Word: wadleigh
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...weekends later, about a half-million people attended, or tried to attend, the Woodstock music festival - three days of peace, love and music that still stand as an emblem for all that was groovy and messy about the late '60s. In anticipation of the concert's 40th anniversary, Michael Wadleigh's Woodstock documentary was released in a director's cut on DVD and Blu-ray. And on Aug. 14, a day before the exact anniversary, Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock opened in U.S. theaters, although it had its world premiere weeks prior at Cannes. (See the top 10 Cannes Film...
...going on down to Wadleigh's film I'm going to have a cinematic blast Where the music lives tho it's from the past And the film...
...there will see it even more intimately. But Woodstock is far more than a sound-and-light souvenir of a long weekend concert. Purely as a piece of cinema, it is one of the finest documentaries ever made in the U.S. ... It is no small tribute to [director Michael] Wadleigh's dexterity that the film's three-hour running time passes with the mesmerizing speed of a Jimi Hendrix guitar solo ... Woodstock's most obvious attraction is the music, and rock has never sounded?or looked?better than it does in the movie. 'Hold on to your neighbor,' says...