Woodstock

WOODSTOCK (15)

D: Michael Wadleigh

Warner Bros (Bob Maurice)

US 1970

185 mins (director's cut: 224 mins)

Documentary

Ed: Thelma Schoomaker, Michael Wadleigh, Martin Scorsese, Stan Warnow, Yeu-Bun Yee & Jere Huggins 

This Oscar winner for 1970's Best Documentary Feature is a true time portal experience, trimming down three days of the famous concert's footage for a more bitesize three hours (a little more if you watch the director's cut).

The footage captures the hippy counterculture of summer 1969 as thousands of music lovers headed to the festival of love, where acts like Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Joni Mitchell and Jimi Hendrix were on the lineup.

Worth watching simply for the music.

8/10