Rock and Rail! A fabulously entertaining train ride with some of the best concert footage ever recorded. Janis Joplin at her very finest (being too young to have seen her perform live, I now finally understand what all the fuss was about!), the Grateful Dead rock the house down, and The Band show us why they, the best band in the world, made the cover of Time Magazine that summer. But the most special stuff on show here is on the train itself, as we're privileged to witness an intimate portrait of some of rock music's most important legends partying and singing their way across America (Canada, in this case, but along the US border nonetheless), almost unaware of the camera (and when can you ever see that nowadays!). Picture and sound which has to be seen and heard to be believed, and best of all, the wonderfully detached humour the director brings to the forefront, this film, more than any other I've seen, lets us see for ourselves what the sixties were really like...
Review of Festival Express
