Taking Woodstock

MOVIE DESCRIPTION:

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 begans 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. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

AWARDS

• Cannes Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2009

• London Film Festival

•     Film Presented - 2009

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

• Cast:

  
       Demetri Martin - Elliot Tiber
       Dan Fogler - Devon
       Imelda Staunton - Sonia Teichberg
       Emile Hirsch - Billy
       Eugene Levy - Max Yasgur
       Jonathan Groff - Michael Lang
       Henry Goodman - Jake Teichberg

• Director:

  Ang Lee

• Producer:

  Celia Costas, Ang Lee, James Schamus

• Book Author:

  Tom Monte, Elliot Tiber

• Screenwriter:

  James Schamus

• Cinematographer:

  Éric Gautier

• Composer (Music Score):

  Danny Elfman

• Editor:

  Tim Squyres

• Production Designer:

  David Gropman

• Art Director:

  Peter Rogness

• Associate Producer:

  Patrick Cupo, David Lee, David Sauers

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