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 Catskills motel. The year is 1969. Change is brewing in America, and the energy in Greenwich Village is palpable. Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) is working as an interior designer when he discovers that a high-profile concert has recently lost its permit from the nearby town of Wallkill, NY. Emboldened by the burgeoning gay rights movement yet still tied to tradition in the form of the family business -- a Catskills motel called the El Monaco -- Tiber phones producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures and offers boarding to the harried concert crew. Later, as the Woodstock Ventures staff began arriving in droves, half a million concertgoers make their way to Max Yasgur's (Eugene Levy) adjacent farm in White Lake, NJ, to witness the counterculture celebration that would ultimately make history as one of the greatest events in the annals of rock & roll. Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, and Paul Dano co-star.
Product Identifiers
Producer
Ang Lee, Celia D. Costas, James Schamus
EAN
5050582753431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
77866113
Product Key Features
Actor
Henry Goodman, Kelli Garner, Liev Schreiber, Clark Middleton, Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Jonathan Groff, Boris McGiver, Paul Dano, Adam Lefevre, Dan Fogler, Eugene Levy, Emile Hirsch, Kevin Chamberlain, Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Film/TV Title
Taking Woodstock
Director
Ang Lee
Language
English
Subtitle Language
English\French\Spanish
Run Time
116 Mins
Aspect Ratio
16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Format
DVD
Release Year
2010
Features
Deleted scenes\Feature commentary with director And Lee and writer James Schamus\'Peace, Love And Cinema' featurette\'No Audience Required: The Earth Light Players' featurette\'Horsing Around The Set' featurette, Widescreen, With Subtitles
Genre
Drama, Comedy
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs
1
Certificate
15
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States of America
Composer
Danny Elfman
Production Designer
David Gropman
Reviews
Chicago Sun-Times - TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered., Time Out - Undoubtedly one of Ang Lee's lighter films, 'Taking Woodstock' is also one of his better ones, and a welcome return to form, San Francisco Chronicle - If you've ever wondered what it would be like to be there - to actually be there, man - this movie gets it., Empire - Lee has done it again; he really has to be one of the most intelligent, subtle and all-round perfect directors working in the English language. What he has done here beats Cameron Crowe at his own game, Entertainment Weekly - Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was.