Film
Monterey Pop
- Director
- D.A. Pennebaker
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 78 mins
The first great festival movie, which is memorable chiefly for Jimi Hendrix following an incendiary performance by The Who by pulling out all the stops with a career-making show that includes the legendary guitar conflagration.
Other highlights include Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Country Joe and one of the last performances by The Mamas and the Papas. You can also spot a stoned Brian Jones shuffling about in the crowd. Mind you, 15 minutes of Ravi Shankar is more than sufficient for all but the most masochistic world music enthusiast. The only serious omission is the Grateful Dead. Legend has it their songs went on so long that D.A. Pennebaker’s cameras ran out of film. This Cinema Rediscovered screening is introduced by the Watershed’s cinema curator, Mark Cosgrove.
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