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.
Review 1:
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."
Source: Box Office
05/18/2009
Review 2:
"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place."
Source: Hollywood Reporter
05/16/2009
Review 3:
"[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
08/26/2009
Review 4:
"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..."
Source: Movieline
08/27/2009
Review 5:
"Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B-
Source: Entertainment Weekly
09/04/2009
Review 6:
3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
08/26/2009
Review 7:
“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.”
Source: Washington Post
08/28/2009
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