Taking Woodstock

If you want to have a real sense of the concert and the mass of young people who attended, as a crowd, by all means check out "Woodstock" from 1970. It's all there, the music, the rain and mud, the buzz... Full review

I worshiped the youth culture from afar in the late sixties. I was too young to participate but did my best to disrupt jr. high assemblies with the Fish cheer. I didn't know about the Woodstock Festival until two weeks after... Full review

I was 21 years old when Woodstock happened. I was in a Hippie Enclave called Marin County, CA at this time. So, when I say that the hippies in this film look realistic, believe me. The producer has captured important visual... Full review

Building a sweet coming-of-age comedy around a major American cultural event of the Sixties, 'Taking Woodstock' is lodged on the periphery of the legendary half-million-strong August 1969 "peace and love" rock concert held on Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm near the... Full review

We watched Taking Woodstock several hours ago and we had no idea what this film was about. I think that this is an important comment because this film had virtually nothing to do with previous Woodstock films; it was completely different... Full review

Taking Woodstock is a hilarious film, beautifully photographed and filled with performances that capture the idealism of the '60s. Ang Lee does a masterful job capturing the madness and chaos associated with trying to stage a major rock festival in a... Full review

Taking Woodstock is a personal story about a young man finding himself at a time when his generation was trying to do that throughout the world. It is not a "docudrama" about the event, so people expecting to relive the Woodstock... Full review

Director Ang Lee has had some incredible hits (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, The Ice Storm) and misses (Hulk). His latest is somewhere in between. The 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair, held at Max Yasgur's 600-acre dairy farm in... Full review

After Ang Lee's last film, 'Lust,Caution' folded at the box office, he & his frequent collaborator,James Schamus had to re coup their losses. They found the answer in Elliot Tiber's novel, Taking Woodstock, an account of what could have happened when... Full review

I like how director Ang Lee offers something different with every film. The first tim ei laid my eyes upon his work was with 2003's "Hulk".....now a lot of people hated that movie, but i found it very enjoyable. Then of... Full review

it's a mellow, graceful comedy oozing 60s nostalgia.....Despite its languid pace, Taking Woodstock is a joyous, exhilarating film that neither shies away....The film's charm lies in its ability to evoke an infectious communal spirit....You could argue that the vital ingredient missing here is the music itself.... ... Full Review

Even at its most uneven and unprepossessing, this quirky, self-effacing little comedy takes its place in Lee's American oeuvre with quiet ease.....Taking Woodstock" steadfastly remains outside the main event and its familiar muddy scrum of hippies and hangers-on..... ... Full Review

the occasional lapse into contrived comedy.....a story with characters, I found it very entertaining.....I may be unqualified to review Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock," which tells the story of how.... ... Full Review

the secondary characters are far more interesting.....As concert promoter Michael Lang, Groff is far more interesting than Martin..... ... Full Review

But such a broad supporting performance is welcome in a film with what is, frankly, an enormously dull leading performance..... ... Full Review

James Schamus might be a workaholic. If it's not enough that he's the head of Focus Features -- the independent imprint of Universal -- he's also an established producer and screenwriter best known for his collaborations with Ang Lee . ... Full Article

It's not as though there's ever been a shortage of trippy scenes in films. It's just they always seemed to chime more with the experiences of the film-makers than with my own. ... Full Article

Earnest Jewish kid Elliot Tiber - played by comedian Demetri Martin - is bullied by his ferocious mom (Imelda Staunton) and gentle dad (Henry Goodman) into helping out at their chaotic holiday-hotel in the Catskill mountains in upstate New York. ... Full Article

Grace Gummer, Streep's 23-year-old child with husband Don Gummer, made her stage debut in New York last year (Nov08) in dark comedy The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, and now she's making the transition to the small screen to play... ... Full Article

Win a pair of tickets to see 'Taking Woodstock' and celebrate the launch of hmvcurzon Wimbledon. 'Taking Woodstock' is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee: a true story about Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), a man who inadvertently... ... Full Article

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Meryl Streep's daughter Grace Gummer is set to star in a television drama about the chaotic life of being a Hollywood "It" kid, marking Gummer's first big break into the acting industry. ... Full Article