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Woodstock - 3 Days of Peace & Music (The Director's Cut) |  | Director: Michael Wadleigh
Actors: Joan Baez, Richie Havens, Roger Daltrey, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Rating:  293 reviews
Sales Rank: 12983
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Compilation, Director's Cut, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Rating: R (Restricted)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
DVD Layers: 1
DVD Sides: 2
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 225 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.5 x 0.5
MPN: WARD13549D
ISBN: 0790729350
UPC: 085391354925
EAN: 9780790729350
ASIN: 0790729350
Theatrical Release Date: March 26, 1970
Release Date: March 26, 1997
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 Video Release Date: 06/28/2005 Run time: 225 minutes Rating: R
Amazon.com
The three-day Woodstock music festival in 1969 was the pivotalevent 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
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 The Ultimate Woodstock Experience November 27, 2009
Aaron Mercer
I wasn't born until 15 years after the Woodstock Music Festival and this DVD box set is an excellent way for our younger generation to experience one of the most amazing happenings in the hippie movement.
 Do Not Bother with the Blu Ray November 25, 2009
cfimeiatpap (Peoria, Arizona United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think Kockenlocker "Thrusting Greatness" said it best. The analog VHS is far superior to any of the digital conversions and the Blu Ray is just a copy of the first D/C. A complete waste of material. The sound will pass for those who used to listen to 8 track and still think it is the best format. For the time being anybody who would like the memories seek out analog; the D/C was done out of greed not Love.........
Peace..........
Great Video & Sound quality November 16, 2009
Matteo Rota (Bergamo, Italy)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think that Video Quality and Music Quality are excellent, no doubt! Restoration works are made by really professional people.
Package is containing 4 discs with bonus iron plate with 3D woodstock image. It's something that I didn't like since I want product quality rather that box quality. It's funny to see the external BOX Set like an Hippie Jacket Generation, even my opinion is better to avoid it.
Inside the box there are a few reproduction of memorabilia, not really nice from my point of view.
At the end, my opinion is very positive, I suggest to purchase it, not to forget the great event took 40 years ago but still alive in our generation.
I purchased this DVD set for the CCR clips November 15, 2009
swamper
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
They finely included CCR in this package,but they did not cut them into movie.They are on an extra disc entitled Woodstock:Untold Stories.This disc also includes some great never before seen performances by Santana,Canned Heat,Mountain,Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield.No Blood Sweat And Tears.
For me it was worth buying this set for the Untold Stories Disc,although they did not bother using all the camera shots to make it wide-screen as the movie was done.
Blu-ray NOT NECESSARY!!!! November 9, 2009
Daryl K. Smith (Monsey, NY United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I love the new footage as it is such a joy to see Janis Joplin and Credence and Mountain I must say that buying this 40th Anniversary edition on Blue Ray is a whopping waste of money. A film is only good as its original source and the 16mm film that Woodstock was shot on is so incredibly poor that enhancing on Blue Ray only magnifies the grain and the shoddy essence that previously was fairly unnoticed. So dear souls hoping to UPGRADE your visual anatomy of the Woodstockian world on display may lessen the blow to their mind and their wallet by simply staying with the 40th year anniversary set on regular and NOT Blu ray DVD. The film is what it is and if you havent seen it by now and your not under 30 then you should be ashamed of yourself. A great experience none the less but
repeat viewings will not be on your to do list for sometime to come. God bless us everyone and for pete sake dont take the brown acid.
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