The Woodstock Festival held in 1969 over three days in August would not be fated as a short and mostly sweet gathering around music and instead bears the historical weight of a sprawling and chaotic youth bacchanal that defines how we think about the sixties. But how well do we remember Woodstock itself? Thanks to a 1994 director’s cut of the original 1970 film called Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music (that director being Michael Wadleigh), we are treated to almost four hours of sound and visuals that is nothing if not transportive. The Docn’ crew task ourselves with the good, the bad, the exaggerated and the wonderful in this legendary movie and cultural memory, call for more fringe, and are a little less than enthusiastic about how we might have enjoyed sleeping in mud had we been there.

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