Taking Woodstock

The Shooting Script

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by James Schamus

Type

Screenplays

Subject

One Film > Taking Woodstock

Keywords

Ang Lee, screenplay

Publishing date

2009

Publisher

Newmarket Press

Collection

Shooting Script

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 176 pages
7 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (18.5 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-1-55704-847-9

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Book Presentation:
A generation began in his backyard. . . . Taking Woodstock is a new comedy inspired by the true 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.

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. When Elliot hears that a neighboring 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 neighbor's farm in Bethel, New York, and Elliot finds himself swept up in a generation-defining experience that would change his life—and American culture—forever.

Taking Woodstock is directed by Ang Lee with ascreenplay by James Schamus, based on the book byElliot Tiber with Tom Monte, and stars DemetriMartin, Dan Fogler, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff,Eugene Levy, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and ImeldaStaunton, with Emile Hirsch and Liev Schreiber.

This Newmarket Shooting Script® Book includes:

• Exclusive Foreword by Ang Lee
• Exclusive Introduction by James Schamus
• Complete Shooting Script
• 32-page color portfolio, including production notes, movie stills, and historical photos
• Timeline and glossary
• Complete cast and crew credits

About the Author:
James Schamus is the CEO ofFocus Features as well as a Professorin Columbia University's School ofthe Arts, where he teaches film historyand theory. His script for The IceStorm (which Ang Lee directed) wonthe Best Screenplay Award at theCannes Film Festival.Ang Lee won the Academy Award®for Best Director for BrokebackMountain and also received an Oscar®nomination for directing CrouchingTiger, Hidden Dragon (from the scriptby James Schamus).Schamus and Lee have also collaboratedas writer and director onLust, Caution; Hulk; Ride with the Devil; Eat, Drink, Man,Woman; The Wedding Banquet; and Pushing Hands.

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