Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut)
starring: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald
directed by: Michael Wadleigh
directed by: Michael Wadleigh
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Product Description:
Never before seen performances: canned heat janis joplin crosby stills and nash jefferson airplane and jimi hendrix. With forty-minutes extra footage.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 06/28/2005Run time: 225 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com essential video:
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 Shannon
Amazon.com:
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 Shannon
Product 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
Never before seen performances: canned heat janis joplin crosby stills and nash jefferson airplane and jimi hendrix. With forty-minutes extra footage.Studio: Warner Home VideoRelease Date: 06/28/2005Run time: 225 minutesRating: R
Amazon.com essential video:
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 Shannon
Amazon.com:
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 Shannon
Product 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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Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - The New Remastered Woodstock: Lots Of Pros, Some Cons
I'm going to be as down to the point as I possibly can with this review because ultimately that's what you, the reader, are going to want to know.So here it goes:
PROS OF THIS NEW DVD SET:
1. The picture and sound quality have never looked or sounded better!
2. Great bonus disc with many great, ROCKING, unreleased performances!
3. Amazon offers a second bonus disc with three more performances!
4. The extra features on all three discs are informative ... Read More
Rating: - Serves As Both A Documentary & Concert DVD
As I have seen this many times since it first came out on in the theater and then on VHS, to DVD and now Blu-Ray, I now just fast-forward chapters to the music, enjoying my favorite performances in this epic documentary of the most famous rock concert of all time.
There is a lot to enjoy, including the stuff between the music if you have never seen this before. It certainly captures the wildness of the late 1960s, the good and the bad. It really brings you back to a unique time in American ... Read More
Rating: 
- Worth the cash ...
Yea ... the packaging is cheesy and there are definite limits to the quality of the original source material which will never match what can come from film/video/sound equipment today. In my opinion; however, despite these limitations the blu-ray version of Woodstock is well worth the money.
In short, even though sharpness will never come close to modern high def production values, colors are deeper, richer and the sound track has been punched up and sounds amazing in 5.1. This classic film ... Read More
Rating: 
- Three Days of Fun & Music
I have the original Woodstock album 3 record set that I have loved for years. The music of the time was nothing but fantastic. I was hoping with this 40th Anniversary set that it would all be in order as it should be so you can feel the true experience. Most of the songs I have loved for years are on the new DVD but instead of placing them in order of bands and events the DVD jumps back and forth from one day to another. Ten Years After cuts into the middle of the great performance of Crosby, Still, Nash ... Read More
Rating: 
- Vulgar Behavior
Adults frolicing about in the mud, bathing in the river, and disrobed.Shown at the film night in the Talk of the Town Estates Trailer Park, it elicited the following responses from residents:
Father O' - Should have been a thunder storm with lightning to strike down the sinful exhibit of epidermis.
Bozero - Carlos Santana is strangely welcome, although lacking a tamale pot.
Mother - Purred, "I'd powder those wet buns."
Schlossenbergs - "Would love to charge ... Read More
- The New Remastered Woodstock: Lots Of Pros, Some ConsI'm going to be as down to the point as I possibly can with this review because ultimately that's what you, the reader, are going to want to know.So here it goes:
PROS OF THIS NEW DVD SET:
1. The picture and sound quality have never looked or sounded better!
2. Great bonus disc with many great, ROCKING, unreleased performances!
3. Amazon offers a second bonus disc with three more performances!
4. The extra features on all three discs are informative ... Read More
- Serves As Both A Documentary & Concert DVDAs I have seen this many times since it first came out on in the theater and then on VHS, to DVD and now Blu-Ray, I now just fast-forward chapters to the music, enjoying my favorite performances in this epic documentary of the most famous rock concert of all time.
There is a lot to enjoy, including the stuff between the music if you have never seen this before. It certainly captures the wildness of the late 1960s, the good and the bad. It really brings you back to a unique time in American ... Read More
- Worth the cash ...Yea ... the packaging is cheesy and there are definite limits to the quality of the original source material which will never match what can come from film/video/sound equipment today. In my opinion; however, despite these limitations the blu-ray version of Woodstock is well worth the money.
In short, even though sharpness will never come close to modern high def production values, colors are deeper, richer and the sound track has been punched up and sounds amazing in 5.1. This classic film ... Read More
- Three Days of Fun & MusicI have the original Woodstock album 3 record set that I have loved for years. The music of the time was nothing but fantastic. I was hoping with this 40th Anniversary set that it would all be in order as it should be so you can feel the true experience. Most of the songs I have loved for years are on the new DVD but instead of placing them in order of bands and events the DVD jumps back and forth from one day to another. Ten Years After cuts into the middle of the great performance of Crosby, Still, Nash ... Read More
- Vulgar BehaviorAdults frolicing about in the mud, bathing in the river, and disrobed.Shown at the film night in the Talk of the Town Estates Trailer Park, it elicited the following responses from residents:
Father O' - Should have been a thunder storm with lightning to strike down the sinful exhibit of epidermis.
Bozero - Carlos Santana is strangely welcome, although lacking a tamale pot.
Mother - Purred, "I'd powder those wet buns."
Schlossenbergs - "Would love to charge ... Read More
