WEIRDLAND: Taking Woodstock in Cannes

Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Taking Woodstock in Cannes

"It’s 1969, and Elliot Tiber, a down-on-his-luck interior designer in Greenwich Village, New York, has to move back upstate to help his parents run their dilapidated Catskills motel, the El Monaco. The bank is about to foreclose; his father wants to burn the place down, but hasn’t paid the insurance; and Elliot is still figuring how to come out to his parents. When Elliot hears that a neighbouring town has pulled the permit on a hippie music festival, he calls the producers, thinking he could drum up some much needed business for the motel. Three weeks later, half a million people are on their way to his neighbour's farm in White Lake, NY, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life, and popular culture, forever".

Taking Woodstock production notes kit (download)

CREDITS

Ang LEE - Director
James SCHAMUS - Screenplay
Eric GAUTIER - Cinematography
David GROPMAN - Set Designer
Danny ELFMAN - Music
Tim SQUYRES - Film Editor

ACTORS

Dan FOGLER - Devon
Henry GOODMAN - Jake Teichberg
Jonathan GROFF - Michael Lang
Emile HIRSCH - Billy
Eugene LEVY - Max Yasgur
Demetri MARTIN - Elliot Tiber
Liev SCHREIBER - Vilma
Imelda STAUNTON - Sonia Teichberg

Source: www.festival-cannes.fr

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