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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. [6][7] The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh in his directional debut. Seven editors are credited, including Thelma Schoonmaker, Martin Scorsese, and Wadleigh.
Woodstock: Directed by Michael Wadleigh. With Richie Havens, Joan Baez, The Who, Sha-Na-Na. Oscar-winning musical chronicle that brilliantly captures the three-day rock concert and celebration of peace and love that became a capstone for the Sixties.
The film records the events of the Woodstock Music and Art Fair, held for three days near Bethel, New York in August 1969. This features the participating performers and the reactions of residents of the community and of the 400,000 young people who attended.
Mar 24, 1970 · And for three days in the rural town of Bethel, New York, half a million people experienced the single most defining moment of their generation; a concert unprecedented in scope and influence, a coming together of people from all walks of life with a single common goal: Peace and music. They called it Woodstock.
Woodstock (1969) is both an epic concert film and a documentary snapshot of a social culture. The Woodstock Music & Art Festival, promoted as "3 days of peace and music," was intended to take place at Woodstock, New York in the summer of 1969 and the name stuck even after the city turned them away.
Michael Wadleigh’s “Woodstock” is an archeological study of that nation, which existed for three days a year ago. Because of this movie, the Woodstock state of mind now has its own history, folklore, myth. In terms of evoking the style and feel of a mass historical event, “Woodstock” may be the best documentary ever made in America.
Overview. An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse ...
Woodstock is one of the greatest spectacles and social experiments ever caught on film. Several hundred thousand people overtook a small sleepy farm (then town) in upstate New York for a weekend in August, catching most everyone off guard by the size of the turnout.
Woodstock serves as an important documentary as well as concert film. It tells the story of a festival that starts quite small with an estimated number of 50,000 visitors per day, a wooden stage, little security and almost no parking spots. But the festival is soon overrun by a huge crowd of...
Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York.
