Woodstock (1970)

WOODSTOCK  (1970)  ¢ ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: Michael Wadleigh
Hippies, pot, bad acid, Richie Havens, Canned Heat, Crosby, Stills & Nash, rain, mud, Joan Baez, The Who, Sha Na Na, dancing, skinny-dipping, yoga, Joe Cocker, Ten Years After, Country Joe & the Fish, telephones, garbage, more pot, Arlo, Janis, Jimi, Sly & the Family Stone, helicopters, traffic jams, babies, portable toilets, Wavy Gravy, Bill Graham, Jerry Garcia and more pot. An Oscar-winning documentary about an indelible cultural moment - the now-legendary three-day music festival held in 1969 in Upstate New York, where a who's who of period rock-&-roll acts serenaded a crowd estimated at half a million people. The restored director's cut runs four hours, including an "interfuckingmission," and if you watch the whole thing straight through, you could feel like you survived the festival yourself. A title at the end scrolls through the names of counterculture figures who have died since the festival took place. It's a long list, and growing.