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Taking Woodstock

10 Sep 2009 by Martin Contemprée

Movie

  • In Cinemas: from 27 August 2009

Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) delivers a comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed 1969 Woodstock Music and Arts Festival one of the biggest events in musical history. Unfortunately there are no concert scenes in the film, rather the focus is on Elliot, who never got to see any artists perform either. Sexual awakening (well it was the Age of Aquarius), relationships and survival are the dominant themes, washed down with a whole lot of mud and the odd joint. Some great scenes and laughs amidst the backdrop of this generation defining event.

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Martin Contemprée

Martin Contemprée

Martin is the Co-Director of CCEntertainment and Publisher of the CCE Magazine. He has a background in traditional and new media plus 10 years as a Sydney radio broadcaster at 2SER, FBI and 2RRR. Martin co-founded ‘Club Acoustica’, a Sydney-based original music showcase that saw over 1,500 original musicians perform from 1998 to 2005 and extended into Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide, and has worked as part of the management team for INXS and Jenny Morris. Martin is extremely passionate about music and coordinates the venue bookings, marketing and publicity for all CCE projects.

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