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Robbie Robertson’s plaintive “Once Were Brothers,” from his Sinematicalbum, shares its title withOnce Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and the Band, a documentary about Robertson’s life and often wild times with the group that made him famous. The film opens in New York and L.A. on February 21 and nationally on …

The Band thought the whole idea of the Woodstock festival was exciting because of what it stood for. The promoters were telling everybody that it was a show of hands for people who felt a certain way about our generation and the war in Vietnam. It was being called a …