Taking Woodstock Movie Reviews

Every once in a while you'll come across a film you'll wish you could go inside. Whose world is so far removed from yours and so attractive, that you'll wish you could be a part of that world. Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock is that kind of film. Despite what its title might suggest, Lee's film is not about the music festival at all. You don't see actors playing Hendrix, or Janis Joplin, or any of the 32 acts that made rock music history forty years ago

Everybody knows about Woodstock, the milestone music concert that changed the world. But does anybody know about the people who made it possible, besides the musicians and the hippies who are now part of history? Here's where Ang Lee's film scores, turning its attention away from the actual concert and the larger-than-life artists to the freedom-loving commoners who saw the cause behind the concert. Based on Elliot Tiber's book, the film focuses

Ang Lee's film is based on the book Taking Woodstock: A true story of a riot, a concert, and a lifeby Elliott (Tiber) Teichberg who was instrumental in organising the festival that defined a generation. After Brokeback Mountain and Lust Caution, Lee takes a leap of faith to bring to life that momentous period in 1969 which led to an epochal moment which people still look back to with wonder and awe. The narrative revisits the circumstances that led to that phenomenal weekend