“Taking Woodstock” — trailer
We already featured the trailer for Where the Wild Things Are, so I suppose you could subtitle this one Where the Wild Things were — as in the summer of 1969. Taking Woodstock is a Focus Features film with a screenplay by James Schamus based on a book by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. It’s directed by Ang Lee and it’s scheduled for release, appropriately enough, in August, 2009 — precisely 40 years after 500,000 people descended on the tiny burg of Woodstock, NY.
The movie stars Demetri Martin. If you haven’t been watching his new TV series “Important Things” on Comedy Central, you’re missing a very funny show. Here’s a snippet:
And here’s the trailer for Taking Woodstock.