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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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. --iJeff Shannon/ipbProduct Description/bbr1969 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: bull; NEW retrospective The Museum at Bethel Woods: The Story of the Sixties Woodstock.pspan class="h1"strongStills from emWoodstock: 3 Days of Peace Music Director's Cut/em/strong/spanspan class="h1"strong/strong/span table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" width="100%" p/p p/p tbody tr align="center" valign="top" tdaimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_1sm.jpg" //td tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_2sm.jpg" //td tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_3sm.jpg" //td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_4sm.jpg" style="float: right;" //td td style="width: 100px;"br / /td tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_5sm.jpg" style="float: left;" //td /tr /tbody /table /p
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Presents never-before-seen complete performances at the 1969 Woodstock Festival.
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 "I see we meet again!" August 17, 2010
take403
I'm sure many of you would like to see some of the extra footage on the box set and I am one of them. But in the meantime, this will do. I recommend this one to the people who can't afford to just go and buy one of those ultra-rare "got-it-all" type boxes on a whim! This was a Christmas present from one of my favorite co-workers and much appreciated at that. Ok, enough of the personal chatter and on with the review.
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br /It all begins with the Warner Bros. logo aflame to the feedback of Jimi Hendrix (whose performance we'll save for the end) and a cheerful tavern owner nearby the grounds who just witnessed some of the fans who helped bolster his business for the weekend. You get to see the setting up of the festival (no small task). Richie Havens was the 1st live performer (his set was 3 hours long but only "Handsome Johnny" and "Freedom" survived the film), though his songs aren't the 1st you'll hear in the movie. Extra footage includes Janis Joplin, Canned Heat and Jefferson Airplane (I always thought until this footage was released Grace's "Morning, people!" was from "Volunteers"). Joan Baez sings "Joe Hill" and "Swing Low Sweet Chariot." Footage includes a rainstorm and a mudbath to follow (careful- you may catch yourself joining in on the "Whoa-oh-oh, whoa-oh!" chorus), Chip Monck's announcement that it's a free concert (after a few freeloaders break the fence), yoga, a few disgruntled neighbors, breakfast in bed (with gravelly voice Wavy Gravy doing the announcement), taking a bath in the lake, kids calling their parents and of course, the benediction of Max Yasgur who generously loaned his farm out. The Who perform Tommy (yet all we see and hear is "See Me Feel Me," "Summertime Blues" and Pete's guitar destruction finale, Joe Cocker passionately sings (and screams) "With A Little Help From My Friends." Ten Years After sings "I'm Going Home" (it's fun to watch the bass player exhort the audience to clap their hands and the drummer looks amused, not to mention Alvin Lee's untimely gathering of the gifted watermelon). One of Santana's 1st performances ever is stellar (Carlos looks very young), Country Joe McDonald sings the acoustic "Fixin' To Die" (complete with the bouncing ball for singalong purposes) and the electric (with his band the Fish) "Rock And Soul Music" (this song was supposedly written for the festival) and Arlo Guthrie sings "Comin' Into Los Angeles." John Sebastian forgets the words to "Younger Generation" (he wasn't exactly a happy camper at this time), Sly and the Family Stone perform an amazing rendition of "Let Me Take You Higher" and "Music Lover" (Sly exhorts the audience to sing "Higher" and hold up the quintessential peace sign). Sha Na Na (the 2nd to last performers) play one of the 1st ever gigs (many have said this wasn't their favorite, but like it or not, it probably helped them get their own TV show a few years later), Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young perform the 2nd time ever live. And of course, Jimi Hendrix wraps up the concert with "Voodoo Chile," "The Star Spangled Banner," "Purple Haze" and "Villanova Junction."
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br /If you haven't seen this movie ever, see this version (I must add, you can hear a piano during "I'm Going Home" in the mix). Peace out!
 What a long weekendit was. July 25, 2010
Mr. C. J. Hill (Australia)
Any film recollection of those wonderful three days back then is a gift to keep and cherish.
WOODSTOCK! July 23, 2010
Glenn R. Smith (CITRUS COUNTY, FL)
NO! I didn't go to Woodstock!
br /So there!
br /I'm not gonna be one of the millions! who claim they were there.
br /If all the people were there who claim they were there the crowd would have numbered 20,000,000!
br /A great event and great music!
br /Long live 1969!
br /(I graduated high school that year!)
br /Long Live "The WHO!"
 WOODSUCK ! June 28, 2010
Private Dick (midwest, U.S.)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was thinking of buying this item, but after reading the reviews, and finding out just what is NOT included in it, I said SKIP it!! All the other bands that did not make it to the previous versions are NOT on here. I guess in order to see them you have to have a BLU-RAY player, which I don`t have, and in these tight times, do not plan to get.(In my opinion BLU-RAY is a waste of money, once you get used to it, you would`nt want to go back to standard, so your hooked on it and its higher prices). This is a NOT SO SPECIAL EDITION. How many years will it take before the regular people can have the full version. Maybe I`ll get the 50th anniversary version! PASSSSS! "Hey You, Get Off Those Towers"
The Woodstock Myth March 14, 2010
drkhimxz (Freehold, NJ, USA)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Barring the emergence of some unknown auteur who was able to organize the filming of every moment of the experience from a hundred different angles, then brilliantly organize the result into a never boring thirty hour film, this is probably the best we are going to get by way of a visualization of the event which has reached mythic dimensions, The Woodstock Myth. With brevity, it is the story of how young people from all over the country came together for three days, peaceably assembled , existing as a self-sufficient commune, practicing the ways of the new counter-culture, together with like-minded and supportive musicians, to show the world that The Good, The True and The Beautiful could be made actual even in the brutal, repressive, exploitative world to which the counterculture was a challenge. Much supportive evidence is manifest in the photographed behavior and interviews with participants, as well residents, of nearby Woodstock and environs.
br /I would venture another interpretation that would, I believe, provide a more solid cognitive foundation for understanding what went on in these three days (in addition to much fine music, not including the efforts of a Woodstock resident who fled his home in the area to avoid the event (Bob Dylan). What I see in this film, suggested not clearly and forcefully exposed, is a large group of mostly middle class young people coming together to do their thing while wrapped in a cocoon of army, law-enforcement agencies, local and area "civilians" and a whole panoply of efforts by the "older folk", despite not understanding that "the times they are a-changing". What do I mean....briefly:
br /All normal laws applicable to their drug possession and use were suspended, all local ordinances regarding public behavior and dress and health facilities were suspended, major life saving medical assistance was provided by the military and other branches of government, public officials and charitable local citizens provided most of the food which they ate, property laws later enforced rigorously at Rock Festivals (a price for admission, respect for the property of the surrounding area and of the promoters) were suspended, including, at an anticipated heavy financial loss to promoters, allowing non-paying individuals to tear down the peripheral fences so as to attend free of charge, when others had purchased tickets. Traffic direction on a very expensive scale and many other routines of life were carried on at no financial cost or burden to participants. Finally, but sufficient unto this report, there are the pictures and interviews suggesting (though inadequate to do more than create a hypothesis for further testing) that Daddy and Mommy stood ready, whatever the circumstances in which their "kids" found themselves, once more to embrace them and support them financially and, perhaps emotionally, to whatever extent needed.
br /Further research, if possible, would show the later cost to life and limb, and human happiness, of the kind of behavior to which they were allowed full rein at Woodstock. Of those performing, Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix are shocking examples of the cost of the road once taken, performers paid an enormous personal price of which we are probably not fully aware. For the audience, anecdotal evidence exists in what one knows personally about some participants; the full cost in physical, mental and social terms, will probably never be known.
br /On the other hand, the social interaction, the sex, the drugs, the contagion of crowd impulses, and the music with often charismatic performers, certainly provided many with some relief from the desperate fear of the men, generated by the risk they faced of having to engage in the dreadful experience of military conflict, relief also was provided both male and female, to the angst of youth and the knowledge they possessed that, despite the enormous wealth with which they were surrounded, social inequities and dehumanization occurring throughout the world.
br /Certainly, this documentary can be recommended highly despite the brief sampling from each of the musician's sets.
br /Just how one may interpret the myth so eagerly propagated by participants as manifest in the film, is a matter for each viewer to judge. There will be many, of course, who seek only to hear the music; there is plenty of that although not as much as one would like.
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