Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut (40th Anniversary Two-Disc Special Edition) |  | Director: Michael Wadleigh
Actors: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: AC-3, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Original recording remastered, Restored, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Discs: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Running Time: 184 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: 085391176756
UPC: 085391176756
EAN: 0085391176756
ASIN: B001NXDSLQ
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Release Date: June 9, 2009
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Product Description
Presents never-before-seen complete performances at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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. 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. --Jeff ShannonProduct Description
1969 was a year unlike any other. Man first set foot on the moon. The New York Mets won the World Series against all odds. 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. One year later, a landmark Oscar®-winning documentary captured the essence of the music, the electricity of the performances, and the experience of those who lived it. Newly remastered, the film features legendary performances by 17 best selling artists. Bonus content includes: • NEW retrospective The Museum at Bethel Woods: The Story of the Sixties & Woodstock. Stills from Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Director's Cut
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 Woodstock 1999? Huh? September 19, 1999
bob (kansas city, missouri USA)
115 out of 140 found this review helpful
Having been in Vietnam in1969 i did not have a chance to actually go to woodstock.I waited almost 30 years before i saw this documentary.This is the kind of experience that one has to open the mind and heart and close off all pre-concieved ideas,prejudices,religious and any and all other ideas and thoughts and just (to quote the hippies)go with your feelings.This was a once in a lifetime experience that will likely never be back again.360,000 young people(and some not quite so young)brought together for three days love,music,drugs and rock and roll.Even disallowing all the illecit drug use(the reference to the "bad acid"(not poisoned)just bad.One can watch this movie and maybe get just a small glimmer of what was occuring those three days.I finished movie and for a good week could not quit thinking about what i had seen and heard.Young girls and boys swimming in a lake naked,people getting rained on and instead of griping and complaining making a game of it! Feeding each other,both physically and spiritually and emotionally and no one getting hurt.My God! Where has this country gone wrong in the last 30 years?Maybe only people from my generation can truly understand what happened then.I am passing this movie around to friends and people at work ,some whom are my age and others much younger and they seem to really get into it(oops another hippie slang-sorry)Watch this movie-if only for your own peace of mind!(Yeah i borrowed part of that last sentence also) P E A C E
This is amazing! July 24, 2001
Cathleen M. Walker (Massachusetts)
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
In a time when music videos have reached epic high-tech proportions twenty-four hours a day with the flick of a switch it was a delightful afternoon for me as I sat back to re-visit a piece of high-life history with the jaundiced eye of the political cynic. I loved this video. I loved the music. Indeed, I studied the undercurrent, with the interest of political science as I've been studying it, in hopes of gaining more insight, and I did. I also had fun, and I'm sure I will have fun every time I watch it. Why is it that everyone looks so YOUNG? (sigh) From Arlo Guthrie to Richie Havens to Joan Baez to Carlos Santana to Janis Joplin to Sly and the Family Stone ah, youth is wasted on the young! And the side interviews and shots of young people wading their way through the crowds, and the over riding theme of peace, love and anti-war...anti-capitalism as well, which more recent Woodstocks have not been able to copy. Woodstock I still has much to teach us, it's not just a walk down memory lane. If you do decide to pick this up, I can only hope you have as much fun with it as I am!
Back to the garden.... July 8, 1999
31 out of 38 found this review helpful
I've seen the Woodstock documentary innumerable times. It's a fantastic look at a once-in-an-eternity event. Two things about it frustrated me however: (1) the sound was awful, and (2) I longed to hear the REST of the music. My fantasy is that they will someday (maybe for the 40th anniversary?) release a marathon 20-tape package of the entire 3-days of music, beginning to end, good or bad! I'd love to hear the whole sets by Santana, Janis, CSN, etc. In the meantime, this greatly improved Director's Cut will do. The sound has been cleaned up, and lots of music (Hendrix's set is a highlight) has been added. A great documentary gets better. Thank you!
The original is great--the director's cut not so March 6, 2005
soundman (Gainesville, Fl)
13 out of 16 found this review helpful
My rating is for the original version. I'd give the "director's cut" 3 stars. I invite all newcomers to the Woodstock experience to compare the original cut (if you can find it--it's not yet on DVD) to the "director's cut." I only ask that you see the original cut first (if possible, more than once). The two together may form a more complete picture of the whole festival, but in my opinion, the original cut is far artistically superior, in regard to its editing, to the "director's cut." One point of reference: note in the original cut how the crowd chanting "no rain" and beating on various objects segues so artfully into Santana's "Soul Sacrifice." (one of the high points of the film for me.) That and many other precious moments are lost in the director's cut. True, the original could have dumped Sha Na Na in favor of more Joplin and Jefferson Airplane, but overall, the cadence and pacing of the original are, in my opinion, far superior to the cut available on DVD. I only hope the original cut becomes available on DVD. In the meantime, I'm going to spring for the VHS version. For those who deplore the sound quality of the original, think of it as a piece of precious history that will never happen again. Consider the time and the available technology and just enjoy the experience.
Spectacular account of the event that deffined the era July 31, 2002
8 out of 10 found this review helpful
No words can describe how wonderfully this film has captured the moment in the event which defined the Hippie Movement, which amazed the world by truley and fully living up to its catch phrase: "Three days of peace, love, and music", and which made those who did not attend wonder what they were thinking.
The music, first and foremost, is truley wonderful. Spectacular performances by CSN, Joe Cocker, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Ten Years After, Richie Havens and so many more. I most especially enjoy watching Joe Cocker's rendition of "With A Little Help From My Friends". His voice and the energy which radiates from him as he performs is truley mesmerizing. And of course who could forget Jimi Hendrix famous performance where he tore up his guitar with his captivating version of the National Anthem. I also love Country Joe's performance of "I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-To-Die-Rag". A wonderful performance, it truley captivates the peace and love of the event as, toward the end of the song he encourages the audience to stand and sing to end the war...and the majority of the 500,000 or so audience members stand and sing along.
But it's not just the music that make's this film wonderful. The film show's the organization of the event, the building of the stage etc... We meet the people who made the event possible. And when the people begin to enter the site without paying for tickets....and the producers realize how much money they've lost...they shrug it off and say that they don't mind because the event and the people loving eachother and sharing everything is such a beautiful thing...and that the money doesn't matter. Do producers of rock concerts (or producers of anything for that matter) ever say that money doesn't matter these days? It truley shows what a wonderful generation it was. The audience is beautiful as well, everyone being themselves, everyone having a good time and sharing the experience that was the last bang (and what a bang it was) for the Hippie Movement.
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