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05/12/07
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
The sense of total immersion is breathlessly complete.
04/13/07
The film is clearly an act of boosterism, and it makes a pretty good case for the Glastonbury cause.
02/24/07
A magical documentary recounting the 35 tumultuous years of the Glastonbury Music Festival, this is an exhilarating experience.
05/06/06
... as muddy as Yasgur's farm back in the day.
04/07/07
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04/23/09
The portrait is spectacular and inclusive, if sometimes a bit overwhelming and confusing.
03/08/07
Top CriticPretentiously 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
A Herculean task executed with wit, intelligence and unmistakable passion. The next best thing to being there.
05/06/06
The festival’s audience is as integral a part of the proceedings as the music, and we get a rich portrait of the wide variety of pranksters, iconoclasts, and freaks that descend upon the West Country of England in the hundreds of thousands every year.
02/04/06
Features some beautiful and epic performances that are enough, on their own, to entertain.
05/06/06
This is entertaining stuff, though and there's a big laugh when a hippy juggling flaming torches sets fire to himself.
05/06/06
The rest is a mishmash of sequences from many different sources including homemade video going back to the 1970s and stitched together at random.
04/13/06
Julien Temple's formless documentary Glastonbury aims to capture the festival's chaos and free-wheeling freakiness and accomplishes this goal.
02/23/07
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
While the movie will clarify whether or not the fest is for you, you never feel like you're actually there.
03/08/07
An alternately rousing and repetitive 138-minute documentary spanning four decades of the Glastonbury Festival.
05/31/07
Combining 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
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05/13/09
Overlong, unfocused, and shallow, it is less a film than a test of endurance.
03/03/07
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