Academy Award winning director/producer Ang Lee and screenwriter/producer James Schamus will be in Woodstock on Saturday, August 8th with a special sneak peek of their new film, Taking Woodstock.
A screening of the movie will take place at 3:00 p.m. at Woodstock’s Tinker Street Cinema. Along with Lee and Schamus, Michael Lang, the long-time Woodstocker widely known as the key promoter of the August ‘69 Woodstock Music & Art Festival and a key character in the film, will be in attendance. A Q&A session will be held at the theater immediately after the screening followed by a special reception at Oriole 9.
Taking Woodstock is based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber. The comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Elliot found himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life – and popular culture – forever. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of ‘60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, and Jefferson Airplane. The film also stars Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff (as Michael Lang), Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Imelda Staunton, with Emile Hirsch and Liev Schreiber.
Tickets for the event can be purchased here.
