Demetri Martin scored quite a coup last night. In addition to the usual sketches and easel-drawing jokes, the brainy comedian’s Important Things with Demetri Martin gave audiences a world premiere of the trailer for Taking Woodstock, the new film from Brokeback Mountain director Ang Lee. (Check out EW’s exclusive on-set photo from last year). So how did Martin manage it? I suppose having the lead role in the movie doesn’t hurt…
The film shows the birth of the fabled flower-power concert, as a dutiful son (Martin) tries to save his parents’down-at-the-heel motel in the Catskills by agreeing to host "some hippie thing" that turns into the cultural event of a generation. Emile Hirsch (Milk) stars as one of the long-hairs who invade the sleepy upstate New York town, while Martin’s baffled parents are played by Imelda Staunton (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix) and Eugene Levy (American Pie).
While the house-party angle gives this trailer unexpected shades of Can’t Hardly Wait, overall I’m pretty excited about this movie. At the very least, it’ll be cool to watch Lee have fun with a subject lighter than, say, forbidden love. Or even more forbidden love. Or….The Hulk. Which really should have been forbidden anyway.
Check out the trailer below and let us know: Will you be heading to Woodstock this summer?
I can’t wait to see this! I love Demetri and Emile Hirsch! This looks like the next Almost Famous!
Woodstock lives! Online radio channels RADIO WOODSTOCK which features music from the original Woodstock era to today and RADIO WOODSTOCK 69 with exclusively music from the original Woodstock era are both available at: http://www.radiowoodstock.com. We’re based at Utopia Studios in Woodstock. It’s Woodstock to the world. Peace, love, music.
is it just me or does this movie not look very good? i really like demetri’s work but his acting seems a little jokey or something. maybe it’s just the trailer. good for him though
Henry Goodman plays the father. Eugene Levy plays the farmer who owns the field where the concert takes place.
And, no, it doesn’t look very good. Seems bland to me.
I can’t wait to see Taking Woodstock. It looks great.
looks pretty good to me… can’t wait!
I’ll need to see more. Ang Lee does no wrong in my book so I’ll need to see if the trailer is just cut to be lighthearted or if the whole movie’s like that… Because that could get annoying after awhile…
This looks great!
Is it sad that I’m more excited about seeing Jonathan Groff than anyone else? (The original Melchior in Spring Awakening)
Folks should definitely read Elliot Tiber’s memoir TAKING WOODSTOCK before seeing the movie this summer – it’s a trip!!
looks ok.
Yay, maybe now everyone will know where “woodstock” really happened!
Bethel, NY people.
soooovery excited to see this movie.demetri martin is great and i wish i had been alive when woodstock took place.i was only excited about transformers but now this is at the top of my list.
…or even even more forbidden love (Lee’s other gay movie, 1993′s The Wedding Banquet.)