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Taking Woodstock
Year: 2009
Country: USA
Director: Ang Lee
Starring: Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Eugene Levy, Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Kelli Garner, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Fogler, Jonathan Groff
Synopsis: A closeted gay man helps rescue the Woodstock Music & Arts Festival after a nearby town rejects the first mega-concert event by bringing it to the small town of Bethel, N.Y.
Quick review: Ang Lee continues to do right by gay people by not shying away from their stories. He also did "Wedding Banquet" and of course, "Brokeback Mountain." This film is based on the memoir of Elliot Tiber, who had given himself a permit to hold a music festival at his parent's motel in the summer of 1969. Past "music festivals" there consisted of Elliot playing records and maybe a concert by a local band. But when the residents of Wallkill, N.Y. rise up and refuse to allow the hippies to invade their city for the Woodstock festival, Elliot decides, why not? Since this is told from Elliot's point of view, we get to see only part of the massive undertaking to try to organize a concert for a half million people in about a month in a town that is not ready for it. We get to see how it impacts his family and some of the angry reaction of the town's folk. We also get just a taste of Elliot's other life, the one he was keeping when he lived in the Village in New York. There is a brief romance with a construction worker and a friend of a friend shows up to help, who happens to be an ex-Marine and a cross dresser. The gay content is minimal, but it's not hidden. This concert did take place less than two months after the Stonewall riots, so few were wearing rainbow shirts in those days. The film is enjoyable simply for watching the havoc unfold, seeing a brief glimpse of Emile Hirsch getting naked, and giving you a sense of what it might have felt like to be at Woodstock.
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