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Festival
Directed by
Murray Lerner
Not Rated
1967
1h 37m
Documentary
,
Music
7.5
100%
73%
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This documentary captures performances, interviews, and conversations from the 1963-1966 Newport Folk Festivals.
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Where to Watch Festival
Criterion Channel
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Cast of Festival
Horton Barker
Self
Fiddler Beers
Self
Theodore Bikel
Self
Pete Seeger
Self
Bob Dylan
Self
Howlin' Wolf
Self
Donovan
Self
Johnny Cash
Self
Judy Collins
Self
Mike Bloomfield
Self
Son House
Self
Brownie McGhee
Self
Sonny Terry
Self
Peter Yarrow
Self
Paul Stookey
Self
Mary Travers
Self
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Self
Joan Baez
Self
Mississippi John Hurt
Self
Murray Lerner
Director / Writer / Producer
Festival Ratings & Reviews
Nonfics (Substack)
Christopher Campbell
The film is lacking in temporal clarity, as well as context, exposition, narrative, and historical significance.
Los Angeles Free Press
Gene Youngblood
Festival is a perfect example in my view, of one of the few types of cinema in which filmic technique validly takes a secondary position to literary-musical content.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A solid music documentary that covers in B/W the Newport Folk Song Festival during the years 1963 to 1966.
Under the Radar
Austin Trunick
Festival makes viewers feel as if they're casually attending the [Newport Folk Festival], exploring the grounds, discovering artists and dropping in on sets.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
It would have been easy to get cheap laughs by cutting from the traditional performers to the college kids, but Lerner went for depth instead.
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