Your favorite concert movie’s favorite concert movie. I will never get a chance to walk around the Monterey Pop Festival. But I sorta just did?
Pennebaker paints a full portrait of a music festival - talking to not just the musicians but to the staff and the attendees. We get moments of stillness and quiet. Sometimes a music festival is about waking up in your smelly sleeping bag and combing your unwashed hair. Sometimes it’s about being stoned in public.…
Really well told story! I loved the section where we hear the arrangement of Everyday People evolve. I wish we got to hear more of the tracks? In general I wish we got a little more music. But ultimately, this is a doc about the man and his life. And while his work is part of his life, there’s a lot more to it.
Something that really interests me is how the interviews are framed. Questlove keeps some of his…
The longer this doc went on, the less I liked it. The first ten minutes of snappy editing and highlighting the music was great. And I really enjoyed a lot of the behind the scenes looks that we got at some iconic performances. But I found it to be incredibly hollow as a whole.
There’s a thing that really annoyed me in Netflix’s Woodstock 99 documentary from a few years back. Whenever a festival organizer gives an interview, the try…
So like… what are we doing here?
Like. This is a well made movie. The production design goes above and beyond. The performances are electric and as good as the script allows. It’s a stacked cast - fun movie to say “hey I know that guy!”
But what is this script? Never before has a movie so wished that it was written by Aaron Sorkin. But there has to be a point to that style. You have to have something…
