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05/13/09
Glastonbury (2007)
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Reviews Counted:28
Fresh:22
Rotten:6
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: Glastonbury is formless and scattershot, and successful in capturing the festival's raw, wild energy.
Runtime: 2 hrs 18 mins
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Glastonbury is now the best known, longest running and most pre-eminent music festival in the world. Fuelled by a staggering range of music, the movie will embrace the spirit, characters and... [More]
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04/23/09
Combining images of 30 years of politics, music, self-expression and alternative living, it's a vibrant, if inevitably scattered, film that manages to tread the fine line between chronicling the festival and exploiting it.
06/08/07
An alternately rousing and repetitive 138-minute documentary spanning four decades of the Glastonbury Festival.
05/31/07
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05/12/07
The sense of total immersion is breathlessly complete.
04/13/07
... captures the open-air rock festival experience more completely than any previous film of its kind.
04/09/07
... as muddy as Yasgur's farm back in the day.
04/07/07
For all the posers with light sticks and piercings, there are moments of Dada-esque beauty, not to mention some great music from Tinariwen, Bjork, David Bowie and the late, great Joe Strummer.
04/05/07
Top CriticWhat [Temple] does...is immerse his audience in the spirit of the festival with ingenious editing that shows the Glastonbury Festival as nothing short of a geographically bound society that just happens to exist for a few days a year.
03/25/07
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03/10/07
While the movie will clarify whether or not the fest is for you, you never feel like you're actually there.
03/08/07
The movie's 135 minutes [feels] long. But the length is a product of [director] Temple's desire to cram in as much as he can. Despite the festival's drawbacks, it's obvious Temple loves everything about it. Even Coldplay.
03/08/07
The portrait is spectacular and inclusive, if sometimes a bit overwhelming and confusing.
03/08/07
Overlong, unfocused, and shallow, it is less a film than a test of endurance.
03/03/07
A warm and witty, detailed look at this parallel universe.
03/02/07
Temple is able to convey a perceptive and substantive mood pertaining to the staying power of this weirdly nuanced outdoor finger-snapping function.
02/25/07
The film is clearly an act of boosterism, and it makes a pretty good case for the Glastonbury cause.
02/24/07
Julien Temple's formless documentary Glastonbury aims to capture the festival's chaos and free-wheeling freakiness and accomplishes this goal.
02/23/07
The overall soundtrack seamlessly patches together a sonic quilt of eclectic music that evokes a kind of timeless flow. It's not a Glastonbury of any particular vintage, but rather a continuum of experiences that have occurred on this sacred ground.
02/22/07
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