Warner Home Video has announced that they have bumped up the release date of '
Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music Directors Cut 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collectors Edition' to June 9th, day-and-date with the DVD release. This box set will feature two hours extra hours of performances from 13 groups who played at the legendary festival, but never made it onto the film, along with a reprint of Life magazine commemorative issue, a lucite lenticular display of festival photos, assorted memorabilia and an iron-on patch with the classic bird-and-guitar Woodstock emblem.
Technical specs have not been announced at this time, but you can expect a 1080p VC-1 video presentation along with a 5.1 Dolby TrueHD soundtrack.
The disc-by-disc breakdown includes:
Disc One
- Film (Director's Cut), Part 1 128:38 min
- The Museum at BethelWoods: The Story of the Sixties & Woodstock
Disc Two
- Film (Director's Cut), Part 2 95:34 min
Disc Three
- Woodstock: Untold Stories 18 Performances as never before seen
- Woodstock: From Festival to Feature Interviews of the sights and sounds of the 3 day event, from concert goers, promoters, crew and musicians
Exclusive to the Blu-ray release will be:
- Customize Your Own WoodstockPlaylist (from the 18 bonus performances)
- This feature allows you to customize your own personal jukebox playlist from more than a dozen live Woodstock performances as never been seen.
- BD-Live features include MediaCenter, My WB Commentary, & Live Community Screening
- MediaCenteris a hub for trailers, features and content
- You can get sneak peeks of upcoming Warner Bros. films, and rate trailers
- You can access to Exclusive Content such as interviews, featurettes, and more only seen through WB BD-Live
- You can access Photo Galleries and other special features
- Live Community Screenings allow you to send invitations to fans and friends across the country for virtual screenings at a specified time and chat online with each other as the movie plays on each person's Blu-ray player. You can host your own Live Community Screening with your buddy list or participate in a WB hosted Warner Bros. BD-Live community event
- My WB Commentary lets you record and post a Picture-in-Picture commentary right over the film, then share it and rate it. Using a web-camera, you can record your own comments and play them back as a Picture-in-Picture feature over the film scene you have chosen and share it with your friends or the entire Warner Bros. BD-Live Community
Additional info:
Band Roster (22 Bands)
- Arlo Guthrie
- Canned Heat
- Country Joe & the Fish
- Country Joe McDonald
- Creedence Clearwater Revival
- Crosby, Stills, NashGrateful Dead Janis Joplin Jefferson Airplane
- Jimi Hendrix
- Joan Baez
- Joe Cocker
- John Sebastian
- Johnny Winter
- Mountain
- Paul Butterfield Blues Band
- Richie Havens
- Santana
- Sha-Na-Na
- Sly & The Family Stone
- Ten Years After
- The Who
18 Bonus Performances
- Joan Baez “One Day at a Time”
- Country Joe McDonald “Flying High”
- Santana “Evil Ways”
- Canned Heat “I'm Her Man” and “On the Road Again”
- Mountain “Beside the Sea” and “Southbound Train”
- Grateful Dead “Turn On Your Love Light”
- Creedence Clearwater Revival “Born on the Bayou”, “I've Put a Spell on You” and “Keep on Chooglin'”
- The Who “We're Not Going To Take It” and “My Generation”
- Jefferson Airplane “3/5 of a Mile in 10 Seconds”
- Joe Cocker “Something's Coming On”
- Johnny Winter “Mean Town Blues”
- Paul Butterfield “Morning Sunrise”
- Sha Na Na “Teen Angel”
Woodstock: From Festival to Film
- The Camera: The Éclair NPR was the best camera around in 1969; Michael Wadleigh talks about why the Éclair was the right camera for this film.
- 365,000 Feet of Film: The stories of how Dale Bell and his crew begged, borrowed and stole just enough film to document the festival.
- Shooting Stage: Those up-close shots of performers didn't just happen by magic; see how Wadleigh and his cameramen got those up close and personal shots of the performers.
- The Line Up: The Who, Sha Na Na, Santana, Ten Years After, Jefferson Airplane and many more; how did all these bands get on the roster for the festival of a life time?
- Holding the Negative Hostage: What does a filmmaker do when Technicolor is sending a copy of your negative to the studio without your permission? Well, you lock up the film and hire a lawyer.
- Announcements: “Don't take the brown acid” or maybe it was green. We'll hear about all the strange and informative announcements heard during those three days of peace, love and enlightenment.
- Suits VS. Longhairs: The clash between the hippie filmmakers and the Warner executives who didn't understand what this film meant.
- Documenting History: Find out from Michael Wadleigh and Dale Bell, along with filmmakers, where the idea of capturing this event on film came from.
- Woodstock: The Journey: Some came by car, others by truck, a few came by helicopter but most walked to the most famous festival in history.
- Pre-Production: We'll find out how this production got off the ground and meet the members of the crew that made it happen.
- Production: How many cameras were used? How much film did they go through? Did anyone sleep? All these questions and more will be answered here as we explore how Woodstock was captured on film.
- Synchronization: How do you sync all this material with out any slates? No slate, no problem. With the help of an upright Moviola, Dale Bell, Michael Wadleigh, Eddie Kramer and the editors were able to make magic from miles of tape and film.
- The Crowd: Half a million people of all colors, shapes, sizes, ages and sexes attended this historical event. We'll hear stories about the number of people and how they all coexisted for three days with only minor incidents.
- No Rain! No Rain!: Everyone talks about the rain at this event as if it were a character. It was. It set the tone, provided moments of danger, fun and disgust.
- 3 Days in a Truck: Eddie Kramer heard some of the most amazing performances as he recorded this historic event. But during those three days of peace, love and music, he didn't get to see any performances because he was stuck in a truck.
- WoodstockEffect: The film, the event and the album catapulted many musicians into the limelight, changing their lives forever.
- Living up to Idealism
- World's Longest Optical
- Critical Acclaim
- Courtesy of The Museum at BethelWoods: The Hog Farm Commune
- Hugh Hefner and Michael Wadleigh: The WoodstockConnection