disjointed
I don't know if it was just me, but I felt like there wasn't anything really holding the film together. It felt like a jumble of fotage and no actuall structural narrative at all.
::Kim::
I think that this approach just enhanced and added to just how much madness festivals can be, and how the more they can change the more things can stay the same there, re: harmonising with nature, the attitudes and even some of the music sounds like it could have been done back in the 1970s(i.e. Scissor Sisters are a good example). Just add the corporate sponsors . . . which any event like Glastonbury has these days, and increased numbers!
Incidentally, a music festival is a setting for my second novel OPERATION ASTUTE, at least the final third of it, and working behind the scenes at Glasto, seeing the security measures and reading a very surprising headline about a threat to the event in 2004 in the Guardian(seach it out online) inspired it. So the movie was all the more interesting for that.
Link to headline: http://arts.guardian.co.uk/glastonbury2004/story/0,,1253826,00.html
Author of RESURGENCE and OPERATION ASTUTE, available at www.lulu.com/resurgence
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The early 70's stuff was:
Quintessence (in B&W)
Terry Reid, with the silly hat and battered telecaster singing 'Dean' this was in colour and from the Peter Neal/Nic Roeg film. This was brilliant.
and Melanie, as she is known. I think that all the B&W footage came from the BBC, and has been shown many times.