Taking Woodstock is actually about the OTHER Woodstock, the one that occurred in 1969 and always looked like the skeeviest concert on the Earth whenever I've seen footage. It is, after The Wedding Banquet and Brokeback Mountain, Ang Lee's third gay-themed feature -- a great thing to note, as it keeps him from doing superhero movies. Lee throws both lust and caution to the wind to film James Schamus' adaptation of Elliot Tiber's memoir. Tiber (played by Martin) went from interior decorating in the Village to managing the hotel that became "the home base for Woodstock concert organizers after his neighbor, Max Yasgur (Levy), made his farm available for the event." Based on the aforementioned footage I've seen, that hotel didn't have any showers.

Regardless of how you feel about hippies and the (free?) love that dare not speak its name, this movie has a kick-ass cast. In addition to Hirsch and company, Jeffrey Dean Morgan (Watchmen) shows up as a man more trapped in the closet than R. Kelly. Paul Dano of Little Miss Sunshine also shows up as one half of a hippie couple letting the sun shine in where the sun don't shine. Dano's appearance alone has me wanting to see Taking Woodstock, if only for the moment when Daniel Day-Lewis shows up, covered in mud and screaming "I'VE ABANDONED MY BOYYYYYY! I'VE ABANDONED MY SON!!!" before beating Dano with a police officer billy-club. He'll have to run past Schreiber, who's playing a transvestite [Again? - Zach] named Vilma. Please let his boyfriend be named Fred.