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Woodstock is a 1970 American documentary film of the watershed counterculture Woodstock Festival which took place in August 1969 near Bethel, New York. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh in his directional debut.
The film features a conversation between a ten year old and his Grandfather, a Holocaust survivor. 2018 United States Who Will Write Our History: Roberta Grossman: 2018 Germany Der Letzte Jollyboy: Hans-Erich Viet 2018 United States Operation Finale: Chris Weitz
Woodstock was initiated through the efforts of Michael Lang, Artie Kornfeld, Joel Rosenman, and John P. Roberts. [21] [22] Roberts and Rosenman financed the project. [21]Lang had some experience as a promoter, having co-organized the Miami Pop Festival on the East Coast the previous year, where an estimated 25,000 people attended the two-day event.
Like, did you want this movie to be connecting to a younger audience? Thompson: So the thing is, is that, you know, the No. 1 question was who's coming to see it.
Today (July 23) marks the 22nd anniversary of Woodstock ‘99 festival, and a new HBO documentary fittingly titled “Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage” takes audiences back to the violence ...
In August 1994, twenty-four years after its original showing, a 228-minute "director's cut" of Woodstock was released, and in 1999, another Woodstock-based documentary, Jimi Hendrix: Live at Woodstock, gave Wadleigh another archive footage credit for cinematography.
Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert and a Life is a memoir describing the origins of the 1969 Woodstock Festival by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte. It was published in 2007 by Square One Publishers, Inc. , and was adapted into a film of the same name by James Schamus , Ang Lee's long time writing/producing partner.
In an effort to recreate the “peace and love” vibes of the iconic 1969 Woodstock music festival, concert organizers chose to celebrate the event’s 30th anniversary with Woodstock ’99.