Glastonbury [videorecording]
2006
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Documentary released to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Britain's best-known music festival. In 1970, a young farmer named Michael Eavis opened his 150-acre farm to 1500 people who paid one pound each to watch a handful of pop and folk stars perform all weekend long, and the Glastonbury Festival was born. The following year, several rich hippies, including Winston Churchill's granddaughter, provided funds to enlarge the event, and 12,500 people turned up to see David Bowie and Joan Baez. For most of the past 30 years, the Worthy Farm in Glastonbury has provided a delirious outdoor concert for thousands of people over the summer-solstice weekend. Julien Temple, whose film The Filth and the Fury screened at Sundance in 2000, has spent the past few years collecting footage from every single Glastonbury Festival, ranging from professional outtakes from the film Nicolas Roeg made about the 1971 event to amateur home videos collected from the attendees themselves, often retrieved from forgotten corners of closets and attics. Interweaving images of impromptu art happenings, skeptical locals, and stirring performances by music legends, not to mention the unbridled energy of each successive generation of youthful music fans, Glastonbury skillfully chronicles the evolution of the longest-running music festival in the world.
Main title:
Glastonbury [videorecording] / producer, Robert L. Richards.
Author:
Temple, Julien, director
Edition:
Special ed.
Imprint:
20th Century Studios, 2006.
Collation:
2 videodiscs (96 min.) : col.
Notes:
SET2.Featuring: Coldplay - Primal Scream - Blur - Scissor Sisters - The Chemical Brothers - Radiohead - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Foo Fighters - Goldfrapp - R.E.M. - Kaiser Chiefs - Paul McCartney.Region 2, 2 disc(s), Disc format DVD 9 dual layer, Interactive menus, Scene access, Ratio (1:1.78 (16:9) widescreen), Enhanced for WideScreen TV, Languages (English), Sound (Dolby Digital 5.1), Subtitles (English), Subtitles for hard of hearing (English), Bonus footage, Deleted scenes, Interviews (Coldplay, Noel Gallagher, John Peel, James Brown and T, Dandy Warhols, festival-goers), Commentary (Commentary by director Julien Temple and Jarvis Cocker), Other documentaries (12 extra live performances), Short film 'Freeing the Spirit'.Made in 2006.Credits: director, Julien Temple; subject, David Bowie; subject, Nick Cave; subject, Michael Eavis; subject, Steven Patrick Morrissey; subject, Joe Strummer.DVDS.
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BBFC code: 15.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
070.18
Language:
English
BRN:
1003218
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