{"id":7014,"date":"2009-11-15T23:04:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2009-11-15T23:04:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-15T23:04:52","slug":"interview-james-schamus-on-taking-woodstock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2009\/11\/15\/interview-james-schamus-on-taking-woodstock\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: James Schamus on Taking Woodstock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takingwoodstockthemovie.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7015\" title=\"James Schamus Taking Woodstock\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/James-Schamus-Taking-Woodstock.jpg\" alt=\"James Schamus Taking Woodstock\" width=\"480\" height=\"349\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.takingwoodstockthemovie.co.uk\/\">Taking Woodstock<\/a><\/strong> is the latest film from director <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000487\/\">Ang Lee<\/a> and is based on the memoir <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Taking_Woodstock_(book)\">Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life<\/a> by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0770005\/\">James Schamus<\/a><\/strong> is a\u00a0screenwriter and producer who has made many films with Lee including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0119349\/\">The Ice Storm<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0190332\/\">Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0388795\/\">Brokeback Mountain<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He is also the Chief Executive Officer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.focusfeatures.com\/\">Focus Features<\/a>, the arthouse division of Universal Pictures which is one few remaining of its kind in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with James recently when Taking Woodstock screened at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bfi.org.uk\/lff\/\">London film festival<\/a> last month and you can listen to the interview here:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/James_Schamus_on_Taking_Woodstock.mp3]\n<p>You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by <a href=\"http:\/\/phobos.apple.com\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/viewPodcast?id=251424468\">clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Taking Woodstock<\/em><\/strong><em> is out now at UK cinemas<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/James_Schamus_on_Taking_Woodstock.mp3\">Download the interview as an MP3 file<\/a><br \/>\n&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.takingwoodstockthemovie.co.uk\/\">Official UK site for Taking Woodstock<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0770005\/\">James Schamus<\/a> at the IMDb<br \/>\n&gt;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woodstock_Festival\">Find out more about the 1969 Woodstock festival<\/a> at Wikipedia<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview with screenwriter and producer James Schamus about Taking Woodstock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,19,15],"tags":[1208,1206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}