After the jump, watch the trailer forTaking Woodstock, Brokeback/Crouching Tiger director Ang Lee’s latest film. “Based on a true story” (whatever the hell that means any more), it stars comedian Dmitri Martin as Elliot Tiber, a closeted gay man living with his parents in upstate New York who offers his family’s property as the venue for the Woodstock festival. I’m pretty excited about this – it’s so rare that my generation gets to relive the 60s through pop culture these days. Please, tell me more about Bob Dylan and the Vietnam war protests. I’m on the edge of my seat.
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“You’re in arrears on the mortgage.”
“What, are you saying I’m gay?”
Woodstock? Vietnam War? Bob Dylan?
Tell me more about these seemingly Important Things.
The 60′s were too hairy. At least that’s what all the vintage porn I see tells me.
This guy wanted to take the “brown acid” all right…
“Hey, if we have the music festival here, son, there will be lots of hot topless chicks around!”
“Great, dad! (sigh)”
Liev Schreiber in drag means that Hugh Jackman is more influential than we thought.
How can Ang Lee have any perspective on a movie taking place in the 60s…wasn’t he and his family digging secret tunnels for the VietCon when this actually happened?
Gays and Woodstock? So edgy, tell me more!
(Side note: Parts of this was shot in and around my hometown)
Dammit, erswi.
Taking Woodstock is the the working title of Fox’s next heist film “Bob the barfing Beaver”
Martin: Shameless self-promotion!? You sir, are a knave.
Liev Schrieber in drag….sigh…first Queer-vorine…now…Gay-bortooh.
Hippies and Homos. How the hell is Sean Penn not involved in this?
Taking Woodstock sounds like the title for some gay animal porn film that Snoopy screened for Charlie Brown.
Ohhhhhh, the Vietnam WAR! That’s what all those dirty homeless guys are babbling about when they try to justify making me take out my wallet to show them I don’t have any cash on me.
Taking Woodstock is an awesome double-entendre for a movie about a gay man.
Its just good to see Eugene Levy NOT in one of those American Pie Direct to DVD movies. Though…I’m pretty sure he’ll be playing the EXACT same character he always plays.
What’d I do? Ooooh, I see what I did . . .
* I came in the mayonaisse jar.
I wonder what Ang’s view of the 60′s was like?
*squints eyes, folds dick in half, walks around UNL campus on knees during hippy protest of dog neutering*
Never mind.
It’s good to see Brooke Hogan finally getting her foot in the door in Hollywood.
Father pouring bleach in a pool.
Through that we can see the often repeated task of an employee of any hotel Paris Hilton visits.
You say Hippie, I say fuck you.
shit
Ang has already commissioned Jane Fonda to sneak weapons to Mai Lan’s House of Phuc #3 for that added realism.
True story: as I read this article I was listening to CSNY’s ‘Woodstock’ on my Zune.
My mind is blown for so many reasons
*Ang Lee walks into a chinese buffet*
Ang: How much for the buffet? I’m Hungry
Cashier: NO, you Ang. Hung sitting ova dere!
Dimitri Martin presents his pitch to the festival organizers with a large flip pad and an easel.
*slow clap* for Donk
Stoney, Dimitri Martin doesn’t strike me as someone who usually ‘pitches’
Hmmm…I got a difficault choice here should I…
Watch This Movie Marry Brooke Hogan Kill Emile Hirsch
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Later, Tiber comes out of the closet, finds a boyfriend, and together they film their own version of ‘A River Runs Through It.’
Strike that last comment. Any joke that requires either a map or a working knowledge of Italy’s waterways isn’t worth it.
Brokeback/Crouching Tiger is Stephen Hawkings handle on the imdb message boards.
The kid with the curly Fro and vest is playing Michael Lang, who I used to work for. Dead ringer.