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The first concert film of the rock & roll era, Monterey Pop is an invaluable record of some of the major musical figures of the late 1960s. The organizers of the Monterey International Pop Festival, held June 16-18, 1967, wisely chose to record the proceedings on film for commercial distribution. Even if some of the festival's big acts -- the Byrds, the Grateful Dead, and Buffalo Springfield -- didn't make the final cut for various reasons, the roster of performers who did reads like a who's who of the era: Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, the Who, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother & the Holding Company (featuring Janis Joplin), Simon & Garfunkel, and the Mamas & the Papas (that group's leader, John Phillips, was one of the festival's principal organizers). The festival's "international" tag is well-earned by one performer in the film: Ravi Shankar, whose final-day performance was one of the festival's highlights and closes the movie on an exuberant note. Though the festival seemed to be anticipating nearby San Francisco's Summer of Love, the film chooses to concentrate on the musical performers, with only brief intimations of the burgeoning counterculture.
CONDITION: NEW
Actors: Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas
Directors: D. A. Pennebaker
Format: AC-3, DTS Surround Sound, Full Screen, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 2
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: December 12, 2017
Run Time: 79 minutes
Cast & Crew
Animals Actor
Country Joe & the Fish Actor
Roger Daltrey Actor
John Entwistle Actor
Art Garfunkel Actor
Jimi Hendrix Actor
Jefferson Airplane Actor
Janis Joplin Actor
Keith Moon Actor
Otis Redding Actor
Ravi Shankar Actor
Paul Simon Actor
Pete Townshend Actor
Who Actor
Mamas & the Papas Actor
Canned Heat Actor
Peter Albin Actor
Big Brother & the Holding Company Actor
Technical Credits
D.A. Pennebaker Director,Cinematographer
Lou Adler Producer
James Desmond Camera Operator
Barry Feinstein Camera Operator
Richard Leacock Camera Operator
Albert Maysles Camera Operator
John Phillips Producer
Nicholas Proferes Camera Operator
Nina Schulman Editor
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