Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” takes Cannes Film Festival and theaters August 14
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on April 23, 2009 under Comedy, Film Festival, LGBT, drama | 
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Academy Award winning director Ang Lee of Brokeback Mountain fame, returns to movie theaters this Summer, August 14, with Taking Woodstock. Taking Woodstock was also confirmed this morning as an official selection for this year’s Cannes Film Festival lineup.
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.
The film also focuses on Tiber’s life as a closeted gay man hiding both his marijuana habit as well as his sexual orientation from his family, and the self-discovery that he experiences following the Stonewall Riots. [via]
Taking Woodstock stars Demetri Martin in the lead role and a supporting cast that includes Imelda Staunton, Liev Schreiber, Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Fogler, Paul Dano and Emile Hirsch.
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