SummaryOn a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the beginning of the Summer of Love, the first Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey featured career-making performances by Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly div... Read More
Directed By:D.A. Pennebaker
Monterey Pop
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It is possible that the way to a new kind of musical—using some of the talent and energy of what is still the most lively contemporary medium—may begin with just this kind of musical performance documentary.
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Though there's considerable footage of hippie activity (crafting kites, sleeping) and moments of prelapsarian frisson (a cop warns that "there's talk of the Hell's Angels coming down"), the film is resolutely performance-driven.
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Compared to D.A. Pennebaker's previous feature DON'T LOOK BACK (1967), the warts-and-all portrait of Bob Dylan, MONTEREY POP seems very much an authorized presentation of its subject.
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It captures their magic with a freewheeling spontaneity that became a model for later pop-music movies.
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Production Company:
- John Phillips-Lou Adler
- Leacock-Pennebaker
Release Date:Dec 26, 1968
Duration:1 h 18 m
Rating:TV-14
Tagline:Filmed At The Monterey International Pop Festival by D.A. Pennebaker
Awards
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Satellite Awards
• 1 Nomination
Venice Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
