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Glastonbury
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Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary | Foreign | Musical
Written by:
Directed by: Julien Temple
Release Date:
Theatrical: February 23, 2007
DVD: June 12, 2007
Running Time: 138 minutes, Color
Origin: UK
Summary
RATING: R for nudity, drug use, language and some sexual content
Starring Björk, David Bowie, Billy Bragg, James Brown, Nick Cave, Michael Eavis, Steven Patrick Morrissey, and Joe Strummer
This documentary chronicles the evolution of the longest running music festival in the world. Fueled by a staggering range of music, the movie embraces the spirit, characters and overwhelming experiences of the festival as it reflects the extraordinary world changes of the last three decades. (ThinkFilm)
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What The Critics Said
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Pete Vonder Haar
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. Glastonbury offers an exhaustive look at what remains the largest event of its kind.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
The hippies, the ravers, the bumbling bobbies and nonplussed locals, the mud, the rush of being in the crush, up against the barricades, torn between the need for a restroom and the need for more room, to dance, to sing, to carry on like a stark loony regardless of your faraway day job – all of this is captured by Temple's unblinking, seemingly everywhere-at-once eye.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
The film is clearly an act of boosterism, and it makes a pretty good case for the Glastonbury cause.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Joel Selvin
Full of vitality and music and, at the same time, is a little wobbly, meandering and too long.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Best of all though, we get to experience the whole fest itself, over four turbulent decades-an era from which Glastonbury, like Woodstock in its day, offers a halcyon "timeout."
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
The film does a fairly remarkable job of capturing the attitude of the festival, covering its evolution from quaint little Woodstock knockoff into something much larger that is both hallucinatory and hypnotic. It's Mardi Gras meets Burning Man with an excellent, revolving house band.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
Clocking in at two hours-plus, Glastonbury at times gives viewers the impression that they're slogging through the three-day plunge into mud, music and madness themselves. But for all the posers with light sticks and piercings, there are moments of Dada-esque beauty, not to mention some great music.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
As with most rock festivals, you had to be there, and if you're British you probably were, one year or another. In that case, Glastonbury is a pointed but essentially nostalgic tour of one country's more noble pop impulses. Otherwise, it's as muddy as Yasgur's farm back in the day.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Ray Bennett
A performance film, but sadly the majority of the performers are not the acts that have played at the long-running pop festival over 35 years, but the exhibitionists who make up the crowd.
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
While one can appreciate helmer's resistance to a conventional, chronological overview, what emerges is a long, structureless muddle that does justice to neither the stellar acts nor changing countercultural times event has encompassed.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
Despite the 138-minute running time, Temple holds all the artists to one song (or less), devoting about half the movie to kaleidoscopic--and ultimately wearying--montage of festivalgoers past and present.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Rob Nelson
Pretentiously impressionistic, sloppy almost to the point of self-parody, Temple’s film is New Journalism without the journalism -- or, alas, the drugs.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 2 User Votes
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