That ain’t teenage spirit you’re smelling. HBO’s Music Box documentary Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage reeks of righteous condemnation, judicial indiscretion, and conspiratorial obfuscation. But it’s okay. This is a disaster film masquerading as a documentary, and the found footage makes it all pay off. Director Garrett Price personally opens the film in the voiceover, explaining how the 1999 celebration itself was written to be a comedy, but “played out much more like a horror film.”
Music festivals have come to represent generations. The original Woodstock: an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music concert in the summer of 1969 brought half a million people together with the artists who spoke for and to them in a communal love bond. The organizers lost money, the capacity was underestimated, but the audience came together to share what they had to make the weekend legendary. In December that year, the...
Music festivals have come to represent generations. The original Woodstock: an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music concert in the summer of 1969 brought half a million people together with the artists who spoke for and to them in a communal love bond. The organizers lost money, the capacity was underestimated, but the audience came together to share what they had to make the weekend legendary. In December that year, the...
- 7/24/2021
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Anton Yelchin’s untimely death at the age of 27 almost three years ago shocked the world. From Chekov in the rebooted Star Trek franchise to his involvement in acclaimed indies like Only Lovers Left Alive and the pulsating cult classic Green Room, the actor had an amiable disposition and unwavering talent. In his directorial debut, Garrett Price intends to unveil a side of Anton Yelchin that his fans have never seen.
His new documentary Love, Antosha conveys the story of Anton Yelchin from his birth in the former Soviet Union and his family’s eventual escape to America, to his rise in the indie film circuit all the way to Hollywood, eventually culminating to his untimely death and his enduring legacy. With interviews conducted with his parents, co-stars, co-workers, friends, and his personal diaries narrated by Nicolas Cage, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of an August release.
In our interview from Sundance,...
His new documentary Love, Antosha conveys the story of Anton Yelchin from his birth in the former Soviet Union and his family’s eventual escape to America, to his rise in the indie film circuit all the way to Hollywood, eventually culminating to his untimely death and his enduring legacy. With interviews conducted with his parents, co-stars, co-workers, friends, and his personal diaries narrated by Nicolas Cage, the first trailer has now arrived ahead of an August release.
In our interview from Sundance,...
- 6/10/2019
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
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