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| | Robert Christgau: Found Weekend: The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 |
 | | The film is fine fun the way Lerner constructed it, as a basically comic critique of the two historical forces that can be said to have battled over the aforementioned preconditions, the more material of which was just then disappearing from the face of the earth as our industrialized standard of living stopped rising. |
 | | The anonymous radicals are lost to history, while the promoters, Ray and Ron Falk and Ricky Farr, lack even the paltry mythic resonance of John Phillips, Mike Lang, and Melvin Belli, who personify power in the other movies. |
 | | Lerner, in fact, doesn't bother to provide their last names, which I obtained from Isle of Wight native Mike Plumbley, coauthor of the self-published Isle of Wight Rock: A Music Anthology (Isle of Wight Rock Archives, Palmer's Forge, Newport Road, Niton, Isle of Wight, U.K.). |
| www.robertchristgau.com /xg/rock/wight-96.php (1025 words) |
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