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Taking Woodstock (2009)

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Directed by Ang Lee

Starring Imelda Staunton, Eugene Levy, Henry Goodman, Liev Schreiber, Emile Hirsch, Dan Fogler, Demetri Martin, Jonathan Groff

The tale of Elliot Tiber, the man that greenlit the permit for the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969, is brought to the big screen by acclaimed director Ang Lee. Longtime collaborator James Schamus adapts the book Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, A Concert, and A Life by Tiber and Tom Monte for Focus Features. ~ Jeremy Wheeler, All Movie Guide

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"(This review was first published at www.thecinematheque.com on 08/30/09) Perhaps Ang Lee’s new film is quite the idealized look at its Woodstock subject. A dream of what it was instead of what it really was. An almost too-perfect look back at the seminal rock concert event of forty years ago. And perhaps too, Lee’s film is riddled with cliched car " [More]

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