
There’s a new movie, directed by Barak Goodman, Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation,that just premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca says the film…
“focuses not just on how it all came to be, despite enormous challenges, but how it felt for it to happen: an endless traffic backup was elevated to a communal experience, and a food shortage became a collaboration rather than a disaster. The incredible performances spotlighted in the film, from Jimi Hendrix to Joan Baez to Crosby, Stills, and Nash—form the backdrop to what is fundamentally the audience’s story. Woodstock takes us all back to a time and a place now captured in a time capsule, but also reminds us of the immediacy that love, music and shared experience can elicit.”

The documentary is in theaters across the country in May and June. There’s also a screening on the actual grounds of the festival, Bethel Woods Center for the Arts on July 25. (I’m going to that one, it’s 10 minutes from my studio and it’s FREE. Get tickets here.)
If you miss it in theaters, it wills air on PBS on Tuesday, August 6 at 9PM as part of the American Experience series that focuses on the events of 1969, including the moon landing and the Vietnam War.
Watch.
SCREENING DATES
28-Apr-4 May | New York, NY | Tribeca Film Festival
Q&A with filmmakers and special guests following screenings
May 3 | San Rafael, CA | Doclands
In attendance: film subjects Wavy Gravy and Jahanara Romney
24-May | New York, NY | Quad Cinema
31-May | Woodstock, NY | Upstate Films
31-May | San Francisco | Opera Plaza Cinema
31-May | Berkeley | Shattuck Cinemas
31-May | San Rafael, CA | Smith Rafael Film Center
31-May | Chicago, IL | Gene Siskel Film Center
7-Jun | Los Angeles, CA | Nuart Theatre
7-Jun | Portland, OR | Cinema 21
7-Jun | Milwaukee, WI | Oriental Theatre
7-Jun | San Diego, CA | Ken Cinema
7-Jun | Denver, CO | Chez Artiste
7-Jun | Philadelphia, PA | Ritz at the Bourse
7-Jun | Monterey, CA | Osio Cinemas
14-Jun | Baltimore, MD | Charles Theatre
14-Jun | Boston, MA | Kendall Square Cinema
14-Jun | Washington, D.C. | E Street Cinema
14-Jun | Nevada City, CA | Onyx Theater
14-Jun | Santa Rosa, CA | Summerfield Cinemas
21-Jun | Minneapolis, MN | Landmark Theatres
21-Jun | Atlanta, GA | Midtown Art Cinema
21-Jun | Phoenix, AZ | Harkins Shea 14

(Photos, screen grabs; via Brooklyn Vegan)