Throughout, the era-defining yet problem-plagued music festival astounds in large part for all the disasters that didn’t occur.
Listen closely enough to Both Sides of the Sky, the third Jimi Hendrix collection released this decade, and you may hear the bottom of a barrel being scraped.
The film is made impetuously watchable and disarmingly emotional by the filmmakers’ strong command of docudrama and nonfiction narrative style.
People, Hell and Angels comprises 12 tracks that pop with an electricity born of Hendrix’s sense of forward motion.
The Red Light Bandit is an electric, legendary movie, one Brazilian cinephiles know practically by heart.
Those interested in seeing 18 bonus performances and a making-of documentary will have to spring for the much more expensive three-disc set.