The granddaddy of all rock n' roll documentaries, "Woodstock" is a one of a kind movie experience. Not just for the chance to see Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, and The Who performing at the height of their powers. But also for what happens off stage.

Actually, the music is the least interesting part of the film. What registers four decades after the fact, are the thousands of young faces that pop up between sets, stoned and smiling in their muddy hippie Eden, spreading the good vibes and letting their freak flags fly as they skinnydip, dance, and avoid the dreaded brown acid.

Just released in a huge, hulking new box set, "Woodstock: The 40th Anniversary Ultimate Collector's Edition", is almost ridiculously stuffed with extras and groovy packaging. The nearly four-hour film is spread out over three discs that come housed in a box upholstered in suede fringe.

If David Crosby is ever reincarnated as an over-the-top DVD gift set, you're looking at it. All that's missing is a commemorative roach clip and the scent of patchouli oil. Inside, the film holds up amazingly well as a time capsule of the '60s, as director Michael Wadleigh and his fearless crew of cameramen and editors (including a young Martin Scorsese) fanned out to document the bands, the bliss, and the chaos.

Even if you've seen the movie before, there's plenty that's new here that makes it worth checking out again. In fact, the entire third disc is devoted to performances that were cut from the original film, some of which like Canned Heat's blues boogey "On the Road Again" are as good as anything that made the first cut. The Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, even Sha Na Na, make appearances in front of the real stars of the film: the 400,000 kids in the audience whose little weekend of peace, love, and music is still being watched and talked about 40 years later.

Now for a look at what else is new on DVD: in "The Seventh Seal", Ingmar Bergman's Swedish arthouse classic gets a spiffy new facelift; in "Three Stooges Vol. 6", the trio of knuckleheads gets a box set; and in "What's Up Tiger Lily?", Woody Allen has fun dubbing comedy shtick over a strange Japanese film.