Monterey Pop (1968)

Directed by

D. A. Pennebaker

Genre

documentary film, rockumentary

Country

Denmark, United States

Runtime

1h 19m

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 96 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1968 concert film captures the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival in California. It shows performances by major 1960s acts including Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Otis Redding.

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What happens

Monterey Pop is a 1968 American concert film by D. A. Pennebaker that documents the Monterey International Pop Festival of 1967. Among Pennebaker's several camera operators were fellow documentarians Richard Leacock and Albert Maysles. The painter Brice Marden has an "assistant camera" credit. Titles for the film were by the illustrator Tomi Ungerer. Featured performers include Big Brother and the Holding Company with Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Hugh Masekela, Otis Redding, Ravi Shankar, the Mamas & the Papas, the Who (who also besides Hendrix destroyed equipment on stage), and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, whose namesake set his guitar on fire, broke it on the stage, then threw the neck of his guitar in the crowd at the end of "Wild Thing". In 2018, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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