Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace Music (The Director's Cut) [VHS] | ![Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace Music (The Director's Cut) [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518ZN8KTKFL._SL160_.jpg) | Director: Michael Wadleigh
Actors: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: Video
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Rating:  57 reviews
Sales Rank: 11196
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Letterboxed, Special Edition, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: English (Unknown)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Media: VHS Tape
Discs: 2
Running Time: 184 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 6303182577
UPC: 085391354932
EAN: 9786303182575
ASIN: 6303182577
Theatrical Release Date: March 26, 1970
Release Date: August 3, 1994
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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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 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.)
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 3 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.
Woodstock February 27, 2010
Danny
Great movie about the time of the late 60`s If only young people would try and understand the story that deals with NO
br /VIOLENCE. Great music
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