Wrapping-Up Woodstock: A Film Festival with Character
There is more to this frenzy of film festival expansion than free booze and filmmakers' desperation for recognition and distribution and filmgoers craving films not dumbed down.
There is more to this frenzy of film festival expansion than free booze and filmmakers' desperation for recognition and distribution and filmgoers craving films not dumbed down.
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 12.01.2009 | New York
Today in that village in upstate New York, in Woodstock and several neighboring towns, the Woodstock Film Festival will have 150 films, features, documentaries and shorts with animation.
Chez Pazienza | Posted 10.17.2009 | Style
Never in the history of this country has there been a generation that's cast a longer shadow without really having done anything to earn it than the children of the 60s.
Lee Schneider | Posted 09.24.2009 | Media
In his blog, Dinan makes the case that Twitter is propagating new ideas at light speed, helping to create a new form of intimacy.
Eric Schurenberg | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
More than you like to think, financial success is due to forces beyond your control, such as when in your life the financial cycles play out. All you can do is focus on what you can control.
James S. Gordon | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
I hadn't planned on going, but then another doctor as young as I was then called me up, desperate for help. That's how I found myself on a plane to Bethel, N.Y. with Joan Baez.
Michael Winship | Posted 09.20.2009 | Entertainment
It's wistful to reflect on a Woodstock Nation that never really materialized, its moment of rhythm and harmony trumped by the heavy-footed dance stylings of men like Tom DeLay.
Ken Levine | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
This is the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. 500,000 long-haired stoned members of my generation attended this three-day open air music festival. I was not one of them. While half a million rain soaked, bathroom deprived hippies grooved on three days of love and understanding, I was in LA bombarded by news updates on the Charles Manson murders.
James Block | Posted 09.18.2009 | Entertainment
The lump in the collective throat on this anniversary is commentary on what we chose instead.
Tim Berry | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media
I'm all grown up now, I get marketing, my company depends on it like the rest of small business, but jeez, marketing at Woodstock? That's Woodstock's legacy?
Ethel Grodzins Romm | Posted 09.15.2009 | New York
He introduced his girlfriend as "my old lady." She was maybe 17. They were both stripped to the waist, lying in a zipped-open sleeping bag, like hundreds, thousands, of couples around them.
Angie Cordeiro | Posted 09.14.2009 | Living
Ok, so I'm not a card-carying, raw vegan hippy, yet sometimes I wonder what life would have been like if for the last forty years I had been.
Treehugger | Blythe Copeland | Posted 09.14.2009 | Green
Woodstock may have been a one-of-a-kind concert, but the artists and bands that performed there didn't let their commitment to global, political, and ...
AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 09.14.2009 | New York
NEW YORK — Today's robust festival culture owes much to Woodstock – lessons from both its incredible success and its logistical nightmares...
Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
As I look back, forty years later, the only thing I have less use for than petitions is regret, but I can say this: if I had it to do over again, I would have gone to that festival instead of sticking my nose up at it.
Paul Krassner | Posted 09.14.2009 | Entertainment
Four decades ago, along with 499,999 others on a countercultural pilgrimage, I headed to Woodstock. This was not merely a three-day outdoor concert. This was a Martian convention.
Jeff Cohen | Posted 09.11.2009 | Media
With today's technocopia, those who couldn't get to Woodstock would have followed the event song by song through Twitter, live blogs and video circulating across a million cell phones and computers.
Stewart Nusbaumer | Posted 10.16.2009 | New York