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Woodstock: A Snapshot in Time
USA 2022
produced by Charles Lane, Nancy Cohen for Lambstar Productions
directed by Nancy Cohen
starring Nancy Cohen, Andy Lee, Robert Downey sr, Andrew Tatarsky, Bonzo Band, Janusz Gilewicz, Danny Goldberg, Julie Lee (II), Gloria Steinem, Meir Fund, Randy Cherkas, Eddie Izzard, Paul Krassner, Mike Golden, Mike Leigh, Kova Dauser, Forrest Greenleaf Grass, Viola Jordanoff Bowman, Richie Havens, Ramsey Clark, Terrence McKenna, Archie Cheechoo, Julie Holland, narration by Peter Coyote
written by Nancy Cohen
documentary
review by Mike Haberfelner
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The original Woodstock in 1969 was always more than just a music
festival but an event that helped to give a generation its identity.
Consequently, both the film it spawned and its soundtrack have become
instant classics. So it was really only a matter of time until the
entertainment industry would pick up on that success, and bearing that in
mind, it's almost surprising that it has actually taken all of 25 years
for a revival festival to occur. Of course, the world has turned quite a
bit since 1969, and the chances of the new, corporate-run Woodstock music
festival to be as iconic for its generation as the earlier one was were
slim from the get-go. And on the basis of all of this, filmmakers Nancy
Cohen and Andy Lee have set out to capture the mindset of this new flock
of concert-goers, also in relation to audiences of the original Woodstock,
and get and transmit a feel of the new Woodstock-spirit ... ...
and that's exactly what this film is so good at. Sure, it shows next to
nothing of the festival itself - but then there's plenty of high gloss
concert footage out there anyways - but features a fine compilation of
unfiltered interviews from back in the day that are fortunately left
untouched by hindsight from almost 30 years later and that thus serve as a
nice document of a time, and of a generation that might not have had its
"own" Woodstock in terms of iconography, but that doesn't mean
it doesn't have or deserve a voice - a voice this documentary grants them
quite successfully.
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review © by Mike Haberfelner
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