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20 Movies That Were Booed At The Cannes Film Festival

Jessica Kiang, Nicholas Laskin and Drew Taylor

May 12, 2016 2:16 pm

The Cannes Film Festival gets underway in earnest today, which almost inevitably means that some boos will cascade through some of theaters in a few days. The culture of booing in Cannes, while not quite as pre...

Weekend Box Office- ‘Final Destination’ Wins Bloodbath At The B.O.

Gabe Toro

August 30, 2009 3:28 pm

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Nikki Finke quotes a studio executive talking about this weekend, where four R-rated films topped the box office, saying, "What a sad statement on movie-going humanity." Hm, is this executive at Warner Bros., ...

In Theaters: ‘Taking Woodstock,’ Halloween 2,’ ‘Big Fan’

Hunter McClamrock

August 28, 2009 1:00 pm

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Oof. the summer that could ends with a whimper. And in a summer filled with largely shitty and disappointing tent-poles, which were maligned by critics and fans alike and, despite all this, still one of the hi...

‘Taking Woodstock’: Light & Fluffy Reefer

Rodrigo Perez

August 27, 2009 8:27 pm

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Ang Lee's "Taking Woodstock" is rather benign, even toothless. It's also quite warmer and tenderhearted than we expected and not the goofball, wacky "comedy" that the early trailers suggested — but still a lite...

‘Taking Woodstock’ Soundtrack Features The Doors, The Dead, Janis Joplin, Due August 25

Rodrigo Perez

July 28, 2009 7:39 pm

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The soundtrack album for the Ang Lee movie, "Taking Woodstock," comes out via Rhino Records on August 25.The disc features score, composed by Danny Elfman, plus tracks by Woodstock-friendly usual suspects, Rich...

Woodstock Festival Director Calls Source Material For Ang Lee’s ‘Taking Woodstock’ Pretty Much “Nonsense”

Simon Dang

June 6, 2009 4:12 pm

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Woodstock festival director Michael Lang has cast a cloud of skepticism over Ang Lee's upcoming "Taking Woodstock" by revealing that much of Eliot Tiber's recollections, which Lee's film is based on, is "pretty...

Cannes ’09: The Mid-Way Report Card, Is The Festival Not Really Making The Grade?

Rodrigo Perez

May 19, 2009 12:30 am

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The 2009 Cannes Film Festival runs, on paper, from May 13-24, but in reality it, really runs from the 14-23, as that's when the in-competition screenings begin and end. So today is really the mid-way point of t...

Cannes 09 Review: Ang Lee’s ‘Taking Woodstock’ Only Offers A Mildly Potent Buzz, But Is Warmhearted

Rodrigo Perez

May 18, 2009 1:12 pm

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Ang Lee has already stated that after his dark (and relatively mirthless and listless) WWII-era’d picture “Lust/Caution,” he was seeking something much more light on its feet. Enter “Taking Woodstock,” a pictur...

‘Taking Woodstock’ Soundtrack: Dead, Joplin, CSN, Jefferson Airplane, Guthrie, Baez; Pretty Much Par for the Woodstock Course

Katie Walsh

May 18, 2009 12:11 pm

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Hot on the heels of the leaked "Inglourious Basterds" soundtrack list, we’ve got our hot little hands on the Cannes production notes for Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock,” another film where the soundtrack will play...

Cannes ’09: ‘Taking Woodstock,’ Inessential Lee?

Nick Plowman

May 17, 2009 8:38 am

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“Considering the iconic event at its center,” writes Eric Kohn for indieWIRE, “the most surprising aspect of “Taking Woodstock” lies with the decision to make it into a rather flat comedy.”Perhaps that “trailer...

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