Superb Record of a Decade-Defining Event
If you're a certain age, the word &#34;Woodstock&#34; conjures far more than a place in Ulster County, New York.  Advertised as &#34;The Woodstock Festival of Music and Art,&#34; the monumental event was held from August 15 to 18, 1969, on land belonging to local farmer Max Yasgur.  Many of the era's most popular rock groups and solo performers were signed at huge fees to make the event the biggest rock concert ever held in the United States.<br /><br />&#34;Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace and Music: The Director's Cut -- 40th Anniversary Edition&#34;  is reissued on DVD and new to Blu-ray and features the Michael Wadleigh-directed documentary that captures not only the music, but the cultural phenomenon that would become legendary.  Designed to hopefully attract 50,000 people, Woodstock eventually drew 500,000, mostly young, who came by car, truck, helicopter, or on foot.  Rolling Stone Magazine called the festival one of the &#34;50 Moments That Changed the History of Rock `n' Roll.&#34;<br /><br />Artists included Country Joe McDonald, Santana, The Who, Jefferson Airplane, Canned Heat, Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grateful Dead, Joan Baez, The Band, Janis Joplin, Richie Havens, John Sebastian, and Sly and the Family Stone.  Performance highlights of the three-disc set include Jimi Hendix's &#34;Star Spangled Banner;&#34; Richie Havens' &#34;Freedom;&#34; Sly & the Family Stone's medley of &#34;Dance to the Music,&#34; &#34;Music Lover,&#34; and &#34;I Want to Take You Higher;&#34; and Ten Years After's &#34;I'm Going Home.&#34;<br /><br /> The appeal of the movie is twofold.  As a concert film, it showcases top acts of the era, many at the peak of their popularity.  But it also works as a chronicle of a once-in-a-lifetime happening, as Wadleigh shows us the concertgoers reveling in the atmosphere, excited by the music, making the best of things when rain comes, and even coping with inadequate sanitation facilities.  Their youthful exuberance is captured in the smiling faces, flowered shirts, love beads, long hair and occasional nudity that would scandalize nearby residents.<br /><br />&#34;Woodstock&#34; had an uninspired DVD release in 1997 that disappointed many rock fans and lovers of the movie.  That has been righted with this set, which features 18 never-before-seen-on-film performances, including &#34;One Day at a Time&#34; (Joan Baez), &#34;Flying High&#34; (Country Joe McDonald), &#34;On the Road Again&#34; (Canned Heat), &#34;Born on the Bayou&#34; (Creedence Clearwater Revival), &#34;Mean Town Blues&#34; (Johnny Winter), and &#34;Teen Angel&#34; (Sha Na Na).  Also included is &#34;Woodstock: From Festival to Feature,&#34; a featurette containing interviews with original concertgoers, promoters, crew, and musicians, and a Hugh Hefner interview with director Michael Wadleigh from the 1970's TV show &#34;Playboy After Dark.&#34;<br /><br />Purists might complain about the remastered soundtrack, but if you recall the record album, the sound was far from perfect. The sound on the discs has been cleaned up and is sharper.  The film was shot with a number of different cameras, resulting in differing aspect ratios, but, happily, the 40th Anniversary Edition is uniformly widescreen.<br /><br />Also available is an Ultimate Collector's Edition, with fringed deluxe packaging, containing the material listed above as well as a retrospective featurette, &#34;The Museum at Bethel Woods: The Story of the Sixties and Woodstock,&#34; a 60-page Life Magazine reprint, a Woodstock patch, and a reprint of a concert ticket.
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