Monterey Pop

D. A. Pennebaker

 
Monterey Pop Criterion Blu-Ray

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  • United States
  • 1967
  • 78 minutes
  • Color
  • 1.33:1
  • English
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  • Spine #168

SYNOPSIS: On a beautiful June weekend in 1967, at the height of the Summer of Love, the first and only Monterey International Pop Festival roared forward, capturing a decade’s spirit and ushering in a new era of rock and roll. Monterey would launch the careers of Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding, but they were just a few among a wildly diverse cast that included Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, the Byrds, Hugh Masekela, and the extraordinary Ravi Shankar. With his characteristic vérité style, D. A. Pennebaker captured it all, immortalizing moments that have become legend: Pete Townshend destroying his guitar, Jimi Hendrix burning his. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this timeless document of a landmark event.

Cast & CreditsOpen

Cast

Janis Joplin
Paul Simon
Art Garfunkel
"Mama" Cass Elliot
John Phillips
Michelle Phillips
Denny Doherty
Jimi Hendrix
Hugh Masekela
Grace Slick
Eric Burdon
Roger Daltrey
Keith Moon
John Entwistle
Pete Townshend
Otis Redding
Ravi Shankar

Credits

DirectorD. A. Pennebaker
ProducerLou Adler and John Phillips
CinematographyJames Desmond, Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, Roger Murphy, D. A. Pennebaker and Barry Feinstein
EditingNina Schulman
Assistant editorMary Lampson

Disc Features

  • Restored high-definition digital transfer, supervised and approved by D.A. Pennebaker
  • Soundtrack featuring a 5.1 mix by legendary recording engineer Eddie Kramer, presented in Dolby Digital (and DTS-HD Master Audio on the Blu-ray edition)
  • Audio commentary by Festival producer Lou Adler and Pennebaker
  • Video interview with Adler and Pennebaker
  • Audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby
  • Photo-essay by photographer Elaine Mayes
  • Original theatrical trailer and radio spots
  • Monterey Pop Festival scrapbook
  • PLUS: A booklet featuring essays by critics Michael Lydon, Barney Hoskyns, and Armond White

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Film Essays

Monterey Pop: The First Rock Festival - Part Two

By Michael Lydon November 11, 2002

Continued from Monterey Pop: The First Rock Festival - Part One Sunday afternoon was Shankar, and one felt a return to peace. And yet there was Read more »

A Bloody Battle over Monterey Pop Festival

By Jann WennerNovember 11, 2002

April 6, 1968 MONTEREY—A second Monterey International Pop Festival has for the past month been put in jeopardy by a vicious handful of citizens Read more »

The Meeting of the ’Twain: Monterey and the Great California Divide

By Barney HoskynsNovember 11, 2002

“TRAVELING UP the Coast from the ruins of the Sunset Strip to the Haight is a Dante-esque ascent,” New Yorker Richard Goldstein Read more »

Monterey Pop: People In Motion

By Armond WhiteNovember 11, 2002

A new era in popular music deserves a new era in filmmaking. That’s the basis of the perfect, fortuitous match-up between rock and cinema in D.A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Read more »

Anatomy of a Love Festival - Part Two

By Robert ChristgauNovember 11, 2002

Continued from Anatomy of a Love Festival - Part One The real turn-on, though, was the music—twenty-two hours of it, divided into solid chunks that usually Read more »

Monterey Pop: The First Rock Festival - Part One

By Michael Lydon November 11, 2002

The Monterey International Pop Festival is over, all over. And what was it? Was it one festival, many festivals, a festival at all? Does anything Read more »

Monterey Pop Artist Bios - Part Three

By Bruce EderNovember 11, 2002

Saturday night Hugh Masekela (1939 - ) Ever since the mid-1960s, Hugh Masekela has been recognized as one of the leaders in world music and fusion jazz Read more »

Monterey Pop Artist Bios - Part Four

By Bruce EderNovember 11, 2002

Sunday night The Blues Project Danny Kalb—Lead guitar, vocals Steve Katz—Rhythm guitar, vocals Andy Kulberg—Bass, flute Roy Blumenfeld—Drums John McDuffy—Keyboards Read more »

Monterey Pop Artist Bios - Part Five

By Bruce EderNovember 11, 2002

The Jimi Hendrix Experience Jimi Hendrix—Guitar, vocals Noel Redding—Bass Mitch Mitchell—Drums It was the performance of Jimi Hendrix at Monterey that made Read more »

Monterey Pop Artist Bios - Part One

By Bruce EderNovember 11, 2002

Friday night The Association Terry Kirkman—Vocals, brass, reeds, harmonica, percussion Ted Bluechel, Jr.—Drums Jim Yester—Vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards Read more »

Monterey Pop Artist Bios - Part Two

By Bruce EderNovember 11, 2002

Country Joe and the Fish Country Joe McDonald—Lead vocals, guitar Bruce Barthol—Bass, guitar Barry Melton—Lead guitar David Cohen—Keyboards Gary “Chicken” Read more »


Clippings

Talking Shop:
Pennebaker and Hegedus

April 29, 2010

Individually and as partners, D. A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus have created some of the most electrifying cinema verité films of all time, from pioneering Read more »