Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
Having it large screen … Glastonbury the Movie. Photograph: Mensch Films LtdView image in fullscreenHaving it large screen … Glastonbury the Movie. Shot at the 1993 festival, it serves as a heady curative to today’s digital saturation: no mobile phones, no corporate logos, just tens of thousands of people unselfconsciously having it large in one of those blessed years when the sun god smiled on the Glastonbury populace.
- ▪Having it large screen … Glastonbury the Movie.
- ▪Photograph: Mensch Films LtdView image in fullscreenHaving it large screen … Glastonbury the Movie.
- ▪Shot at the 1993 festival, it serves as a heady curative to today’s digital saturation: no mobile phones, no corporate logos, just tens of thousands of people unselfconsciously having it large in one of those blessed years when the sun god
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Having it large screen … Glastonbury the Movie. Photograph: Mensch Films LtdView image in fullscreenHaving it large screen … Glastonbury the Movie. Photograph: Mensch Films LtdMoviesReviewGlastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory Coinciding with a fallow year for the festival, these scenes filmed in 1993 record a youth culture innocent of camera phones and low on corporate hypePhil HoadFri 26 Jun 2026 04.00 EDTLast modified on Fri 26 Jun 2026 04.01 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleWith Glastonbury in a fallow year, anyone missing their dose of West Country bacchanalia will have to settle for this handsome documentary, remastered in 4K and rereleased for its 30th anniversary.
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