Tony Sokol Aug 5, 2019
By the time we get to Woodstock, it is fifty years gone, but the director's cut film fills in the celebration.
"Have you ever seen the rain," John Fogerty wanted to know on the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit of the same name, "coming down on a sunny day?" Fifty years ago next week, over 400,000 music fans saw it happen on Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York. By the time Crosby, Stills, and Nash performed a Joni Mitchell song celebrating the event, the crowd was "half a million strong." The hastily built stage was set for them to enjoy three days of peace, love, and music at what has come be to known as Woodstock.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary, Fathom Events and Warner Bros. will screen the director's cut of Michael Wadleigh's documentary Woodstock at more than 600 nationwide theaters. The event will happen one night only: Thursday,...
By the time we get to Woodstock, it is fifty years gone, but the director's cut film fills in the celebration.
"Have you ever seen the rain," John Fogerty wanted to know on the Creedence Clearwater Revival hit of the same name, "coming down on a sunny day?" Fifty years ago next week, over 400,000 music fans saw it happen on Max Yasgur's Farm in Bethel, New York. By the time Crosby, Stills, and Nash performed a Joni Mitchell song celebrating the event, the crowd was "half a million strong." The hastily built stage was set for them to enjoy three days of peace, love, and music at what has come be to known as Woodstock.
To commemorate the 50th anniversary, Fathom Events and Warner Bros. will screen the director's cut of Michael Wadleigh's documentary Woodstock at more than 600 nationwide theaters. The event will happen one night only: Thursday,...
- 8/5/2019
- Den of Geek
Before it happened, the rock-music festival on a dairy farm was billed as “An Aquarian Experience: 3 Days of Peace and Music” and no one realized the weekend would become one of the seminal moments not just in music history, but in American history.
Fifty years later, the groundbreaking film that captured the original Woodstock music festival has become one of the most acclaimed documentaries ever produced – and Fathom Events is partnering with Warner Bros. to bring it back to movie theaters for one night only. “Woodstock: The Director’s Cut” will play at 7:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, August 15, in movie theaters nationwide.
Tickets are available now at www.FathomEvents.com.
“Both as a documentary and as a pop-culture phenomenon, ‘Woodstock’ is a milestone, a pivotal moment in history captured forever, proving the enduring power of cinema,” said Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events. “Fifty years later, there...
Fifty years later, the groundbreaking film that captured the original Woodstock music festival has become one of the most acclaimed documentaries ever produced – and Fathom Events is partnering with Warner Bros. to bring it back to movie theaters for one night only. “Woodstock: The Director’s Cut” will play at 7:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, August 15, in movie theaters nationwide.
Tickets are available now at www.FathomEvents.com.
“Both as a documentary and as a pop-culture phenomenon, ‘Woodstock’ is a milestone, a pivotal moment in history captured forever, proving the enduring power of cinema,” said Ray Nutt, CEO of Fathom Events. “Fifty years later, there...
- 7/19/2019
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
"This film should be played loud!" It's a cliché now, a concert-movie disclaimer that's become the equivalent of that hippie-dippy tagline from those Freedom Rock compilation ads ("Well, turn it up, maaaaan.") But in the late Seventies, when it first flashed onscreen in all white font against a stark black background before the credits of The Last Waltz, you knew it meant business. Keep moving that volume knob clockwise, folks. Let the needle swing into the red.
And then we begin at the end, with the weary members of the...
And then we begin at the end, with the weary members of the...
- 11/25/2016
- Rollingstone.com
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