Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
by Murray Lerner
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Actor: Chick Churchill, Ian Anderson, Joan Baez, Leonard Cohen, Martin BarreDirector: Murray Lerner
Brand: Sony
Producer: Murray Lerner
Writer: Murray Lerner
Editor: Einar Westerlund
Producer: Avril MacRory
Producer: Geoff Kempin
Producer: Malcolm Gerrie
Producer: Rocky Oldham
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, Compilation, DVD-Video, Live, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 127 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1997-12-10
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Wonder (Video)
Movie Reviews of Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Movie Review: A Darker Woodstock
Summary: 4 Stars
There was definitely tension in the air at this festival. The movie captures this wonderfully with some great footage between the acts. Lot's of spaced out hippies wondering what is happening with their revolution...
The performances are inspired though. It's a great thing to see Miles Davis, The Doors, The Moody Blues, Kris Kristofferson, Hendrix, The Who, Joni Mitchell, and Leonard Cohen all performing at the same event. One sympathizes with Kristofferson. He couldn't seem to engage the audience at all, who were so worked up at that point that all Kris could do was walk off stage. You can pick up on the different attitudes the people had over in Europe at that time as opposed to the Woodstock footage. This crowd was angrier, and less willing to put up with with anything it seems. I can imagine that some of these people would turn to punk in the coming years. The great outdoor music festivals had run their course, I think. Though arguably there have been a handful of very successful ones since then.
Summary of Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival
Two hours of footage by the who the moddy blues and others. Including the last stage performances by jimi hendrix and the doors jim morrison. Studio: Sony Music Release Date: 02/24/2004 Run time: 120 minutes Rating: NrThis documentary by Murray Lerner (From Mao to Mozart) was shot in 1970, but for many reasons was not shown to the public until 1995 in Great Britain. In an important way, it is the final chapter in an unofficial trilogy of concert films (along with Woodstock and Gimme Shelter) that together paint a picture of the highest and lowest points of Woodstock Nation politics: from mass goodwill to anarchy to outright stupidity. On the one hand, Message to Love is a rock & roll movie with several performances that are outright revelations (the Who's triumphant show, the Doors' "The End"), some that are awfully good (Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun"), and more than enough that are superfluous (Ten Days After, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Jethro Tull). On the other hand, Lerner's cameras are trained on the increasingly testy relationship between nomadic hippies who travel a long way to see the show but refuse to pay, and concert producers who resort to using guard dogs, cops, and aluminum walls to keep crashers at a distance. Just how bad does the mood become after several days of this? Check out the scene in which Joni Mitchell breaks down in tears after singing her ode to peace and love, "Woodstock," before this lot. In an era when we've become used to extraordinary security and high ticket prices at rock concerts, it's perhaps hard to grasp what the fuss was about at the Isle of Wight. But Lerner's amazing film helps a viewer get a sense of what was really at stake in that period before rock & roll was a corporate matter, and when kids naively thought it was theirs for the taking. --Tom Keogh
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