This director-approved special edition Criterion Collection contains four performance films by legendary documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker from the unforgettable 1967 Monterey Pop Festival. Titles included are MONTEREY POP, JIMI PLAYS MONTEREY, SHAKE! OTIS AT MONTEREY, and MONTEREY POP: THE OUTTAKE PERFORMANCES.MONTEREY POP: This documentary features live performances, behind-the-scenes and audience footage, and other selections from the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival, which was considered to be
Unrated, 3 hr. 58 min.
Nov 12, 2002
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Looking back on a time when music mattered, it's all good--at least as seen through the lens of documentary filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker...[Blu-ray]
Whether you were there or not -- even born or not -- fans of the music that played for three days in June 1967 should jump on this superb Criterion release as if it were the last chopper out of 'Nam.
A three-disc DVD set that explodes with legendary performances.
June 1967 saw thousands of mellow music fans travel to a small California town to enjoy three days of music. Fortunately for those of us who weren't there, filmmaker D.A. Pennebaker was (and he brought cameras).
Ended 2005 and started 2006 watching this - legendary performances by Jimi Hendrix, The Who, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding and many others. I'd been wanting to get this set for a long time. It's the original Monterey Pop film by DA Pennebaker, plus another two hours of outtakes, and two other short films - Jimi Plays
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