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Festival Express is a British film of genre Musical theatre with Levon Helm
Festival Express (2003)
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Add to a movie listLength 1h30
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films about music and musicians, Transport films, Rail transport films, Documentary films about music and musicians, Documentaire sur une personnalité, Documentary films about technology, Musical films
Rating73%
Festival Express is a 2003 documentary film about the 1970 train tour of the same name across Canada taken by some of North America's most popular rock bands, including Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, The Band and Delaney & Bonnie & Friends. The film combines live footage shot during the 1970 concerts, as well as footage aboard the train itself, interspersed with present-day interviews with tour participants sharing their often humorous recollections of the events.
The film, released by THINKFilm, was produced by Gavin Poolman (son of the original 1970 film shoot's producer, Willem Poolman) together with John Trapman, and directed by double Grammy Award-winner Bob Smeaton (The Beatles Anthology), with music produced by Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin), and features original footage shot in 1970 by Academy Award-winning cinematographer Peter Biziou (Mississippi Burning, Pink Floyd: The Wall, The Truman Show). The original 1970 footage was filmed by director Frank Cvitanovich. A DVD release followed the film's 2003 theatrical run.
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Cinq jours durant l'été 1970, des artistes américains aussi légendaires que Janis Joplin, The Band ou encore The Grateful Dead voyagèrent à travers le Canada, se livrant à de superbes prestations scéniques à Toronto, Winnipeg et Calgary.Actors
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