Taking Woodstock R

A Generation Began In His Backyard.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 2 hours
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: December 15, 2009
  • Originally Released: 2009
  • Label: Universal Studios

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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...
Movieline
Aug 27, 2009
Rating: 1/4 -- Taking Woodstock simply doesn't capture the spirit of a very spirited time. Full Review
Washington Times
Dec 5, 2018
“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.”
Washington Post
Aug 28, 2009
[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition...
Los Angeles Times
Aug 26, 2009
Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was. -- Grade: B-
Entertainment Weekly
Sep 4, 2009
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.
Box Office
May 18, 2009
Rating: 2/5 -- A rare misfire for the usually reliable Lee. Full Review
Times (UK)
Nov 13, 2009

Product Description:

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.

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  • Sales Rank: 4,615
  • UPC: 025192014017
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