The complete Monterey Pop Festival
By: 3 films by D.A. Pennebaker
Contributors: Hegedus, Chris, director; Hendrix, Jimi, performer; Redding, Otis, 1941-1967, performer; McKenzie, Scott, 1939-2012, performer
Edition: Blu-ray special edition.
Series: The Criterion collection -- 167; Criterion collection -- 167.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Monterey International Pop Festival (1967 : Monterey, Calif.)
Other titles: Monterey pop (Motion picture); Jimi plays Monterey (Motion picture); Shake! Otis at Monterey (Motion picture)
Notes: Originally released as motion pictures in 1968 and 1986.

DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, full screen 1.33:1.

Booklet with essays by critics Michael Chaiken, Armond White, David Fricke, Barney Hoskyns, and Michael Lydon in container.

Features: Monterey pop: two hours of performances not included in the film, audio commentary from 2002 featuring Pennebaker and festival producer Lou Adler, new and archival interviews with Adler and Pennebaker, Chiefs (1968), a short film by Richard Leacock, audio interviews with festival producer John Phillips, festival publicist Derek Taylor, and performers Cass Elliot and David Crosby, photo essay by Elaine Mayes, festival program, trailers and radio spots; Jimi plays Monterey: audio commentary by music critic and historian Charles Shaar Murray, trailer, video excerpt of Pete Townshend discussing Jimi Hendrix; Shake! Otis at Monterey: two audio commentaries by music critic and historian Peter Guralnick, the first on Otis Redding's Monterey performance, song-by-song, the second on Redding before and after Monterey, interview with Redding's manager Phil Walden.

Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Scott McKenzie, Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, the Mamas and the Papas, Canned Heat, Hugh Masekela, Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and The Holding Company, Eric Burdon and the Animals, the Who, Country Joe and the Fish, Ravi Shankar.

Filmed live at the Monterey International Pop Festival, Monterey, California, June 1967.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

These are Blu-ray discs made for Blu-ray disc players and will not play in standard DVD players.

For private home use only.
Table of contents: title: Monterey pop (1968) / produced by John Phillips, Lou Adler ; directed by D.A. Pennebaker; title: Jimi plays Monterey (1986) / producer, Alan Douglas ; directed by D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus; title: Shake! Otis at Monterey (1986) / producer, Alan Douglas ; directed by D.A. Pennebaker.