Woodstock (film)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Woodstock - 3 days of love and music |
| Original title | Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1970 |
| length | 184 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 12 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Michael Wadleigh |
| script | Michael Wadleigh |
| production | Bob Maurice |
| music | See table |
| camera |
Malcolm Hart Don Lenzer Michael Margetts David Myers Chris Pearce Michael Wadleigh Al Wertheimer |
| cut |
Jere Huggins Thelma Schoonmaker Martin Scorsese Michael Wadleigh Stanley Warnow Yeu-Bun Yee Hubert C. de la Bouillerie |
| occupation | |
Woodstock is a documentary about the Woodstock Festival . Over 20 cameramen produced over 100 hours of color film material at the festival. A three-hour widescreen film was cut from this material . The split-screen technology is remarkable , with which up to three perspectives were sometimes mounted side by side. The festival itself was a financial disaster, but the box office made up a large part of the loss, bringing in around $ 5 million in just 18 weeks.
Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music
In terms of content, the film is a mixture of performances by the musicians and a documentary with many interviews . For the 25th anniversary of the Oscar-winning work, a version of the film extended by around 40 minutes was released. Directed by Michael Wadleigh , the film describes one of the high points in the history of pop culture . The documentary shows, among other things, the scandalous interpretation of the US national anthem by Jimi Hendrix as well as numerous stars and bands such as Janis Joplin , Joe Cocker , Carlos Santana , Sly & the Family Stone , Ten Years After and The Who .
| number | Interpreter | title |
|---|---|---|
| 1.* | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | Long time gone |
| 2. * | Canned heat | Going up the country |
| 3. * | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | Wooden Ships ** |
| 4th | Richie Havens | Handsome Johnny ** |
| 5. | Freedom / Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child | |
| 6th | Canned heat | A change is gonna come ** |
| 7th | Joan Baez | Joe Hill |
| 8th. | Swing Low Sweet Chariot | |
| 9. | The Who | See Me, Feel Me / Listening to You |
| 10. | Summertime Blues | |
| 11. | Sha Na Na | At the hop |
| 12. | Joe Cocker and the Grease Band | With a Little Help from My Friends |
| 13. | audience | Crowd Rain Chant |
| 14th | Country Joe and the Fish | Rock and Soul Music ** |
| 15th | Arlo Guthrie | Coming into Los Angeles |
| 16. | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | Suite: Judy Blue Eyes |
| 17th | Ten Years After | I am going home |
| 18th | Jefferson Airplane | Saturday Afternoon / Won't You Try ** |
| 19th | Uncle Sam's Blues ** | |
| 20th | John Sebastian | Younger generation |
| 21st | Country Joe McDonald | I-Feel-Like-I'm-Fixin'-to-Die Rag |
| 22nd | Santana | Soul sacrifice |
| 23. | Sly & the Family Stone | I want to take you higher |
| 24. | Janis Joplin | Work me, Lord ** |
| 25th | Jimi Hendrix | Voodoo Child (Slight Return) ** |
| 26th | The star-spangled banner | |
| 27. | Purple Haze & Instrumental Solo | |
| 28. * | Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young | Woodstock |
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*) Opening credits or closing credits (no stage appearance) |
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Reviews and awards
“The monumental event, like the film and the soundtrack, became a symbol of a self-confident counterculture, which by then had already passed its climax. As a musical and historical document, it is rousing and extremely informative, even if the miserable and superfluous German synchronization significantly affects the atmospheric density. "
"With the help of reports and interviews, the marginal phenomena of the mass event are glossed over and, together with the performances of famous pop bands, provide a document of the mentality of the generation under 30 that is well worth seeing."
- Won
- 1971: Oscar for Bob Maurice in the category “ Best Documentary ”.
- Nominations
- 1971: Thelma Schoonmaker in the " Best Editing " category
- 1971: Dan Wallin, Larry Johnson in the " Best Sound " category
Others
- The Norwegian music group Titanic with the British singer Roy Robinson was used by the film company to promote the film on the French Mediterranean beaches. They were allowed to appear as a band at the Cannes Film Festival before the screening of the film.
- Some of the unused footage was released in 1990 under the title Woodstock - The Lost Performances .
- In 1996 it was accepted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress (USA) as a film that is particularly worth preserving.
Web links
- Woodstock in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Woodstock - Director's Cut on filmzentrale.com - Film review
- Woodstock atrotten tomatoes(English)
- Woodstock (1970) ( Memento from June 28, 2001 on the Internet Archive ) on 4waysite.com - film review (English)
- Werner Theurich: Legendary festivals When rock'n'roll blew up in: Der Spiegel . dated March 25, 2008 (background information)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jennifer Rosenberg: The Woodstock Festival of 1969 at history1900s.about.com, accessed May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Woodstock - Details ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on arte.tv, accessed on May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Woodstock: Three days of Peace & Music - the Director's cut on Cinema.de, accessed on May 25, 2014.
- ^ Various - Woodstock - Music From The Original Soundtrack And More on discogs.com, accessed May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Woodstock on allmusic.com, accessed May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Woodstock. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 14, 2017 .
- ↑ Evangelischer Presseverband Munich, Review No. 374/1970.
- ^ The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners - Documentary (Feature) on oscars.org, accessed May 25, 2014.
- ^ The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners - Film Editing at oscars.org, accessed May 25, 2014.
- ^ The 43rd Academy Awards (1971) Nominees and Winners - Sound on oscars.org, accessed May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Titanic before ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on titanic-rock.com, accessed May 25, 2014.
- ↑ Tag Archives: National Film Registry at intermediaries.wordpress.com, accessed May 25, 2014.
