Woodstock ’99 will host more than just great bands this year as the festival has joined with the Independent Film Channel to create the first-ever Woodstock Film Festival. Eighty hours of continuous independent films will be shown inside an old Air Force B-52 hanger in Rome, New York, beginning July 23 and lasting through the end of the 30th anniversary Woodstock festival on July 25.Mark Lipsky, Director of Consumer Marketing for Bravo Network, said the film festival will show about 40 independent films including “Blue Velvet,” “Dazed and Confused,” “Easy Rider,” “Pulp Fiction,” “Trainspotting,” “Sid and Nancy,” “Rocky Horror Picture Show,” the original “Woodstock” and a sneak preview of the upcoming Miramax movie, “Outside Providence” with Alec Baldwin. The films will run non-stop from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday, the last day of Woodstock ’99.The defunct B-52 Air Force hanger that the films will be shown in, was abandoned when Griffiss Air Force base was closed at the end of the Cold War. Lipsky said the hanger will be draped to keep out light and to hold in the sound.”We’ll be able to fit 3,000 to 4,000 people in the hanger,” Lipsky said. Lipsky is helping organize the Woodstock Film Festival which has become a collaborative effort between Woodstock promoters, The Independent Film Channel, Metropolitan Entertainment and Clearview Cinemas, a sister company of The Independent Film Channel.”We’re making deals the best we can to make sure that nobody is left holding the bag,” Lipsky said. Foye Johnson, senior executive producer for Metropolitan Entertainment,said the Independent Film Channel was imperative in bringing the film festival to Woodstock this year.”They’re ‘liaisoning’ with people from our own company to help with the booking and clearing of the films,” Johnson said. “In true Woodstock fashion everybody is contributing.”Clearview Cinemas will be providing Sony equipment to help with the technical side of the film festival.Johnson said that at an event like Woodstock people tend to get burnt out on music and need some way to unwind. “After you spend about 36 hours listening to music you just want a place to unplug,” Johnson said.