Janis Joplin, Simon and Garfunkel, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix and Ravi Shankar are merely a few of the legendary artists who grace the stage and screen in D.A. Pennebaker’s renowned documentary Monterey Pop. Filmed during the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival in Northern California, Pennebaker’s film brought the festival to mass audiences, and with it the well-deserved attention paid toward previously hidden talents — Hendrix, Joplin and Redding among them. Without Pennebaker’s footage, we would have never seen Hendrix’s iconic guitar-torching, or The Who trashing their gear after blasting through an electrifying performance of “My Generation.” Additionally, the counterculture and The Summer of Love might not have found its way to New York — where Woodstock would be held just two years later — had it not been for Pennebaker’s film. And for one night only, the Belcourt will be screening a 4K digital restoration of the film. ZACH GILCHRIEST
Monterey Pop
