Taking Woodstock DVD

A new comedy inspired by the true story of elliot tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the the famed woodstock music and arts festival into the happening that it was.

Editor's Note

Ang Lee (BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN) directs this film about the beginnings of the epic and legendary 1969 Woodstock Festival, which took place in Bethel, New York.

Features

DVD, English, Spanish, Dolby, Dolby Digital (5.1)

Technical Info

Release Information
	Studio: Universal
	Release Date: 8/22/2010
	Running Time: 120 minutes
	Original Release Date: 2009
	UPC: 00025192014017
	Number of Discs: 1
Audio & Video
	Available Audio Tracks:
	Video: Color

Entertainment Reviews

Taking Woodstock - DVD Review

By: Jason McKiernan filmcritic.com DVD Reviews

Published on: 12/4/2009 9:42 PM

Ang Lee is one of the most nuanced, attentive, and versatile of all working directors. He is capable of molding any material -- be it human drama, kung fu epic, or even comic book adaptation -- to his unique and delicate sensibility. It's strange, then, that Lee's own artistic instincts fail him in Taking Woodstock, which plays like a wooden, straightforward soap opera that is far too well-meaning for its own good. The movie adopts a hippie attitude without the added psychedelic benefit of hippie drugs. The end result of Lee's long-awaited Woodstock movie is not much of a "Woodstock movie" at all but is rather another entry into the "Lost boy finds himself" subgenre....read the full review

Cast & Crew

	Demetri Martin
	Emile Hirsch
	Liev Schreiber
	Imelda Staunton
	Eugene Levy
	Dan Fogler
	Jeffrey Dean Morgan
	Eric Gautier - Director of Photography
	Elliot Tiber - Source Writer
	Tom Monte - Source Writer
	Michael Hausman - Executive Producer
	James Schamus - Screenwriter
	James Schamus - Producer
	Ang Lee - Producer
	Celia D. Costas - Producer
	Danny Elfman - Composer
	Ang Lee - Director

Professional Reviews

Hollywood Reporter
"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place." 05/16/2009

Box Office
3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation." 05/18/2009

Chicago Sun-Times
3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered." 08/26/2009

Los Angeles Times
"[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..." 08/26/2009

Movieline
"It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..." 08/27/2009

Entertainment Weekly
"Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B- 09/04/2009

Washington Post
?Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....He?s managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.? 08/28/2009

Uncut
4 stars out of 5 -- "Lee shows the experience from the outskirts...we see Woodstock as most attendees saw it: down among the mud and chaos...' 11/02/2009

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Taking Woodstock (2009)

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