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Glastonbury Fayre 1971 DVD

Nic Roeg    Suitable for 15 years and over   DVD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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  • Directors: Nic Roeg
  • Format: Anamorphic, Dolby, PAL
  • Region: All Regions
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: Odeon Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 8 Jun 2009
  • Run Time: 87 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0009FHL9Y
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 26,483 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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In the summer of 1971 the Glastonbury legend was born when the organisers decided to try and create a festival that would be a forerunner for an 'alternative and utopian society'. The festival encompassed Midsummer;s Day, and in true medieval tradition, the area of Worhty Farm, Pilton was given over to music, dance, poetry, theatre, spontaneous, entertainment and nudity. The aspiring director Nic Roeg (Don't Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth) took his film crew to the second Glastonbury festival and recorded the people, the music and their summer of love. The music of Terry Reid, Family, Melanie, Fairport Convention, Traffic, Linda Lewis and Arthur Brown are part of the legend of Glastonbury Fayre, but the real stars of this film are the festival goers, organisers Arabella Churchill and Andrew Kerr, and the first appearance of the pyramid stage. Unseen for over thirty years since its cinema release, Glastonbury Fayre has been digitally restored to create an unique record of a visionary music festival by one of Britain's greatest film directors. Special Features: Audio Commentary with Nic Roeg and Making Of Documentary.

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Won awards for Don't Look Now, The Man who fell to Earth, Performance, Walkabout

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars How it all began 23 Aug 2009
This is probably the best version you are going to see of this classic film. The colour has been retouched and doesn't look all washed out as it has on some versions of it. Its a great document of the classic beginnings of the monster festival, some great interviews and footage of the bands. Particularly here Traffic are amazing and the opener by Terry Reid is pretty dam good. You can see the original pyramid stage under construction and you can see this once was a real grass roots event. Quite a film, but im sad there was no footage of Gong, Hawkwind, the Pink Fairies, Edgar Broughton or Mr David Bowie all who were in attendance, still well worth getting and there is also a documentary on the making of the film, which is very informative.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Glastonbury Fair 11 April 2011
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Nic Roeg asked me if he could film Glastonbury Fair 1971.
I was staging the event with Arabella Churchill. Of course I said Yes. He shot 72 hours in 35mm and 16mm film. As there was not enough money for post production, only 1 hour 20 minutes was all that was saved. Real shame. For me the best performances were by Melanie and Terry Reid with Linda Lewis. I'm pleased to say that they will all be playing at this year's festival to celebrate the 40th anniversary.
I called it Fair - someone else put the y into it.
Why?
Andrew Kerr
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26 of 30 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential 26 Sep 2007
This film, more than any other I can think of from the period, really captures the true spirit of that wildy optomistic generation at perhaps the tail end of it's arc. At times, the stylistic nature of the film seems to suggest a mythological quality to the proceedings. At others, a more down to earth document is presented.
The air it seems, was full of good vibes (compare this to the ugly scenes of confrontation from the previous year's final Isle of Wight festival), perhaps the fact that this festival was free helped. The relatively low attendance probably also helped to create the special atmosphere seen here. Much is often made of how 'out of it' everyone was back then but things have hardly changed have they? One thing that has changed is how much less naive & more cynical we've all become.
But I didn't intend on writing a sociological essay, enough has already been written on those times.
More to the point, the music contained herein provides some of the films highlights, none more so than the great & half remembered Terry Reid whose loose & extremely soulful arrangement of his song 'Dean' is well worth the purchase of this disc alone. The song, like the film itself, really conjures up the spirit of the age.
In it, you can hear something so familiar, yet indefinable. The emotional pull of this performance sways me everytime. This defining moment appears early on in the film & serves to hold the viewer's attention from thereon. Many more magical musical moments follow, memorably, a mesmerizing Fairport Convention &
a deliriously deranged Arthur Brown along with early Gong, late Traffic etc...
Had the film crew managed to capture Bowie's dawn performance, this really would have been one of rock's 'holy grails'. However, as it stands, it's still one of the most compelling & important documents of it's time,
so don't delay, turn on & tune in today.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars simply the best festival DVD
This film isn't very long compared to some others ( say Woodstock), but that does leave you wanting more rather than less ! Read more
Published 6 months ago by noddy g
5.0 out of 5 stars Memories
I love this dvd. Reason: I'm on it - blink and you'll miss me but its incredibly moving (in a narcissistic vein) to see myself, slim, long haired and only 24.
Published on 29 Mar 2010 by Rick Gammon
4.0 out of 5 stars wish there was more music
nic roeg's commentary is hardly coherent, perhaps he was just feeling old and tired, poor bloke. but he says more than once that they "shot hours and hours of stuff" - so where is... Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2010 by Morgan Fisher
5.0 out of 5 stars Glastonbury 1971 Heaven
As a lot of people. I already had the VHS, stretched & grainy. So my DVD arrived in the post & guess what I did for the week. Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2009 by Mr. PJ Warren
4.0 out of 5 stars Glastonbury relived before 'Health and Safety' acts.
I think this is a collector's piece. If you know and love Glastonbury now, check out its past. Health and safety inspectors will turn grey watching it. Read more
Published on 3 Aug 2009 by Joyce J. Campbell
5.0 out of 5 stars Now its released I can tell you that its not a bootleg!
My previous negative review was due to the fact shoddy versions of this film have been issued before and it was not possible to tell if that was the case yet again until this DVD... Read more
Published on 18 Mar 2008 by Sir Elias Dee
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