Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)

Buy This Item Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut) by Warner Home Video  Available from Amazon  $19.98  on 11-14-2008     The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotal event of the 1960s peace movement, and this landmark concert film is the definitive record of that milestone of rock & roll history. It's more than a chronicle of the hippie movement, however; this is a film of genuine historical and social importance, capturing the spirit of America in transition, when the Vietnam War was at its peak and antiwar protest was fully expressed through the liberating music of the time. With a brilliant crew at his disposal (including a young editor named Martin Scorsese), director Michael Wadleigh worked with over 300 hours of footage to create his original 225-minute director's cut, which was cut by 40 minutes for the film's release in 1970. Eight previously edited segments were restored in 1994, and the original director's cut of Woodstock is now the version most commonly available on videotape and DVD. <P> The film deservedly won the Academy Award for Best Documentary, and it's still a stunning achievement. Abundant footage taken among the massive crowd ("half a million strong") expresses the human heart of the event, from skinny-dipping hippies to accidental overdoses, to unpredictable weather, midconcert childbirth, and the thoughtful (or just plain rambling) reflections of the festive participants. Then, of course, there is the music--a nonstop parade of rock & roll from the greatest performers of the period, including Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Canned Heat, The Who, Richie Havens, Joan Baez, Ten Years After, Sly & The Family Stone, Santana, and many more. Watching this ambitious film, as the saying goes, is the next best thing to being there--it's a time-travel journey to that once-in-a-lifetime event. <I>--Jeff Shannon</I> Reader Reviews I had the privalege to attend the original release in 1970. At the time, as a promotion, Warner Bros. handed out a Woodstock booklet. The movie is a really great look into what the sixties were all about. I have in my possession a booklet "hand-out" that was given out to (I guess) the first so many people to see the movie Woodstock by WB, released in 1970. The book contains pictures, poems, artwork, and by now...history. The book is approx. 8 1/2" x 11", in full color, has 48 pages. Some of the photos contained include Jimi Hendrix, Santana, Country Joe and The Fish, Richie Havens, The Who, Joe Cocker, and others. A couple of the pictures were also used on/in the Woodstock Album of the same era. This book is in excellent condition and has been well cared for for thirty-eight years. Can anyone supply a value for said book? Does anyone have any information to share about this booklet? Thankyou! -Ken

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