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Summary 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)

Directed By: Julien Temple

  • 2007
  • R
  • CK Entertainment
  • 2 h 18 m
  • 2007
  • R
  • CK Entertainment
  • 2 h 18 m

Glastonbury

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Summary 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)

Directed By: Julien Temple

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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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69% Positive
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15% Negative
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Mixed or Average Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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Captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind.
By Bill White FULL REVIEW
78
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.
By Marc Savlov FULL REVIEW
75
Full of vitality and music and, at the same time, is a little wobbly, meandering and too long.
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70
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.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
63
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.
By Ty Burr FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Ray Bennett FULL REVIEW
20
Pretentiously impressionistic, sloppy almost to the point of self-parody, Temple’s film is New Journalism without the journalism -- or, alas, the drugs.
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Production Company Newhouse Nitrate
Release Date Feb 23, 2007
Duration 2 h 18 m
Rating R
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Tagline The mud. The music. The madness.
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Awards

Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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