Synopsis
Explores the music scene in Greenwich Village, New York in the '60s and early '70s. The film highlights some of the finest singer/songwriters of the day.
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Cast
- Susan SarandonSuze Rotolo (voice)
- Richie HavensSelf
- Don McLeanSelf
- Tom PaxtonSelf
- Happy TraumSelf
- José FelicianoSelf
- Judy CollinsSelf
- Arlo GuthrieSelf
- Kris KristoffersonSelf
- John SebastianSelf
Recommendations
- 75
New York Post
Perhaps the most fascinating vintage footage...depicts what happened in 1961 when the city sent police into Washington Square Park to stop the longtime Sunday practice of singing without a required permit. - 70
The New York Times
Evokes the flavor of the era just before the music business exploded into a mass-market juggernaut. The film's pleasures are the same ones offered by a sprawling, lavishly illustrated magazine spread. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A history lesson that holds some pleasures even for those who know its material by heart. - 70
Variety
A most enjoyable flashback. Laura Archibald's documentary about Ground Zero for the 1960s folk explosion -- and its enormous influence on the shape of rock music to come -- isn't assembled in a particularly distinctive manner, but the materials and voices culled offer more than enough reward in themselves. - 38
Slant Magazine
Director Laura Archibald's approach is fatally safe, often turning poets into self-congratulatory windbags.