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Miller’s Rebirth opens with the artist flashing national insignias at a speed of 10 images per second—until the Jamaican banner becomes indistinguishable from the Confederate flag. Meanwhile, Miller plays Jimi Hendrix’s Woodstock version of the “Star Spangled Banner,” which devolves the anthem into unrecognizable scratches of sound. Miller describes the montage as “a metaphor for what would happen if all these flags didn’t mean so much...
...Days of Love and Peace Everyone knows about the 1969 Woodstock music festival. Even those who weren't around to attend it can list the performers and their songs. One reason for this collective memory is the Oscar-winning documentary film Woodstock, to which cinematographer David Myers contributed his talented camera work [MILESTONES, Sept. 13]. When the movie came out, TIME gave it enthusiastic praise [April...
...happening all over again. Woodstock, last summer's 'three days of love and peace,' has been re-created in a joyous, volcanic new film that will make those who missed the festival feel as if they were there. Those who actually were 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...
DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work on concert documentaries such as the 1970 Oscar-winning movie Woodstock; in San Francisco. He also worked on such feature films as George Lucas' 1971 futuristic debut THX 1138 and Alan Rudolph's 1977 drama Welcome...
...states. A pupil of Wright's in the 1950s, he became an advocate of organic architecture?designing buildings to blend in with their natural surroundings. DIED. DAVID MYERS, 90, cinematographer best known for his idiosyncratic camera work on concert documentaries such as the 1970 Oscar-winning Woodstock; in San Francisco. He also worked on such feature films as George Lucas' 1971 futuristic debut THX 1138 and Alan Rudolph's 1977 drama Welcome to L.A. Before moving into the rock 'n' roll genre, the New York native was a leader of the 1960s cinema-verit? movement, and traversed the globe...