Movies like Michael Moore's Sicko and One of Them Is Named Brett (a documentary by the event's host, Roger Graef, on thalidomide children) can change attitudes and, eventually, government policy.
(It is captured in the 1970 movie documentary of the event: "The important thing that you've proven to the world is that a half million people can get together," he says, "and have nothing but fun and music. And God bless you for it").
To mark the 10th anniversary of the "Concert for George," YouTube is streaming David Leland's documentary on the event for 24 hours.
We're only a documentary, but the event is very democratic, everyone is given the same amount of time to talk.
In Murray Lerner's documentary of the event, Message To Love, immediately after Woodstock, an aging American hippie called Yogi Joe invades the stage.
Then, next week, we'll be back with one episode looking at a fantastic documentary about the event that gave birth to the gay rights movement, and another episode about a beautiful and riveting drama from Italy starring Tilda Swinton.
That surreal situation has been playing out over the past week in this Eastern European capital, where less than six months after a series of bloody street protests toppled a pro-Russian leader, a new documentary about the event has elicited polarized reactions among the very people who lived it.
The feature-length film, directed by the "12 Years A Slave" screenwriter and "American Crime" showrunner John Ridley, is one of a slew of documentaries marking the event's twenty-fifth anniversary.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet With the Cannes Film Festival under way, French Institute Alliance Française offers a two-month tribute to the world-cinema showcase, starting with a trio of documentaries about the event by its longtime president, Gilles Jacob, and including such Cannes-associated classics as Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket" and Milos Forman's "Loves of a Blonde".
Movies Cannes-Do With the Cannes Film Festival under way, French Institute Alliance Française offers a two-month tribute to the world-cinema showcase, starting with a trio of documentaries about the event by its longtime president, Gilles Jacob, and including such Cannes-associated classics as Robert Bresson's "Pickpocket" and Milos Forman's "Loves of a Blonde".
