Movie | United States | 03/26/1997 | Documentary
WOODSTOCK: THE DIRECTOR'S CUT is Michael Wadleigh's Academy Award-winning documentary about the 1969 Woodstock music festival, with an additional 56 minutes, a freshly remixed soundtrack in an enhanced digital format, and previously unseen footage of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Jefferson Airplane in concert. The original WOODSTOCK, released in 1970, featured memorable performances by Hendrix, Jefferson Airplane, Joan Baez, Crosby, Stills and Nash, Country Joe and the Fish, John Sebastian, Richie Havens, Arlo Guthrie, Joe Cocker, Sly and the Family Stone, Ten Years After, Santana, and The Who, all of which are rendered intact in this extended film. Moreover, the original, which included among its editors a young Martin Scorsese, brilliantly, and often humorously, captured the makeshift community of that end-of-the-60s occasion, whose innocence now looks almost quaint.
