Festival (1967)
Directed by Murray Lerner · 97 min · Documentary, Music
15.8 TOPICAL score · #4,957 of 6,776 films
Vote for it on the board →Black and white footage of performances, interviews, and conversations at the Newport Folk Festival, from 1963 to 1966. The headliners are Peter, Paul and Mary, Joan Baez, Pete Seeger, and Bob Dylan, who's acoustic and electric. Son House and Mike Bloomfield talk about the blues; John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, and Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee show its range. The Osborne Brothers perform bluegrass. Donovan, Johnny Cash, Judy Collins, Mimi and Dick Farina, and others less well known also perform. Several talk musical philosophy, and there's a running commentary about the nature and appeal of folk music. The crowd looks clean cut.
Festival (1967, directed by Murray Lerner) has a TOPICAL score of 15.8 - ranked 4,957 of the 6,776 films TOPICAL scores. It scores highest on critics and awards, and lowest on historical impact. It won 0 awards from 1 nomination. Critics: 100% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.3/10 critics' average. Audiences: TMDB 6/10 (12 ratings). Wikipedia covers it in 4 languages.
Why this score
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- Critics100% on Rotten Tomatoes · 8.3/10 critics' average
- AudienceTMDB 6/10 (12 ratings)
- Awards0 wins, 1 nomination
- ImpactWikipedia articles in 4 languages
- Still read1,003 Wikipedia readers in the last 60 days
Starring: Horton Barker, Fiddler Beers, Theodore Bikel (actor #718), Pete Seeger