Glastonbury is a documentary film released in 2006 about , you guessed it, Glastonbury music festival. It was directed by Julien Temple who is also responsible for directing other music films and dvds (such as music videos for Blur). I was expecting alot from this, being fan of many different styles of music and many of which featured on this doc. however i would rank this film under Disappointing. The main reason is, it didn't tell you much. One main purposes of a documentary is to inform and at same time entertain, this struggles to do both. What it does do well is capture the feeling of the times and vibes connecting with gigs such as Glastonbury or Reading, with use of archive clips. I did learn that the earlier glastonburys looked insane with hippie types stripping and dancing, setting things on fire and chanting, much like a cult lol. So it did well in showing great footage, but well, thats about all it had to its name. It starts off tracking home made videos of a group of people who attended a recent glastonbury and i thought "oh this is cool, from eyes of fans , real and gonna be interesting see how they got on". However that soon stops. They pull out all this clips and they go on for ages. Like you can be watching an archive clip of people dancing for like 5 mins at a time (and they use it alot) with no narration or interviews. The few interviews it did have were quite funny and interesting (such as a few from owner of the land) but there just wasn't enough. It showed near whole songs by bands. It actually felt vety much like watching it on TV, you wait ages to watch the song you want, then something else comes on.
It's mainly that i didn't learn much i didn't already know, it was alot about the old glastonbury's not much about new ones or anything leading up to them. As i say it catches the vibe well but just doesn't work well as a documentary.
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