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Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival dvd movie. Home » DVD Movies » Music Video/Concerts » Artists » Jimi Hendrix Artists • Rolling Stones Artists • Billie Holiday Artists • Count Basie Artists • Muddy Waters Artists • Stevie Ray Vaughan Artists • N Sync Artists • Paul Simon Artists • Eurythmics Artists • Johnny Cash Artists • Ozzy Osbourne Artists • Megadeth Artists • Motley Crue Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival buy bestselling dvd movies, videos find reviews, ratings, prices List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $9.98 Features • Color • Compilation • DVD-Video • Live • NTSC In Theaters : 21 February, 1997 DVD Release : 10 December, 1997 [ + Zoom ]   [ Buy Now ] DVD : Usually ships in 24 hours Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival description This documentary by Murray Lerner (From Mao to Mozart) was shot in 1970, but for many reasons was not shown to the public until 1995 in Great Britain. In an important way, it is the final chapter in an unofficial trilogy of concert films (along with Woodstock and Gimme Shelter) that together paint a picture of the highest and lowest points of Woodstock Nation politics: from mass goodwill to anarchy to outright stupidity. On the one hand, Message to Love is a rock & roll movie with several performances that are outright revelations (the Who's triumphant show, the Doors' "The End"), some that are awfully good (Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun"), and more than enough that are superfluous (Ten Days After, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, Jethro Tull). On the other hand, Lerner's cameras are trained on the increasingly testy relationship between nomadic hippies who travel a long way to see the show but refuse to pay, and concert producers who resort to using guard dogs, cops, and aluminum walls to keep crashers at a distance. Just how bad does the mood become after several days of this? Check out the scene in which Joni Mitchell breaks down in tears after singing her ode to peace and love, "Woodstock," before this lot. In an era when we've become used to extraordinary security and high ticket prices at rock concerts, it's perhaps hard to grasp what the fuss was about at the Isle of Wight. But Lerner's amazing film helps a viewer get a sense of what was really at stake in that period before rock & roll was a corporate matter, and when kids naively thought it was theirs for the taking. --Tom Keogh Message to Love - The Isle of Wight Festival Customer Reviews   1     2     3   ♥♥♥♥♥ This movie is heaven I don't get the criticism of this movie. Firstly, it's damn cheap - so whatever you get is value. Secondly, I've never bothered to watch the actual movie all the way through - all I'm interested in is the music. I go straight to the titles section where you can just watch the performances uncut. That's what I wanted, and what I get is the most fantastic performances by The Who, Doors, and some bands which either aren't available anywhere else (such as Family and Ten Years After) or some bands for whom one or two performances are enough for me (such as Jimi Hendrix, Free, Taste and Leonard Cohen). For me, that's the beauty of buying a Festival movie - fairly short clips of bands. If I want more, I buy a DVD of that band. Since buying this movie, I've been inspired to buy more by The Who and Emerson, Lake & Palmer, whereas it has put me off buying anything by Jimi, much as I like his music (on CD).   1     2     3   Non User