Demetri Martin as Elliot Tiber, flanked by Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton as his parents, in Taking Woodstock
Kelli Garner, Demetri Martin, and Paul Dano tripping out.. Watch the trailer: http://www.moviefone.com/movie/taking-woodstock/34750/main
>>>>I never got to Woodstock but I know others who made the trek. The closest I got to it was seeing the movie when it was released in theaters. It was shown in the now defunct Cinerama theaters with their curved wrap around screen and surround sound. Seeing it that way was pretty spectacular for the time compared to watching it now on DVD. I still have my LPs of the soundtrack and new expanded CD versions.
>>>>Taking Woodstock is directed by Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame again he proves his versatility with different subject matter. His new film concerns not the concert but how the events leading up to it affected a nearby town. The film is based on the memoirs of a young local arts promoter Elliot Tiber whose parents operate a run down motel in the Catskills. Everything in their lives changes when their motel becomes the concert's headquarters for its planners & workers as well as for people coming to see the shows. Revisiting all the hippy past was fun for us. I wasn't a flower child but the film portrays that subculture as well as I remember.
>>>>It's a lighthearted, leisurely paced movie with good humor and some funny bits about those infamous marijuana brownies and psychedelic trips. Some good performances especially by Live Schreiber as transvestite marine who becomes the motel's security officer Paul Dano, from Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood, as a hippie who introduces Elliot to LSD. That trip is presented like a scene from those bad 60's/70's movies but it's still amusing. The real gems here are Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman as his conservative parents whose lives will never be the same after Woodstock.
>>>>Since there's no concert footage used in Taking Woodstock, it's best to watch the concert movie after as a companion piece. As they used to say: tune in, turn on, and drop out.
>>>>Taking Woodstock is directed by Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon fame again he proves his versatility with different subject matter. His new film concerns not the concert but how the events leading up to it affected a nearby town. The film is based on the memoirs of a young local arts promoter Elliot Tiber whose parents operate a run down motel in the Catskills. Everything in their lives changes when their motel becomes the concert's headquarters for its planners & workers as well as for people coming to see the shows. Revisiting all the hippy past was fun for us. I wasn't a flower child but the film portrays that subculture as well as I remember.
>>>>It's a lighthearted, leisurely paced movie with good humor and some funny bits about those infamous marijuana brownies and psychedelic trips. Some good performances especially by Live Schreiber as transvestite marine who becomes the motel's security officer Paul Dano, from Little Miss Sunshine and There Will Be Blood, as a hippie who introduces Elliot to LSD. That trip is presented like a scene from those bad 60's/70's movies but it's still amusing. The real gems here are Imelda Staunton and Henry Goodman as his conservative parents whose lives will never be the same after Woodstock.
>>>>Since there's no concert footage used in Taking Woodstock, it's best to watch the concert movie after as a companion piece. As they used to say: tune in, turn on, and drop out.
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