Glastonbury
by Julien Temple
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Actor: Coldplay; Radiohead; Paul McCartney; David Bowie; Bjork; The White Stripes and more!Director: Julien Temple
Brand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 138 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-12
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Velocity / Thinkfilm
Movie Reviews of Glastonbury
Movie Review: repetitious but entertaining documentary
Summary: 3 Stars
With well over a hundred thousand attendees per year, The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts is a famed counterculture musical event held in the English countryside not far from where the mystical Neolithic monument, Stonehenge, is located. Comparisons to Woodstock are clearly inevitable, but whereas Woodstock was basically a one-time thing, The Glastonbury Festival has been an annual event dating all the way back to 1970. Some of the styles and attitudes may have changed over the years, but the spirit of free love, political consciousness-raising, New Age mysticism and sheer unadulterated rebellion for which the festival is famous still remains.
Julien Temple, the director of the documentary entitled simply, "Glastonbury," brings an almost patchwork quality to her film, indiscriminately splicing together grainy footage from the earlier festivals with far clearer images from the much more recent past. She doesn't identify which year any particular sequence is from, so one minute we'll be watching hippies and flower-children "doin' their thing" in the meadows and the mud, followed the next by spike-haired punk-rockers head-banging their way into mind-altered oblivion.
The glue holding this excessively long, frequently repetitious and somewhat unwieldy film together is Michael Eavis, the idealistic yet deeply pragmatic festival organizer whose running commentary illuminates the history behind Glastonbury that he himself lived through and indeed helped to create. He discusses the changes he's seen in the participants over the years, acknowledges some of the more crassly commercial aspects of the event, and recounts a few of the less savory moments that have come close to spelling the end for the festival itself. The latter include the occasional run-ins he and his fellow celebrants have had with both the law and some of the more disgruntled residents of the town nearby.
But, clearly, the main reason for checking out "Glastonbury" is for the music, and, indeed, the festival has played host to a surprisingly eclectic mixture of musical performers and styles in the four decades since it first came into existence. Heavy metal, reggae, acid rock, electro, blues - all these genres and then some have found a home at Glastonbury. Some of the more well-known performers in the movie include Bjork, David Bowie, Coldplay, The Velvet Underground, Radiohead and Tangerine Dream. It's a pity that we are treated to little more than snippets of each of their acts, but even in small doses they create quite a tasty little smorgasbord for diehard music lovers to sample.
Summary of Glastonbury
Only one music festival of the 1960s has survived over the last three decades - glastonbury. This invites audiences to submerge themselves in the spirit characters & overwhelming sensory experiences of the festival as it travels through the extraordinary ch-ch-changes of the last three decades. Studio: Image Entertainment Release Date: 06/12/2007 Run time: 138 minutes Rating: RDocumentary DVD Video
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