Woodstock [Director's Cut] [40th Anniversary] [Special Edition] [2 Discs]

Overview

Alfred Music Publishing is the world?s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational reference pop and performance materials for teachers students professionals and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument style and difficulty level.

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 in rock n 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 in an era when the Vietnam War was at its peak and antiwar protest was fully expressed through the liberating music of the time.This two DVD set celebrating the 40th anniversary of the event features a new four hour remastered director s cut and over 3 hours of extras including: A Museum at Bethel Woods: The Story of the Sixties & Woodstock documentary 18 performances by 13 acts that never appeared in any version of the film and interviews of the sights and sounds of the three-day event.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/09/2009
UPC:	0085391176756
Original Release:	1970
Rating:	R
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	3:44:00
Sales rank:	14,214

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Joan Baez	Performer
Arlo Guthrie	Performer
Richie Havens	Performer
Jimi Hendrix	Performer
Joe Cocker	Performer,Actor
Crosby, Stills & Nash	Performer
Jefferson Airplane	Performer
Sha Na Na	Performer
Canned Heat	Performer
Country Joe & the Fish	Performer
Roger Daltrey	Performer
Keith Moon	Performer
Stephen Stills	Performer
Pete Townshend	Performer
John Sebastian	Performer
Janis Joplin	Performer
Country McDonald	Performer
Johnny Winter	Performer
Sly & the Family Stone	Performer
Larry Johnson	Composer
Joni Mitchell	Composer

Technical Credits

Michael Wadleigh	Director
Bob Maurice	Producer
L.A. Johnson	Sound/Sound Designer
Larry Johnson	Sound Editor,Sound/Sound Designer

Editorial Reviews

Woodstock set the standard for all rockumentaries to come. Sensing that the 1969 Woodstock concert would be something more than a mere "happening," director Michael Wadleigh brought along a battalion of cinematographers and assistants. As a result, what could have been an aloof, detached record of the landmark concert is as "up close and personal" as it was possible to get without actually being there. Utilizing widescreen, splitscreen, and stereo-sound technology to the utmost, Wadleigh puts us right in the middle of the 400,000 screaming, mud-caked spectators, then zooms in to loving closeups of the stars. Edited by Martin Scorsese (among many others), the finished product won the 1970 Oscar for Best Documentary -- and was also stamped with an "R" rating due to some innocuous (by modern standards) nudity and profanity. The talent lineup includes Canned Heat, Richie Havens, Country Joe and the Fish, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Santana, David Crosby and Stephen Stills, Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Arlo Guthrie, John Sebastian, Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years After and Sha Na Na. The original 184 minute running time was expanded to 224 minutes for the 1994 video version, featuring previously excised footage of Janis Joplin. One of the best shots in Woodstock has no music at all: the final image, as a group of dour policemen survey the garbage and debris left behind by the Woodstock Naton.