Movie Description Ang Lee (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) directs this film about the beginnings of the epic and legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival, which took place in Bethel, New York.
| Credits | | Producer: | Ang Lee, Celia Costas, James Schamus | | Cast: | Dan Fogler, Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy, Imelda Staunton, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Liev Schreiber |
Editorial Reviews "Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place." Hollywood Reporter - Kirk Honeycutt (05/16/2009)
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation." Box Office - Richard Mowe (05/18/2009)
3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered." Chicago Sun-Times - Roger Ebert (08/26/2009)
"[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..." Los Angeles Times - Betsy Sharkey (08/26/2009)
"It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..." Movieline - Movieline Critic (08/27/2009)
"Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B- Entertainment Weekly - Owen Gleiberman (09/04/2009)
“Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....He’s managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.” Washington Post (08/28/2009)
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