Taking Woodstock is the newest film by Ang Lee which recently screened at Cannes (to very, very mixed reviews).
Wikipedia synopsis:
The film, based upon the book of the same name, follows the true life story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin), an aspiring Greenwich Village interior designer whose parents owned a small motel in Upstate New York and, at the time, held the only musical festival permit in the entire town of Bethel, New York. Tiber offered both the Catskills motel and the permit to the Woodstock Festival's organizers.
Cast:
Demetri Martin as Elliot Tiber
Imelda Staunton as Tiber's mother
Henry Goodman as Tiber's father
Liev Schreiber as Vilma, a transvestite
Jonathan Groff as Woodstock organizer Michael Lang
Emile Hirsch as Billy, a recently returned Vietnam vet
Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan as a hippie couple attending the concert
Jeffrey Dean Morgan as a closeted married man having an affair with Tiber
Eugene Levy as Max Yasgur, who owns the nearby farm
Mamie Gummer as Lang's assistant
Release Date:
August 14, 2009
i'm simply obsessed with jonathan groff. obsessed. but also, this film, which is another collaboration between ang lee and writer james schamus, marks lee's return to hollywood after brokeback mountain in 2005. barring demetri martin, who i'm a tad concerned about since he's not an experienced actor, the cast looks great (emile hirsch as a war vet and liev schreiber as a transvestite? holy cow). and the subject matter is interesting. it's been four decades since woodstock and we're a wholly different generation, so is anyone interested in seeing this?
I just love Demetri Martin. His stand-ups are hilarious 
