Taking Woodstock
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Days to DVD Release
December 15, 2009
- Synopsis
- Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee tells the story of the Greenwich Village interior designer who inadvertently helped to spark a cultural revolution by offering the organizers of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival boarding at his family's ......
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- Starring
- Demetri Martin, Dan Fogler, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy
- Director(s)
- Ang Lee
- Distributor(s)
- Focus Features
- MPAA Rating
- R
- Runtime
- 120 min.
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Critic Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites
Taking Woodstock has the freshness of something being created, not remembered.Read the full review
San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be there - to actually be there, man - this movie gets it.Read the full review
The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk HoneycuttAdd Critic to Favorites
It's a low-wattage film about a high-wattage event. Which is somewhat disappointing, though you do get a thoughtful, playful, often amusing film about what happened backstage at one of the '60s' great happenings.Read the full review
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James Schamus talks Taking Woodstock - RT Interview
11/13/09 If it's not enough that he's the head of Focus Features -- the independent imprint of Universal -- he's also an established producer and screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Ang Lee. | Rotten Tomatoes -
Five Favourite Films with Ang Lee
11/12/09 The rule that no two Ang Lee movies are ever the same is confidently kept intact with the release of his latest, Taking Woodstock, a comedy about the true story behind the Woodstock music festival in 1969. | Rotten Tomatoes -
Award-season films feel '60s nostalgia
10/30/09 Do you take advantage of the new freedoms?" purrs sexy next-door neighbor Mrs. Samsky in the Coen brothers' 1967-set "A Serious Man." The question looms large over a number of this year's award-season films, many of them set either on the cusp of that moment of revolutionary change in the '60s ("An Education," "A Single Man"), during its heyday ("A Serious Man," "Nine," "Pirate Radio") or as its gleam began to wear off and turn darker ("The Damned United," "The Lovely Bones"). | Variety -
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Lee's Kids Urged Him To Take Drugs
10/28/09 Oscar-winning moviemaker Ang Lee was stunned when his kids told him to try drugs to make his new Taking Woodstock movie more authentic. | The Internet Movie Database (IMDb) -
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09/30/09 Ang Lee said he's baffled by the poor boxoffice results of "Taking Woodstock" -- the Oscar-winning director's worst-performing English-language movie in the U.S. in 10 years. | The Hollywood Reporter -
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