Taking Woodstock

Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Emile Hirsch
Focus Features; Directed by Ang Lee
Rated R; 110 minutes; 2009

In the summer of 69, Eliot Tiber was working at his parents’ motel in the Catskills. Empowered by the gay rights movement of the time, Tiber heard about a concert that was planned and lobbied to have it take place near his motel in White Plains, New York. Soon half a million people were headed his way for an event called Woodstock.

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500 Days of Summer

Zooey Deschanel, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clark Gregg

Fox Searchlight; Directed by Marc Webb

Rated PG-13; 95 minutes; 2009

This post modern love story is never what we expect it to be — it’s thorny yet exhilarating, funny and sad, a twisted journey of highs and lows that doesn’t quite go where we think it will. When Tom, a hapless greeting card copywriter and hopeless romantic, is blindsided after his girlfriend Summer dumps him, he shifts back and forth through various periods of their 500 days “together” to try to figure out where things went wrong. His reflections ultimately lead him to finally rediscover his true passions in life.

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