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Woodstock (film)

Woodstock is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
documentary on the Woodstock Festival

Woodstock Festival

Woodstock was a music festival, billed as An Aquarian Exposition, held at Max Yasgur's 600 acre dairy farm in the rural town of Bethel, New York from August 15 to August 18, 1969....
that took place in August 1969

1969 in music

EventsPerhaps the two most famous musical events of 1969 were concerts. At a Rolling Stones concert in Altamont, California, a fan was stabbed to death by Hells Angels, a biker gang that had been hired to provide security for the event....
at Bethel

Bethel, New York

Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,362 at the 2000 census but Bethel experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2007....
in New York

New York

The State of New York is a U.S. state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States and is the nation's List of U.S....
. The film was directed by Michael Wadleigh

Michael Wadleigh

Michael Wadleigh is an United States movie director and cinematographer renowned for his groundbreaking documentary film of the 1969 Woodstock Festival, Woodstock ....
and was edited by (amongst others) Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese

Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese is an Academy Award-winning American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and film historian. Also affectionately known as "Marty", he is the founder of the World Cinema Foundation and a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won awards from the Gol...
and Thelma Schoonmaker

Thelma Schoonmaker

Thelma Schoonmaker is an American three-time Academy Awards-winning film editor who has worked with Film director Martin Scorsese for over thirty-five years....
; Schoonmaker was nominated for an Academy Award for Film Editing

Academy Award for Film Editing

The Academy Award for Film Editing was first given for films issued in 1934. The name of this award is occasionally changed; in 2008, it was listed as the Academy Award for Achievement in Film Editing....
. It received the Academy Award for Documentary Feature

Academy Award for Documentary Feature

The Academy Awards for Documentary Feature is among the most prestigious awards for documentary films....
, as well as a nomination for Best Sound. The Official Director's Cut, spanning 225 minutes, was released in 1994. There is also a solo DVD release of Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
. occasionally airs the Director's Cut version of the documentary.

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Woodstock is a 1970

1970 in film

The year 1970 in film involved some significant events....
documentary on the Woodstock Festival

Woodstock Festival

1969 in music

Bethel, New York

Bethel is a town in Sullivan County, New York, New York, United States. The population was 4,362 at the 2000 census but Bethel experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2007....
in New York

New York

Michael Wadleigh

Martin Scorsese

Thelma Schoonmaker

Academy Award for Film Editing

Academy Award for Documentary Feature

Jimi Hendrix

National Film Registry

The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress....
by the Library of Congress

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the de facto national library of the United States and the research arm of the United States Congress. Located in three buildings in Washington, D.C., it is the largest library in the world by shelf space and holds the largest number of books....
as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The DVD

New DVD and Blu-ray versions of Woodstock: The Director's Cut are scheduled for release by Warner Home Video on July 28, 2009. The "Ultimate Collector’s Edition" reportedly includes an hour of performances not seen in the film, or not seen in full. Director Michael Wadleigh is overseeing the release, Warner said. Robert Klein

Robert Klein

Robert Klein is an United States stand-up comedian and actor....
's documentary The '60s and the Woodstock Generation will be among the extra features. "Woodstock" is being restored and remastered for the release. The previous DVD dates back to 1997, with reviewers on Amazon

Amazon

Amazon or Amazons may refer to:* Amazons, members of a legendary nation of female warriors in Greek mythology** Dahomey Amazons, an all-female regiment of the African kingdom of Dahomey...
complaining of its VHS-like quality.

Artists by appearance

No.	Group / Singer	Title
1.*	Crosby, Stills & Nash	"Long Time Gone"
2.*	Canned Heat Canned Heat Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists....	"Going Up the Country"
3.*	Crosby, Stills & Nash	"Wooden Ships"
4.	Richie Havens Richie Havens Richie Havens is an United States folk music singer and guitarist. Havens is perhaps best known for his intense rhythmic guitar style, soulful cover version of pop music and folk music songs and his opening performance at the Woodstock Festival....	"Handsome Johnny"
5.		"Freedom" / "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child"
6.	Canned Heat Canned Heat Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists....	"A Change Is Gonna Come" **
7.	Joan Baez Joan Baez Joan Chandos Baez is a Mexican-United States folk singer and songwriter known for her highly individual vocal style. Many of her songs are Topical song and deal with social issues....	"Joe Hill"
8.		"Swing Low Sweet Chariot"
9.	The Who The Who The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....	"We're Not Gonna Take It" / "See Me, Feel Me See Me, Feel Me "See Me, Feel Me" is a portion of the song "We're Not Gonna Take It" written by Pete Townshend of The Who. The song is the finale of the Tommy album.... "
10.		"Summertime Blues Summertime Blues "Summertime Blues" is a song by Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart about the trials and tribulations of Adolescence life in United States.It was written in the late 1950s by Eddie Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart.... "
11.	Sha-Na-Na	"At the Hop"
12.	Joe Cocker Joe Cocker John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE is an England rock /blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty human voice and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles.... and the Grease Band	"With a Little Help from My Friends With a Little Help from My Friends "With a Little Help from My Friends" is a song written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, released on The Beatles album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band in 1967.... "
13.		"Crowd Rain Chant"
14.	Country Joe and the Fish Country Joe and the Fish Country Joe and the Fish was a rock music band most widely known for musical protests against the Vietnam War, from 1966 to 1971....	"Rock and Soul Music"
15.	Arlo Guthrie Arlo Guthrie Arlo Davy Guthrie is an United States folk music singer. Like his father, Woody Guthrie, Arlo often sings protest song against social injustice....	"Coming Into Los Angeles"
16.	Crosby, Stills & Nash	"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes Suite: Judy Blue Eyes "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes" is a suite of short songs written by Stephen Stills and performed by Crosby, Stills & Nash . It appeared on the group's self-titled debut album in 1969.... "
17.	Ten Years After Ten Years After Ten Years After are an England blues rock musical ensemble, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s....	"I'm Going Home"
18.	Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Airplane Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....	"Saturday Afternoon" / "Won't You Try" **
19.		"Uncle Sam's Blues" **
20.	John Sebastian John Sebastian John Sebastian is an United States songwriter and harmonica player. He is best known as a founder of The Lovin' Spoonful, a band inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2000....	"Younger Generation"
21.	Country Joe McDonald Country Joe McDonald Country Joe McDonald was the leader and lead singer of the 1960s psychedelic rock group Country Joe & the Fish.He started his career busking on Berkeley, California's famous Telegraph Avenue in the early 1960s....	"FISH Cheer / Feel-Like-I'm-Fixing-to-Die-Rag"
22.	Santana Santana (band) Santana is a flexible number of musicians accompanying Carlos Santana since the late 1960s. Just like Santana himself, the band is known for helping make Latin rock famous in the rest of the world....	"Soul Sacrifice"
23.	Sly and the Family Stone	"Dance To The Music Dance to the Music Dance to the Music can refer to one of the following:Dance to the Music , a 1968 album by Sly & the Family Stone"Dance to the Music ", a 1968 hit single from said album.... " / "I Want To Take You Higher I Want to Take You Higher "I Want to Take You Higher*" is a 1969 song by the soul music/rock music/funk music band Sly & the Family Stone, the b-side to their Top 30 hit Stand! ".... "
24.	Janis Joplin Janis Joplin Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....	"Work Me, Lord" **
25.	Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....	"Voodoo Child (Slight Return) Voodoo Child (Slight Return) "Voodoo Child " is the last track on the third and final album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland. The song is known for its wah wah pedal-heavy guitar work.... " (credited as "Voodoo Chile Voodoo Chile "Voodoo Chile" is a song by The Jimi Hendrix Experience from the album Electric Ladyland. Recorded on May 2, 1968 at the Record Plant Studios in New York City, the recording session included Mitch Mitchell, drummer of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Steve Winwood of Traffic on Hammond B3 organ, and Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane on Bass... " in the film) **
26.		"The Star-Spangled Banner The Star-Spangled Banner "The Star-Spangled Banner" is the national anthem of the United States of America. The lyrics come from a poem written in 1814 by then 35-year-old amateur poet Francis Scott Key who wrote "Defence of Fort McHenry" after seeing the bombardment of Fort McHenry at Baltimore, Maryland, Maryland, by Royal Navy ships in the Chesapeake Bay during th... "
27.		"Purple Haze Purple Haze "Purple Haze" is a song written in 1966 in music and recorded in 1967 in music by The Jimi Hendrix Experience and released as a single in both the United Kingdom and the United States.... "
28.		"Woodstock Improvisation" **
29.		"Villanova Junction"
30.*	Crosby, Stills & Nash	"Woodstock Woodstock (song) "Woodstock" is a song about the Woodstock Festival of 1969.Joni Mitchell wrote the song from what she had heard from then-boyfriend, Graham Nash, about the festival.... " / "Find the Cost of Freedom"

*) opening and final credits (no stage performance)
**) not in the original version, only in the directors cut

Artists omitted

Sweetwater
Sweetwater (band)

Sweetwater was a rock and roll band best known as the first group scheduled to play at the Woodstock Festival in 1969, although they eventually were the fifth act to go on....
Incredible String Band
Incredible String Band

The Incredible String Band were a psych folk band formed in Scotland in 1965. The band built a considerable following, especially within United Kingdom Counterculture of the 1960s before splitting up in 1974....
Bert Sommer
Bert Sommer

Bert Sommer was a folk singer who performed at Woodstock in 1969 and had a hit with the song "We're All Playing In The Same Band." He was briefly a member of baroque-pop group the Left Banke, co-writing and singing lead on the "Ivy Ivy"/"And Suddenly" single....
Tim Hardin
Tim Hardin

Timothy James Hardin was an United States folk music musician and composer. He is best remembered for writing the top 40 hits "If I Were a Carpenter" covered by Bobby Darin and "Reason to Believe" covered by Rod Stewart, as well as his own uneven recording career....
Ravi Shankar
Ravi Shankar

Pandit Ravi Shankar is a Bengali people Indian sitar player and composer. He is a disciple of Allauddin Khan, the founder of the Maihar gharana of Hindustani classical music....
*
Melanie
Melanie Safka

Melanie Anne Safka-Schekeryk is an United States singer-songwriter.Usually known professionally as Melanie, she is best known for her hits "Brand New Key", "Lay Down " and "What They Done To My Song Ma"....
Quill
Quill (band)

For the metal band, see The Quill Quill was a popular Northeast United States band that played extensively throughout New England and New York in the late 1960s and that gained national attention by performing at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969....
Keef Hartley
Mountain
Mountain (band)

Mountain is an United States rock music Band . The band broke up in 1972, reformed two years later, and have since reconvened and resumed performing and recording....
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of Rock music, Folk music, bluegrass music, blues, reggae, country music, jazz, Psychedelic rock, space rock and gospel music?and for live performances of long musical improvisati...
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Creedence Clearwater Revival

Creedence Clearwater Revival was an United States rock and roll band who gained popularity in the late 1960s and early 1970s with a number of successful singles drawn from various Studio album....
The Band
The Band

The Band was a rock music group active from 1967 to 1976 and again from 1983 to 1999. The original group consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson ; Richard Manuel ; Garth Hudson ; and Rick Danko , and one American, Levon Helm ....
Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears is an United States music group, originally formed in 1967 in New York City. Since its beginnings in 1967, the band has gone through numerous iterations with varying personnel and has encompassed a multitude of musical styles....
Johnny
Johnny Winter

John Dawson "Johnny" Winter III is an United States blues guitarist, Vocalist and Record producer.Johnny and Edgar Winter were nurtured at an early age by their parents in their musical pursuits....
and Edgar Winter
Edgar Winter

Edgar Holland Winter is an American musician who had significant success in the 1970s and 1980s. Edgar is a multi-instrumentalist, performing on the keyboards, and as a vocalist, saxophonist and percussionist, well-versed in jazz, blues and rock music....
Paul Butterfield

* Featured in Monterey Pop
Monterey Pop

Monterey Pop is a 1968 in film concert film by D.A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey Pop Festival of 1967 in music. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert and David Maysles....

Director's cut

In 1994 a director's cut

Director's cut

A director's cut is a specially film editing version of a film, and less often television program, music video, Television advertisement or video games, that is supposed to represent the film director's own approved edit....
(subtitled 3 Days of Peace & Music) was released that added over 40 minutes to the film and included performances by Canned Heat

Canned Heat

Canned Heat is a blues-rock/boogie band that formed in Los Angeles in 1965. The group has been noted for its own interpretations of blues material as well as for efforts to promote the interest in this type of music and its original artists....
, Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane

Jefferson Airplane was an United States rock music band formed in San Francisco, California in 1965. A pioneer of the psychedelic rock movement, Jefferson Airplane was the first band from the San Francisco scene to achieve mainstream commercial and critical success....
and Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin was an United States singer, songwriter, and music arranger, from Port Arthur, Texas. She rose to prominence in the late 1960s as the lead singer of Big Brother and the Holding Company, and later as a solo artist....
that were omitted from the original release. Jimi Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
's set at the end of the film was also extended with two additional numbers. Some of the crowd scenes in the original film were replaced by previously unseen footage.

After the closing credits

Closing credits

Closing credits or end credits are added at the end of a motion picture or television program to list the Cast member and Film crew involved in the production....
(to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

Crosby, Stills & Nash (and Young)

Crosby, Stills & Nash are a folk rock/rock and roll Supergroup made up of David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash, also known as Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young when joined by occasional fourth member Neil Young....
's "Find the Cost of Freedom") a list of prominent people from the "Woodstock Generation" who had died is shown, including John F. Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States, serving from 1961 until John F....
, Malcolm X

Malcolm X

Malcolm X , also known as Hajji Malik El-Shabazz , was an African American Muslim minister, public speaker, and human rights activist. To his admirers, he was a courageous advocate for the rights of African Americans, a man who indicted white America in the harshest terms for its crimes against black Americans....
, Che Guevara

Che Guevara

Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentina Marxism revolutionary, politician, author, physician, military theorist, and guerrilla leader....
, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther King, Jr. was an United States pastor, activist and prominent leader in the African-American African-American Civil Rights Movement ....
, Mama Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot

Cass Elliot , born Ellen Naomi Cohen, was a noted United States singer, best remembered as Mama Cass of the pop quartet The Mamas & the Papas....
, Jim Morrison

Jim Morrison

James Douglas Morrison was an United States singer, songwriter, poet, writer and film maker. He is best known as the lead singer and lyricist of The Doors and is widely considered to be one of the most charismatic Lead singers in rock music history....
, John Lennon

John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon, Order of the British Empire was an English Rock music musician, singer, songwriter, artist, and peace activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founding members of The Beatles....
, Max Yasgur

Max Yasgur

Max B. Yasgur was an United States farmer, best known as the owner of the dairy in Bethel, New York at which the Woodstock Festival was held between August 15 and August 18, 1969....
, Abbie Hoffman

Abbie Hoffman

Abbot Howard "Abbie" Hoffman was a social and political activism in the United States who co-founded the Youth International Party . Later he became a fugitive from the law, living under an alias and working as an enviromentalist following a conviction for dealing cocaine....
, Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield

Paul Butterfield was an United States blues vocalist, harmonica player who gained international recognition in part, as one of the early acts performing during the Summer of Love, in Woodstock, New York....
, Keith Moon

Keith Moon

Keith John Moon was the drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained notoriety for exuberant drumming and his destructive lifestyle. Moon joined The Who in 1964, replacing Doug Sandom....
, Bob Hite

Bob Hite

Bob "The Bear" Hite was the lead singer of blues-rock band Canned Heat from 1965 to 1981.As a young man he acquired a job in a record and musical instrument store called Rancho Music on Westwood Blvd., just north of Pico....
, Richard Manuel

Richard Manuel

Richard George Manuel was a Canada composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist, best known for his contributions and membership in The Band....
, Janis Joplin

Janis Joplin

Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer and songwriter whose guitar playing continues to be a considerable influence on rock music....
. It ends with the epitaph to the right:

Reference

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. Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times

The Chicago Sun-Times is an United States daily newspaper published in Chicago, Illinois....
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. DVD Times.

Woodstock (film)

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Artists by appearance

Artists omitted

Director's cut

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Reference

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