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Ang Lee's new movie: Taking Woodstock

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Artiste:
Is this for real ?

Lynne:
This is excellent news!  I am always excited to have more Ang Lee projects to look forward to.

Lynne

optom3:

--- Quote from: Lynne on May 15, 2008, 10:57:09 pm ---This is excellent news!  I am always excited to have more Ang Lee projects to look forward to.

Lynne

--- End quote ---

Same here. I have always been fascinated by Woodstock.I have watched so much footage of it, and quasi documentaries,as well .To have Ang Lee tackle it and bring it to film.that really would be a treat.
I find that whole period fascinating,Haight Ashbury,woodstock.hippies,music,mystic religions,the whole nine yards.I would have loved to have been in my teens or twenties at that time.

Artiste:
When is this to be made ?

oilgun:
The Time Out London Review of the film:

Taking Woodstock (2009)
Director: Ang Lee
 
Author: Geoff Andrew 2009-05-16 10:42:18
Time Out Online Cannes Film Festival 2009

Undoubtedly one of Ang Lee's lighter films, 'Taking Woodstock' is also one of his better ones, and a welcome return to form after the ambitious but deeply flawed 'Lust, Caution'. Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, it finds the director working once again with his long-term collaborator James Schamus, whose script boasts enough funny one-liners to keep one smiling throughout and, at least in the case of this writer, to laugh out loud at regular intervals.

Set in the Catskills, it centres on Elliot Teichberg (Demetri Martin), a modestly arty, slightly geeky would-be painter who is also head of the local Chamber of Commerce and an overly dutiful son to Sonia (Imelda Staunton in often hilariously bellicose Jewish-mother mode) and the downtrodden and ailing Jake (Henry Goodman); their run-down (or ill-run) motel Elliot is trying to help keep afloat even as he strives to organise a small arts festival for the ultra-conservative locals. Suddenly, he learns that the planned Woodstock rock festival can no longer be held at a nearby village. Elliot makes his move, having no idea of how many tickets will be on sale, let alone of how his neighbours might react to the prospect of an influx of hippies.
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Continues... http://www.timeout.com/film/reviews/87174/taking-woodstock.html

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