Gentle, genial and about as memorable as a mild reefer high, “Taking Woodstock” takes a backdoor approach to revisit the landmark musical weekend through the antics and efforts of some of the people ...

Ang Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place. It's a low-wattage film about a high-wattage event. By ...

He approaches the fabled three-day concert from an outsider's angle, which is admirably innovative; truly, the significance and influence of Woodstock have been chronicled ad nauseam, especially ...

Ang Lee's film focuses not on the 1969 music festival itself, but on one of the people whose lives were changed by it: Elliot Teichberg, a closeted gay man who offered up his parents' decrepit motel ...

Woodstock, the infamous music festival that symbolized the youth culture of the 1960s, has taken on an iconic history of mythical proportions. Elliot Tiber’s autobiographical story Taking Woodstock ...

With all of the myth, urban legend, and reality that has become "Woodstock," Ang Lee's movie purposely stays away from the main stage of the iconic concert. Centered on the characters at a rundown ...

Director Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain") has celebrated the 40th anniversary of 1969's Woodstock Music and Art Fair by giving moviegoers a wonderful gift in his latest film, "Taking Woodstock." The ...

Jonathan Groff, center, with Mamie Gummer and Demetri Martin, stars as Michael Lang, the hippie heart of Ang Lee's 'Taking Woodstock.' Jonathan Groff can't remember a thing about Woodstock -- the ...

The story of Elliot Tiber and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the happening that it was. When Elliot hears that a ...

Taking Woodstock director Ang Lee (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) was a teenager living in Taiwan when Woodstock took place a world away in upstate New York. For him, the lunar landing — which ...

I would love to tell you that Ang Lee’s new film made a big impression on me as a viewer, taking me back to Woodstock itself and giving me an intimate, insider’s look into a significant American ...