The rest is a mishmash of sequences from many different sources including homemade video going back to the 1970s and stitched together at random.
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04/13/06
Glastonbury (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:22
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Glastonbury is formless and scattershot, and successful in capturing the festival's raw, wild energy.
Theatrical Release:Feb 23, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Glastonbury is now the best known, longest running and most pre-eminent music festival in the world. Fuelled by a staggering range of music, the movie will embrace the spirit, characters and... [More]
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Reviews for Glastonbury
Top CriticThis is entertaining stuff, though and there's a big laugh when a hippy juggling flaming torches sets fire to himself.
05/06/06
... as muddy as Yasgur's farm back in the day.
04/07/07
Top CriticA frenetic cut-and-paste job that is free of voiceover, commentary or even titles to introduce interviewees. Such calculated vagueness works, and the lingering impression is of a messy and hedonistic free-for-all.
06/24/06
What [Temple] does...is immerse his audience in the spirit of the festival with ingenious editing that shows the Glastonbury Festival as nothing short of a geographically bound society that just happens to exist for a few days a year.
03/25/07
Compulsive viewing, but it feels far too long.
03/01/06
The overall soundtrack seamlessly patches together a sonic quilt of eclectic music that evokes a kind of timeless flow. It's not a Glastonbury of any particular vintage, but rather a continuum of experiences that have occurred on this sacred ground.
02/22/07
Top CriticAn alternately rousing and repetitive 138-minute documentary spanning four decades of the Glastonbury Festival.
05/31/07
Overlong, unfocused, and shallow, it is less a film than a test of endurance.
03/03/07
A long, structureless muddle that does justice to neither the stellar acts nor changing countercultural times event has encompassed.
02/13/06
Top CriticA magical documentary recounting the 35 tumultuous years of the Glastonbury Music Festival, this is an exhilarating experience.
05/06/06
The movie's 135 minutes [feels] long. But the length is a product of [director] Temple's desire to cram in as much as he can. Despite the festival's drawbacks, it's obvious Temple loves everything about it. Even Coldplay.
03/08/07
For all the posers with light sticks and piercings, there are moments of Dada-esque beauty, not to mention some great music from Tinariwen, Bjork, David Bowie and the late, great Joe Strummer.
04/05/07
Top CriticCombining images of 30 years of politics, music, self-expression and alternative living, it's a vibrant, if inevitably scattered, film that manages to tread the fine line between chronicling the festival and exploiting it.
06/08/07
A Herculean task executed with wit, intelligence and unmistakable passion. The next best thing to being there.
05/06/06
Pretentiously impressionistic, sloppy almost to the point of self-parody, [director Julien] Temple's film is New Journalism without the journalism -- or, alas, the drugs.
02/22/07
Temple is able to convey a perceptive and substantive mood pertaining to the staying power of this weirdly nuanced outdoor finger-snapping function.
02/25/07
While the movie will clarify whether or not the fest is for you, you never feel like you're actually there.
03/08/07
The film is clearly an act of boosterism, and it makes a pretty good case for the Glastonbury cause.
02/24/07
The sense of total immersion is breathlessly complete.
04/13/07
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