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Essential Video The first big rock concert, the documentary filmmaker who invented the form. DA Pennebaker (who teamed with Richard Leacock, Albert Maysles, and other filmmakers here) Fresh off his Bob Dylan documentary, Do not Look Back, captured the music and the scene of the first true Rock & Roll Festival. The Monterey Pop Festival of 1967, which laid the groundwork for Woodstock two years later, he offered a series of incredible talent that was absolutely of the moment. And as the years have shown, this music was the test of time: from the young Janis Joplin blow the crowd with "Ball and Chain" of an instrument-smashing performance by the WHO 's soul surprisingly overwhelming results by Otis Redding. A particular strength: the American debut of a little known rock trio called The Jimi Hendrix Experience, which brought the crowd their sites with a guitar sound that had never heard before - and culminated with Hendrix setting his guitar…
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In his masterpiece of the order of color: Kagemusha (The Shadow Warrior), director Akira Kurosawa returned to the samurai film and to a main theme of his celebrated career of the play between illusion and reality. Sumptuously reconstruction splendor of feudal Japan and the pageantry of war, Kurosawa creates a soaring historical epic is also a sad meditation on the nature of power.…
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