Tag Archives: Concert Film

Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982)

“Welcome to the Ronald Reagan Memorial Bowl!” For four nights during the month of September 1980, Monty Python held court at the legendary Hollywood Bowl to an audience of about 8,000 per show. “[It] tickled all of us,” Michael Palin … Continue reading

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Monterey Pop (1968)

With Michael Wadleigh’s Woodstock (1970) gradually transforming from an engrossing concert film to a Shoah-long historical document, I find myself increasingly valuing D. A. Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop (1968). At just 79 (count ’em!) minutes, the great documentarian’s compilation of the … Continue reading

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The Song Remains the Same (1976)

By the time Led Zeppelin’s The Song Remains the Same was finally released, the band hardly cared anymore.  They needed to put something out; the car accident which had left Robert Plant and his family with severe injuries had placed … Continue reading

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