Demetri Martin,
Dan Fogler,
Imelda Staunton,
Emile Hirsch,
Eugene Levy
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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 Mu... read more
Directed by: Ang Lee
Release Date: August 28, 2009
DVD Release Date: December 15, 2009
Stats: 4,608 reviews
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March 17, 2013
Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is based on the true story of Elliot Teichberg, one of the organizers of the Woodstock festival. Considering the legendary festival in music history, you'd expect something great right. The result is a good film that could have been done better. The fi... read more
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October 20, 2012
Ang Lee is interesting and very talented director. He is certainly one of the world's most original voices in cinema these days and his films are always interesting to watch. Sometimes he succeeds like with his The Ice Storm, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon or spectacular and unde... read more
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May 15, 2011
Taking Woodstock start interesting, but went the film begings to show the festival, Woodstock stay disagreeably sweet and presents a not so good screenplay, featuring some cliches. Don't focus really on the festival, showing just the making off. Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is disa... read more
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March 28, 2011
I'm starting to lose count on the amount of times director Ang Lee has tackled a new genre. He's done martial arts; comic-book; thriller; romance; family drama; westerns and literary adaptation. Now? Well now, he's tackles the story of how the legendary music festival "Woodstock"... read more
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May 19, 2010
Lee's film manages to capture the groovy vibe of the famous festival, although it doesn't quite develop the protagonist very well and isn't much revealing about the musical magic of Woodstock itself. The result is enjoyable yet rather underwhelming.
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March 18, 2010
I'll be honest, any movie involving the culture, arts, and music of the 60s is something I'm interested in. Shockingly enough, I've never actually seen the Woodstock concert film in its entirety, but I like the fact that this movie doesn't have any concert footage, and that it's ... read more
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February 6, 2010
I think this was an enjoyable movie but I don't think I'd watch it again. It was really long and I was getting a little over it by the end.
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January 18, 2010
I really, really enjoyed this movie, a lot more than I expected. Ang Lee did such a marvelous job recreating the authenticity of everything, and at times it almost felt like I was watching a documentary. The performances of the fun and eccentric ensemble cast were all extremely... read more
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January 15, 2010
"A Generation Began In His Backyard."
A man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.REVIEW
Don't be mi... read more
Critic Reviews
Ang Lee's companionable 'Taking Woodstock' is thick with sun and good cheer. Full Review
Too much of Taking Woodstock seems barely sketched out. Full Review
It's harmless enough as a snapshot of a young man's awakening to the grand possibilities of adult life, but not particularly effective at capturing the spirit, the thrill or even the mud of this cultu... Full Review
This is very light material, and, unusually for a Lee picture, not everybody in the ensemble appears to be acting in the same universe, let alone the same story. On the other hand: It's fun. Full Review
Taking Woodstock has the appeal of an inside story told from an especially good angle. But beyond that, the movie is a celebration of the way this event has gone into memory and of the meaning it has ... Full Review
It's great that Taking Woodstock doesn't trample on anything sacred, but it also never arrives anywhere interesting. Full Review
Lee's first total miscalculation, his first wholly inessential film. Full Review
Can you dig it? Maybe, if you aren't already up to your tie-dyed shorts in Woodstock memories, and if you can accept that there's relatively little music in this happy-go-lucky movie about history's m... Full Review
If this Woodstock comes off as Edenic... don't assume the movie's advertising the real thing. Think of it as Ang Lee taking a vacation from too much reality. Full Review
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