Garcia’s formative influence was bluegrass banjo legend Earl Scruggs. Frankenstein’s monster is, after all, a drive to reanimate, or to produce life, and it hit me in that archetypal center.”Ģ. “It might have been the thing of a dead thing brought to life. “It touched something, I don’t know what, something very strong,” Garcia says. The interview, taped for a television program called The Movie That Changed My Life, returns at the end of the documentary, providing closure. Images and film clips from Frankenstein films recur throughout the documentary. He recalls seeing Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein in 1948, one year after his father had drowned. “I used to draw pictures of the Frankenstein monster over and over, endlessly, in different positions,” Garcia says near the start of Long Strange Trip, his voice playing over a montage of his sketches. Jerry Garcia was obsessed with Frankenstein. The second half is more wayward and contemplative, with exploratory detours into the Deadhead experience and the tape-trading phenomenon, yet it builds inexorably to the band’s incandescent commercial peak before turning to Garcia’s harrowing decline.Įvery Awful Thing Trump Has Promised to Do in a Second Termġ. Much of the first half presents familiar themes in discrete episodes, served up at a measured pace: Garcia’s childhood the band’s unlikely coalescing psychedelic hijinks and rustic retreats and the tragic 1973 death of co-founder Ron “Pigpen” McKernan. In structure and pacing, Long Strange Trip, which opens in theaters Friday, and then comes to Amazon Prime Video June 2nd, resembles a classic Dead show. What the film chronicles, imaginatively and unflinchingly, is the flowering of an exuberant American counterculture – its triumph, its corruption and the toll exacted at either extreme – as viewed through the prism of a singular band of anarchists and their charismatic yet unwilling ringmaster, Jerry Garcia. Dolby Digital 2.It sounds like a punch line: “There’s a new Grateful Dead documentary – and it’s four hours long.” But Long Strange Trip, directed by Amir Bar-Lev ( The Tillman Story, Happy Valley) and executive-produced by Martin Scorsese, is no amiably noodling shuffle through a defunct band’s yellowed back pages.Dolby Digital 5.1 audio mix on all bonus songs, mixed from the master multitrack tapes.Bonus songs transferred from the 16mm camera-original film negative.China Cat Sunflower ➢ I Know You Rider.The Other One ➢ Spanish Jam ➢ Mind Left Body Jam ➢ The Other One.More than 95 minutes of bonus concert footage, including: Uncle John’s Band Total running time of Disc 1: Approximately 132 minutes English subtitles option on entire movie.Feature-length commentary with supervising editor Susan Crutcher and film editor John Nutt.PCM 2.0 audio mix, mixed from the master multitrack tapes.DTS 5.1 audio mix, mixed from the master multitrack tapes.5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio presentation of the original theatrical audio mix.The Grateful Dead Movie in its entirety, transferred from the original 35mm film negative in High Definition and presented in 1.78:1 widescreen aspect ratio Shout! Factory is reissuing the fan favorite deluxe 2-disc version, including a DVD loaded with an extensive slate of bonus features - five hours of content in all! Co-directed by Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead Movie was originally released in 1977, and captures performances from five October 1974 shows at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom.