Michael Lang

Michael Lang

Movies for Michael Lang...

Title: Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
Character: Himself
Released: August 3, 2022
Type: TV
Woodstock 1969 promised peace and music, but its '99 revival delivered days of rage, riots and real harm. Why did it go so horribly wrong?
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Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
Title: Woodstock 99: Peace, Love, and Rage
Character: Self
Released: July 23, 2021
Type: Movie
Explore Woodstock 99, a three-day music festival promoted to echo unity and counterculture idealism of the original 1969 concert but instead devolved into riots, looting and sexual assaults.
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Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Title: Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Character: Self (voice)
Released: May 24, 2019
Type: Movie
50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point of view of those who were on the ground, evokes the freedom, passion, community, and joy the three-day music festival created.
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Joe Cocker - Mad Dog with Soul
Title: Joe Cocker - Mad Dog with Soul
Character: Self
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: Movie
The turbulent life of soul and blues singer, the late Joe Cocker. A former gas fitter from Sheffield, catapulted to world stardom in 1969 at Woodstock with his legendary performance of the Beatles song, "A Little Help from My Friends". But in the early 1970s, Joe Cocker's inner demons nearly killed him. Overcoming his struggles with alcohol and drugs, he rebuilt his reputation as "one of the great primal rock and roll vocalists of all time" (Billy Joel's description). The film mixes Joe Cocker's own words, with rare archive. His wife (Pam Cocker) & family, friends and the legendary songwriters and musicians he collaborated with, tell Joe Cocker's story. The film has raw, historic, electric performance footage throughout. Extensive interviews of key people through his life include: Pam Cocker, Ben Fong-Torres (Rolling Stone magazine editor), Randy Newman, Jimmy Webb, Billy Joel, Rita Coolidge, Deric Dyer, Glyn Johns, and numerous others.
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Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
Title: Jimi Hendrix: The Road to Woodstock
Character: Himself
Released: January 10, 2014
Type: Movie
The definitive documentary record of one of Jimi Hendrix's most celebrated performances. It includes such signature songs as Purple Haze, Voodoo Child (Slight Return) and his rendition of the Star Spangled Banner, as well as interviews with Woodstock promoter Michael Lang and Hendrix band members Mitch Mitchell, Billy Cox, Larry Lee and Juma Sultan among others.
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Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Title: Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train a Comin'
Character: Self - Festival Promoter
Released: November 4, 2013
Type: Movie
An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70), probably the most talented and influential guitarist of the twentieth century: his humble beginnings in Seattle, his time in New York, his rise to fame in swinging London… Live fast, love hard, die young.
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Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Title: Saint Misbehavin': The Wavy Gravy Movie
Character: Self - Woodstock Creator & Producer
Released: December 8, 2010
Type: Movie
SAINT MISBEHAVIN’ reveals the true story of cultural phenomenon Wavy Gravy, a man whose commitment to making the world a better place has never wavered. Wavy Gravy is known as the MC of the Woodstock Festival, a hippie icon, a clown and even a Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavor. In Saint Misbehavin’ we meet a true servant to humanity, who carries his message through humor and compassion. The film weaves together intimate verite footage, reflections from an array of cultural and countercultural peers, and never-before-seen archival footage to tell a story that is bigger than the man himself.
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Title: Behind the Music
Character: Self
Released: August 17, 1997
Type: TV
An intimate look into the personal lives of pop music's greatest and most influential artists.
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Night of the Demon
Title: Night of the Demon
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 4, 1980
Type: Movie
When a group of Anthropology students head into the forest to investigate a series of Sasquatch attacks, the discover an immortal brain-blast of crazy hermits, mutilated Girl Scouts, and interspecies copulation.
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Gimme Shelter
Title: Gimme Shelter
Character: Self
Released: December 13, 1970
Type: Movie
A detailed chronicle of the famous 1969 tour of the United States by the British rock band The Rolling Stones, which culminated with the disastrous and tragic concert held on December 6 at the Altamont Speedway Free Festival, an event of historical significance, as it marked the end of an era: the generation of peace and love suddenly became the generation of disillusionment.
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Woodstock
Title: Woodstock
Character: Self - Executive Producer of Woodstock Festival
Released: March 26, 1970
Type: Movie
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of National Guard helicopters with food and medical assistance for the impromptu city of 500,000.