Film · 1970 · Concert movie
Woodstock
Directed by Michael Wadleigh
1970
★ 5.8 editorial score
Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker were on the editing crew, cutting three days of festival into split-screen: half a million people, no violence, and a mud field that became a permanent reference.
“Had it not been for this movie, Woodstock would be vaguely remembered as a rock concert that produced some recordings. Wadleigh's "Woodstock" created the idea of "Woodstock Nation," which existed for three days and was absorbed into American myth. Few documentaries have captured a time and place more completely, poignantly, and for that matter, entertainingly.”
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