Free Film Screening of Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock” – Aug 27
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As we celebrate 40 years of Woodstock, there will be a free early screening of the Ang Lee-directed film, Taking Woodstock in Chicago on August 27th. Free tickets can be requested through the website www.FilmMetro.com on August 25th. The theater and time the free film will be showing at have yet to be announced.
Taking Woodstock is the new film from Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee – and it’s a trip!
One must be a member of FilmMetro.com, which is free to register, to request and print out tickets. These early passes have a habit to run out within minutes of availability, so if you are a fan of Woodstock or just a broke hippie, you may want to make sure you are on-line and ready to snag these freebies.
FilmMetro.com is always updating their website with upcoming free screenings in various cities throughout the United States. Therefore, it is recommended that one subscribe to their email updates to keep current on what early screenings will be in Chicago or your hometown.
Based on the memoirs of Elliot Tiber, the comedy stars Demetri Martin as Elliot, who inadvertently played a role in making 1969’s Woodstock Music and Arts Festival into the famed happening it was. Featuring a standout ensemble cast, and songs from a score of ‘60s musical icons including The Grateful Dead, The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and Country Joe and the Fish – plus a new recording of “Freedom” from Richie Havens – Taking Woodstock is a joyous voyage to a moment in time when everything seemed possible.
Working as an interior designer in Greenwich Village, Elliot feels empowered by the gay rights movement. But he is also still staked to the family business – a dumpy Catskills motel called the El Monaco that is being run into the ground by his overbearing parents, Jake and Sonia Teichberg (Henry Goodman and Imelda Staunton). In the summer of 1969, Elliot has to move back upstate to the El Monaco in order to help save the motel from being taken over by the bank.
Upon hearing that a planned music and arts festival has lost its permit from the neighboring town of Wallkill, NY, Elliot calls producer Michael Lang (Jonathan Groff) at Woodstock Ventures to offer his family’s motel to the promoters and generate some much-needed business. Elliot also introduces Lang to his neighbor Max Yasgur (Eugene Levy), who operates a 600-acre dairy farm down the road. Soon the Woodstock staff is moving into the El Monaco – and half a million people are on their way to Yasgur’s farm for “3 days of Peace & Music in White Lake.”
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