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Message to Love

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In 1970, 600,000 people descended on the Isle of Wight in England to watch a three-day music festival headlined by the Who, the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Shot during the festival but only completed 25 years later, Murray Lerner's documentary is equal parts nostalgia and critique, contrasting the festival's classic-rock performances with its chaotic planning and financial failure. This film shows this collision between ideals and commerce at the end of an era of change.

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Marjorie Baumgarten Austin Chronicle Rated: 3/5 Feb 21, 2001 Full Review Michael Atkinson Spin Lerner's document is a wizened squint at the tension between hippie idealism and the backstage laws of late capitalism. Dec 27, 2022 Full Review Brian J. Arthurs Beach Reporter (Southern California) Rated: 3/5 Oct 18, 2002 Full Review Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette ...an important anthropological and historical record of a moment in our cultural history Rated: A- Aug 29, 2002 Full Review Bob Grimm Las Vegas Mercury Rated: 3/5 Aug 13, 2002 Full Review Steve Rhodes Internet Reviews The music's power dominates. Rated: 3/4 Feb 21, 2001 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Bob Dylan, The Who, and Jimi Hendrix were the stars of the great show. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/23/23 Full Review Audience Member Very Important, But I don't like hippies. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Der skulle en ha vært,glimrende doku om festivalen som gi litt skeis,med masse digg musikk seff,men først og fremst en flott studie i hedonisme! Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member Leonard Cohen Live at The Isle of Wight (1970) Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member An amazing concert, only behind Woodstock in my opinion. From the Joni Mitchell, to Leonard Cohen, to Jimi Hendrix, to the hippie talking about marijuana on the toilet, its a great documentary. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis In 1970, 600,000 people descended on the Isle of Wight in England to watch a three-day music festival headlined by the Who, the Doors and Jimi Hendrix. Shot during the festival but only completed 25 years later, Murray Lerner's documentary is equal parts nostalgia and critique, contrasting the festival's classic-rock performances with its chaotic planning and financial failure. This film shows this collision between ideals and commerce at the end of an era of change.
Director
Murray Lerner
Producer
Murray Lerner
Screenwriter
Murray Lerner
Production Co
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Pulsar, Initial Film and Television
Genre
Documentary
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Dec 9, 1997
Box Office (Gross USA)
$143.4K
Runtime
2h 8m