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Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace Music Director's Cut (40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition and BD-Live with Amazon Exclusive Bonus Content) [Blu-ray] | ![Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace Music Director's Cut (40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition and BD-Live with Amazon Exclusive Bonus Content) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QE-CGJqML._SL500_.jpg) | Director: Michael Wadleigh
Actors: Joan Baez, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Joe Cocker, Country Joe McDonald, Crosby Stills Nash
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $69.99
Buy New: $47.99
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Rating:  291 reviews
Sales Rank: 2318
Languages: English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Chinese (Subtitled), Danish (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled), Finnish (Subtitled), German (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Norwegian (Subtitled), Polish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Swedish (Subtitled), Thai (Subtitled)
Media: Blu-ray
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Number Of Discs: 2
Running Time: 184 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 8 x 6.1 x 2.8
UPC: 883929073986
EAN: 0883929073986
ASIN: B001V9LRTM
Release Date: June 9, 2009
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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This directorrsquo;s cut of emWoodstock: 3 Days of Peace Music/em, released to coincide with the 40th anniversary of that legendary concert event, has to be one of the most impressive Blu-Ray releases of 2009 or any other year--and thatrsquo;s even before you put the discs in your player. The box is designed to resemble a faux fringe jacket (with an iron-on patch attached), and inside are all manner of shiny bells and whistles, including a lucite paperweight with images from the event, a reprint of emLIFE Magazine/emrsquo;s original festival feature, and reproductions of various Woodstock memorabilia, right down to notes left by concertgoers ("Please meet me in front of stage. I have your insulin pills") and a three-day ticket to the event. And hey, if yoursquo;re looking for subtitles in Finnish, Thai, or Polish, yoursquo;ve come to the right place. pThe movie itself now weighs in at nearly four hours long, and is presumably the way director Michael Wadleigh wanted it in the first place. The Blu-Ray transfer is definitely an upgrade, as is the soundtrack, which was originally recorded on 8-track tape under less-than-ideal conditions. (Using modern digital technology, audio engineer Eddie Kramer, who was hunkered down in what passed for a recording booth at the Woodstock site, has painstakingly restored the soundtrack--even bringing in some of the musicians to re-play their original parts, as on Santanarsquo;s ldquo;Evil Ways,rdquo; one of the previously unreleased bonus performances. Considering that the event is something of a sacred cow by now, this trick may strike some as blasphemous. Then again, this is hardly the first time that a live concert recording has been sweetened, re-recorded, or otherwise enhanced. In fact, it'd be hard to find one that wasn't. And the additions would have gone largely unnoticed if we hadn't been told about them.) In the end, though, therersquo;s only so much improvement possible, and emWoodstock/em was never about technical brilliance anyway. Nor was it mostly about the music, either. Nor was it mostly about the music, either. There are some terrific performances, from acoustic numbers by Richie Havens and Crosby, Stills Nash to powerful electric contributions from Santana, Sly the Family Stone, and Joe Cocker. But the truth is that Monterey Pop, which happened two years earlier, was the more exciting concert, and of the several artists who appeared on both bills (including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, and others), all of them made better music at the California festival. But Woodstock was always less a concert than an overall cultural happening, and Wadleigh and his crew, often employing an effective split-screen technique, do a superb job of corralling and conveying the remarkable atmosphere and spirit of it; you didnrsquo;t have to be there to recognize that this was the zenith of the Age of Aquarius (it was also the twilight; with Altamont looming, things would never be this peaceful and idealistic again)./p pOf principal interest on the second disc will be two hours of additional musical performances, including both additional tunes by those who are in the main feature and appearances by five artists who for various reasons (ego, money, quality, time) never made it into the film at all; of the latter, Creedence Clearwater Revival is excellent, Paul Butterfield and Johnny Winter are good, Mountain is mediocre, and the Grateful Dead, with an interminable (38 minutes!) "Turn on Your Love Light," are awful (a special Blu-Ray-only feature lets users organize this material as they see fit). Meanwhile, "From Festival to Feature," a new, hour-long look at the making of the movie, is absorbing and minutely detailed. The Amazon-exclusive content (included on disc 2) is an additional 20 minutes of never-before-seen performance footage in high definition from Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish plus three bonus featurettes. em--Sam Graham/em/p pstrongProduct Description/strongbr /1969 was a year unlike any other. Man first set foot on the moon. The New York Mets won the World Series against all odds. And for three days in the rural town of Bethel, New York, half a million people experienced the single most defining moment of their generation; a concert unprecedented in scope and influence, a coming together of people from all walks of life with a single common goal: Peace and music. They called it Woodstock. One year later, a landmark Oscar®-winning documentary captured the essence of the music, the electricity of the performances, and the experience of those who lived it. Newly remastered, the film features legendary performances by 17 best selling artists. Bonus content includes: bull; Customize your own Woodstock playlist!bull; BD Live Enabled Features Including Media Center, My Commentary, Live/p strong/strong pspan class="h1"strongStills from emWoodstock: 3 Days of Peace Music Director's Cut/em/strong/spanspan class="h1"strong/strong/span table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" width="100%" p/p p/p tbody tr align="center" valign="top" tdaimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_1sm.jpg" //td tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_2sm.jpg" //td tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_3sm.jpg" //td /tr tr align="center" valign="top" tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_4sm.jpg" style="float: right;" //td td style="width: 100px;"br / /td tdimg src="http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/dvd/warner/woodstock_5sm.jpg" style="float: left;" //td /tr /tbody /table /p
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Great Video Sound quality November 16, 2009
Matteo Rota (Bergamo, Italy)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I think that Video Quality and Music Quality are excellent, no doubt! Restoration works are made by really professional people.
br /Package is containing 4 discs with bonus iron plate with 3D woodstock image. It's something that I didn't like since I want product quality rather that box quality. It's funny to see the external BOX Set like an Hippie Jacket Generation, even my opinion is better to avoid it.
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br /Inside the box there are a few reproduction of memorabilia, not really nice from my point of view.
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br /At the end, my opinion is very positive, I suggest to purchase it, not to forget the great event took 40 years ago but still alive in our generation.
 I purchased this DVD set for the CCR clips November 15, 2009
swamper
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
They finely included CCR in this package,but they did not cut them into movie.They are on an extra disc entitled Woodstock:Untold Stories.This disc also includes some great never before seen performances by Santana,Canned Heat,Mountain,Johnny Winter and Paul Butterfield.No Blood Sweat And Tears.
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br /For me it was worth buying this set for the Untold Stories Disc,although they did not bother using all the camera shots to make it wide-screen as the movie was done.
Blu-ray NOT NECESSARY!!!! November 9, 2009
Daryl K. Smith (Monsey, NY United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I love the new footage as it is such a joy to see Janis Joplin and Credence and Mountain I must say that buying this 40th Anniversary edition on Blue Ray is a whopping waste of money. A film is only good as its original source and the 16mm film that Woodstock was shot on is so incredibly poor that enhancing on Blue Ray only magnifies the grain and the shoddy essence that previously was fairly unnoticed. So dear souls hoping to UPGRADE your visual anatomy of the Woodstockian world on display may lessen the blow to their mind and their wallet by simply staying with the 40th year anniversary set on regular and NOT Blu ray DVD. The film is what it is and if you havent seen it by now and your not under 30 then you should be ashamed of yourself. A great experience none the less but
br /repeat viewings will not be on your to do list for sometime to come. God bless us everyone and for pete sake dont take the brown acid.
Awesome Woodstock DVD October 28, 2009
Ray H. Bartlett III (Fountain Valley, Ca)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
About 3 hours of extra concert footage - CCR and extended Who made it all worthwhile. If you're a "Deadhead" you'll love their footage. Clever packaging. Well worth the $$$.
Woodstock 49th Anniversay Box Set October 27, 2009
Allan J. Day (ontario canada)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wasnt at Woodstock, but i sure knew what was happening in the music world---wanted to be there but could only follow it in the papers and TV---this boxset has to be the Ultimate viewing material available to us to date. the quality is way better than past releases (especially VHS)extended scenes with the crowd makes you closer to what your watching, you can feel the vibes--all the bonus material especially the bands that didnt get included in the original release kept me excited as i got to view some of my favourite groups in action with the times---all in all, if you want a step back in time to view what you missed not being there and if you were there, a trip to your past--BUT THIS GREAT COLLECTORS EDITION WOODSTOCK 3 DAYS OF PEACE AND MUSIC
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