We already featured the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, so I suppose you could subtitle this one Where the Wild Things were –as in the summer of 1969. Taking Woodstock is a Focus Features film with a screenplay by James Schamus based on a book by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. It’s directed by Ang Lee and it’s scheduled for release, appropriately enough, in August, 2009 — precisely 40 years after 500,000 people descended on the tiny burg of Woodstock, NY.
The movie stars Demetri Martin. If you haven’t been watching his new TV series “Important Things” on Comedy Central, you’re missing a very funny show. Here’s a snippet:
And here’s the trailer for Taking Woodstock.
I saw the trailer last night during Important Things and thought it looked great! I’m very excited about the budding trend of movies that celebrate and romanticize hippies and beatniks, instead of stigmatizing them. (Taking Woodstock, Hippie Hippie Shake, two different Allen Ginsberg movies)
Wow! Lee and Shamus do comedy! Amazing… though The Ice Storm did have me chuckling in parts, grim as it was. Sigourney and her bullwhip… good lord.
Looks terrific!
I was at an IFP Script To Screen Conference a few weeks ago and Shamus was talking up the film. It sounded pretty interesting. He was explaining this whole other storyline in the book where the guy comes to NYC and gets caught up in the gay underworld then goes back up to the farm. Doesn’t look like that made the cut unless they intentionally kept it out of the trailer. Who knows?