Once my claim to fame, “Turning 40″ also applies to the Woodstock Music Festival which celebrates its 40th anniversary this summer (I believe that an anniversary concert/event is planned as well).
Ang Lee’s new film, Taking Woodstock, follows the origins of the concert through the main character of Eliot Tiber (played by Demitri Martin), who attempts to increase business at his parents’ run-down hotel in the Catskills by helping to lure “some hippie thing” to town. The character, who happens to be gay, doesn’t realize that he is behind a generation-changing event. I am looking forward to this film. It also stars Eugene Levy as the farmer who opens his fields to the concert and Leiv Schreiber, who plays a tranny. Emile Hirsch (pictured during filming) also plays a hippie Vietnam vet and continues to confirm my crushes on young hippie boys.
Check out the trailer below – it aired for the first time last night. This film, along with Star Trek, are my two “must-sees” of the summer.
By the way, even though I was 3 when Woodstock happened, I did not attend (surprisingly).
