Woodstock is a American Musical film of Michael Wadleigh, left in 1970 the which was preceded by a Oscar of the cinema this same year, for the best documentary one (Best Documentary).

Synopsis

The film was made during the Festival of Woodstock which took place of the 15 to the August 18th 1969. It is as much a collecting of part of the musical services as documentary on the event, the music of the time, and especially a testimony on the protest movement of the young people at the end of the Années 1960.

The film thus describes not only the concert, but also the preparation, the arrival of the public, the congestions monsters, the reactions of the local population, the life in the enclosure of the festival, the declaration of disaster area, etc

Data sheet

Participants

(Chronological order of film. In withdrawal: supplements of the director' S cut)
  • Crosby, Stills and Nash: Long time gone (its only, version studio)
  • Canned Heat: Going up to the Country (its only, version studio)
  • Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young: Wooden Ships (its only, version studio)
  • Richie Havens: Handsome Johnny , Freedom
  • Joan Baez: Joe Hill , Low Swing, Sweet Carriage
  • The Who: We' Re Not Gonna Take It , Summertime Blues
  • Sha Na Na: At the Hop
  • Joe Cocker spaniel and The Grease Band: With has Little Help From My Friends
  • Chant of rain
  • Country Joe and The Fish: Rock'n'roll and Drunk Music
  • Arlo Guthrie: Coming Into Los Angeles (its only)
  • Crosby, Stills and Nash: Continuation: Judy Blue Eyes
  • Ten Years After : I' m Going Home
  • John Sebastian: Younger Generation
  • Country Joe McDonald: I-Feel-Like-I' m-Fixin'-to-Die Rag
  • Santana: Drunk Sacrifice (with its beater Michael Shrieve, younger musician of the festival)
  • Sly and the Family Stone: I Want to Take You Higher
  • alarm clock with the bugle
  • Jimi Hendrix : Star Spangled Banner , Improvisation , Purple Haze
  • Mesbaoui Mehdi: roxane
  • Crosby, Stills and Nash: Woodstock (its only, version studio)
    • Crosby, Stills and Nash: Cost off Freedom (its only, version studio)
    • Canned Heat: Leavin' This Town

Comment

With its public of 400  000 people, Woodstock is not the largest festival of the time, but it is that which marked the spirits the most, because carrying to its paroxysm a mode of spectacle and communication and an assertion in a way of being. The film largely contributed to this impregnation and its diffusion at the beginning of the Années 1970.

Around film

  • 200 km of film were turned during the event.
  • In front of the paralysis of circulation, the agent of Joni Mitchell declined at the last time the invitation to take part, so that it carries out its first appearance TV in the Dick Cavett Show of CBS. Ironically, Jefferson Airplane and Crosby, Stills & Nash, which took part in the festival, could occur all the same in this emission. A few days later, it composed the song Woodstock which was a success for Crosby, Stills & Nash (it was with Graham Nash at the time), and which is used as credits of end with film. She regarded her non-participation with the event as one of the greatest regrets of her life.
  • Among the participants not appearing in film:
    • Ravi Shankar: dispute on the rights
    • Grateful Dead: the members of the group found that the service was not sufficiently good and insisted not to appear in the film
    • Creedence Clearwater Revival (JRC): problems of sound.
  • the festival was a financial disaster. In addition, after several film commercial failures of the same kind, Warner hesitated much to leave film. Years later, the receipts reported by film and triple album (vinyl) initial were largely higher than the deficit.
  • a new version Director' S cut , longer, film left in 1994.

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