It has been confirmed that Glastonbury The Movie is to return to cinema screens in restored 4K to mark what would have been Glasto weekend later this month.
Fans of the Worthy Farm venue will be able to watch the film over the big screen, somewhat soothing the disappointment of not having a Glastonbury show for real this year, as the festival takes a a fallow year for 2026.
Previously, Glastonbury had been put on hold in 2020 and 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, before returning in 2022, as well as running in 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Now, the '30th Anniversary Cut' of 1996's Glastonbury The Movie is to hit UK cinema screens on June 26.
The film was directed by Robin Mahoney, William Beaton, and Matthew Salkfield, capturing the 1993 festival on 35mm film. It has been described as “Unfiltered, un-narrated, and unlike anything else in British music film".
The description adds: “[It’s] the last of the great old-school Glastonburys, before the BBC arrived, before phone masts, biometric tickets and wall-to-wall coverage. A hundred thousand people in a Somerset field, completely unobserved, completely themselves".
“For the 30th anniversary, the film has been rebuilt in 4K from the original camera materials. The cut is restored. Scenes are added. The frame is wider than most audiences have ever seen it. And in 2026 – a fallow year for the festival itself – it is once again the only way to stand in that field", a synopsis of the film reads.
“The level of detail is astounding. In a big room, on a big screen, with the Dolby system turned up, it is a unique, time-machine journey into one of the best of the old-school Glastonburys. A dewy-eyed nostalgia trip for one generation, and a pin-sharp, eye-opening exploration for the next. If you were there, you’re in it. If you weren’t, you’ll wish you were".
Robin Mahoney said that it was the right time to rebuild this movie, thanks to the advancement of digital cinema technology, adding that they started from scratch, using original camera negatives, before adding that this was a huge step forward from the material which had previously existed.
Check out the trailer below.
Glastonbury The Movie: 30th Anniversary Cut will be shown across 62 cinema screens in the UK, with the restored doc being created from the original 35mm Panavision CinemaScope negative, which greatly improves its picture and sound quality.
Speaking of Glastonbury, Duran Duran recently revealed that they will not play at the venue unless they are given a headline slot at the festival. Frontman, Simon Le Bon said as much in a recent interview. Find out more on this here.
