Ang Lee Takes Woodstock
With the help of a Jewish, gay protagonist
| 2:19 PM Aug 28, 2009
Taking Woodstock, Ang Lee’s adaptation of Elliot Tiber’s memoir about returning to the Catskills in the summer of ’69 to help his Jewish-immigrant parents save their motel (“his mother [Imelda Staunton, all mesmerizing rage] is a money-grasping neurotic, and his father [Henry Goodman, defeat personified] is just waiting to die,” writes The Stranger’s critic), hits ...


