Festival (1967 film)
Festival (stylized as Festival!) is a 1967 American documentary film about the Newport Folk Festival, written, produced, and directed by Murray Lerner.
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| Directed by | Murray Lerner |
| Produced by | Murray Lerner [1] |
| Written by | Murray Lerner |
| Cinematography | Murray Lerner Stanley Meredith Francis Grumman George Pickow |
| Edited by | Howard Alk |
Production company | Patchke Productions |
| Distributed by | Peppercorn-Wormser |
Release date | December 5, 1967 |
Running time | 97 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Filmed over the course of three festivals at Newport (1963-1965),[2] the film features performances by Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, Peter, Paul and Mary, Odetta, Bob Dylan, Judy Collins, Mississippi John Hurt, Son House, Howlin' Wolf, Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Spider John Koerner, Theodore Bikel, Hobart Smith, the Osborne Brothers, The Staple Singers, Mimi and Richard Fariña, Donovan, Sacred Harp Singers, Georgia Sea Island Singers, Mike Bloomfield, Ronnie Gilbert, Moving Star Hall Singers, Blue Ridge Mountain Dancers, and many others.
It also features the Bob Dylan's 1965 electric set at Newport. Festival was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [3]
See also
- List of American films of 1967
- Monterey Pop, the 1968 filming of the Monterey Pop Festival
- Dont Look Back, the 1967 documentary film also featuring Bob Dylan
References
- Documentary Oscars® in 1968
- Liner notes of the 2005 DVD release of Festival! says, "Murray filmed three years at Newport, 1963, 1964 and 1965."
- 1968|Oscars.org|Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
External links
- Festival on IMDb
- Festival at AllMovie
- Festival at Rotten Tomatoes
- Festival: Who Knows What’s Gonna Happen Tomorrow? an essay by Amanda Petrusich at the Criterion Collection
- Festival on MUBI