Screenplay:
Barbara KoppleCinematography:
Tom HurwitzCast:
Henry Rollins, Michael Wadleigh, Rosie Perez, Roger Daltrey, Carlos Santana, Allen Ginsberg, Perry Farrell, Joe Cocker, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel (more)Plots(1)
For some time, it seems as if, apart from the mud and the permanent grin on organiser Michael Lang’s face, nothing is the same at the three different Woodstock festivals in 1969, 1994 and 1999. The pioneers of the legendary first Woodstock also organised the festivals in 1994 and 1999, but in their complaints about the youngsters of today they sound like their own parents thirty years ago. Back then, they were looking for higher things like love and peace, in the years 1994 and 1999 youngsters are looking for Pepsi and fun, or worse: for nothing in particular. They are angry, but do not know why, actress Rosie Perez notes in the film. These views put the contemporary generation X diametrically opposite the resistance generation of the sixties. But director Barbara Kopple also shows in her film that the desire for music, oneness and rituals equally nurtured all three festivals. (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam)
(more)Cast
Henry Rollins
USA
Best movies:
Heat (1995)
Lost Highway (1997)
Jackass: Volume 2 (2002)
Michael Wadleigh
USA
Best movies:
Wolfen (1981)
Rosie Perez
USA
Best movies:
Night on Earth (1991)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
All the Invisible Children (2005)
Roger Daltrey
UK
Best movies:
The Who: At Kilburn 1977 (1977) (concert)
The Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert (1992) (concert)
The Who: Tommy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2017) (concert)
Carlos Santana
Mexico
Allen Ginsberg
USA
Best movies:
Bald-Dog-Rock (1981)
Chappaqua (1966)
Ciao Manhattan (1972)
Perry Farrell
USA
Best movies:
The Doom Generation (1995)
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Joe Cocker
UK
Best movies:
Joe Cocker: Fire It Up Live (2013) (concert)
Across the Universe (2007)
Pete Townshend
UK
Best movies:
The Who: At Kilburn 1977 (1977) (concert)
The Who: Tommy - Live at the Royal Albert Hall (2017) (concert)
The Secret Policeman's Ball (1979) (theatrical recording)
Peter Gabriel
UK
Best movies:
Live 8 (2005) (concert)
New York Stories (1989)
Keith Moon
UK
Best movies:
The Who: At Kilburn 1977 (1977) (concert)
Tommy (1975)
200 Motels (1971)
Sheryl Crow
USA
Best movies:
Cars (2006)
We Walk the Line: A Celebration of the Music of Johnny Cash (2012) (concert)
54 (1998)
Melissa Etheridge
USA
Best movies:
Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
Moby
USA
Best movies:
Moby: Play - The DVD (2001) (video compilation)
Joe's Apartment (1996)
Suck (2009)
Steven Tyler
USA
Best movies:
Aerosmith: Big Ones You Can Look at (1994) (music video)
Taylor Swift: The 1989 World Tour Live (2015) (concert)
Aerosmith Rocks Donington 2014 (2015) (concert)
Jimi Hendrix (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Psych-Out (1968)
Janis Joplin (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Kozmic Blues (2007)
Petulia (1968)
Graham Nash
UK
David Crosby
USA
Best movies:
Backdraft (1991)
Hook (1991)
Thunderheart (1992)
Al Roker
USA
Best movies:
Men in Black (1997)
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)