Taking Woodstock with Alex Ross Perry

Blank Check with Griffin & David

Blank Check Productions / Talkhouse

Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 155 minutes

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Summary

Writer and director Alex Ross Perry (Christopher Robin) returns to Blank Check to discuss 2009’s Taking Woodstock. But is this a comedy tho? Did this film win AARP’s Movies for Grownups Award for Best Grownup Love Story? Is the portrayal of an LSD experience accurate? Together they examine the career of Demetri Martin, a mysterious bucket of glitter, Sha Na Na and straight trippin’ boo. Plus, Griffin shares a Martin Scorsese Woodstock story and Alex brings the chocolate milk! This episode is sponsored by [ZipRecruiter](https://www.ziprecruiter.com/blank) and Abrams Books’ new release [The Cohen Brothers: This Book Really Ties the Films Together](https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/coen-brothers_9781419727405/) by Adam Nayman and Produced by White Little Lies. And look our for an upcoming screening of Alex Ross Perry’s new film, [Her Smell](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7942742/), starring Elisabeth Moss, Cara Delevingne and Dan Stevens!

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0:00.0	A generation podcasted in his backyard.
0:24.4	It's a tagline for the movie.
0:27.5	Fuck you.
0:28.6	The quotes are all bad with four them in the word generation began in his backyard.
0:34.3	Oh, I mean, I guess so.
0:36.3	I suspected you also might have favored a line which jumped out at me as something
0:40.4	from the trailer, which is go see what the center of the universe looks like, which
0:43.3	is thinking of are you believe only halfway memorable line only because it's in the trailer.
0:48.1	I would agree with that.
0:49.3	It's not listed on the I have to be quotes page and I didn't want to paraphrase it.
0:53.0	Is that a reason to pick listed on the I am to be quotes, babe?
0:55.6	Yeah.
0:56.6	VW guy like ants making thunder classic Paul Dana character.
1:01.8	Of course.
1:02.8	Yes.
1:03.8	Elliot finds his father pouring a jug into the freshly filled swimming pool.
1:06.8	Elliot dad that's bleached for the laundry.
1:09.5	Jake it kills the germs.
1:10.8	What's the difference?
1:11.8	That trailer that line really disturbed me.
1:14.4	There's really really freaked me out.
1:16.8	Can people swim in a pool that has bleach in it?
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