Perhaps Ang Lee is our generation’s Howard Hawks, an all-around pro who is great wherever he chooses to tread. He was known for transcendent pan-cultural Eastern films with a keen, epic eye toward global relationship dynamics way back in the early ’90s when he hit our ass with The Wedding Banquet and Eat Drink Man Woman. Then Emma Thompson hired him to do Sense and Sensibility, and we all thought a pre-internet-slang version of “WTF?” in our heads. How could Ang Lee adapt a Jane Austen novel, given its complete lack of any Chinese character? Like Regi Elliott puzzling why Memoirs of a Geisha included no martial arts, that was when we realized that we were racist and small-minded in our estimation of international autuers and their capabilities. Turns out the best director of awkward relationship dramadies in the world made the best Austen adaptation yet. He went on to make English-language classics like The Ice Storm and Brokeback Mountain as well as handsome Asian gems such as Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Lust, Caution. He’s pretty great.

Demetri Martin is a young comedian who also tap dances between a few different worlds. Sometimes, he an impressively smart and clever stand up humbly stretching the boundaries of his medium with his musical and visual touches as well as recalling previous kings of the intellectual, absurd one-liner such as Steven Wright, Emo Phillips and Mitch Hedburg. At other times, he is an overly precious and cutesy little indie wanker you want to punch right in the mouth. Take a look at his new Comedy Central show Important Things With Demetri Martin to figure out which side you lean toward. Before I sound too skeptical about Martin, let me note that I have found him hilarious more frequently than I have found him exasperating.

Ang Lee has worked with an impressive line-up of actors. Tom Wilkinson. Hugh Grant. Kevin Kline. Tobey Maguire. Elijah Wood. Henry Czerny. Chow Yun-Fat. Eric Bana. Nick Nolte. Sam Elliott. Heath Ledger. Jake Gyllenhaal. Randy Quaid. So it should be no surprise that his latest directorial adventure, Taking Woodstock, stars none other than the acting powerhouse that is…Demetri Martin? Really? I don’t know, okay. I guess I have no reason to complain. I mean, maybe, you know, Demetri just happens to be an awesome actor. Certainly no way to tell at this point.

This is the plot synopsis offered by the imdb:

“A man working at his parents’ motel in the Catskills inadvertently sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969.”

I totally bet the concert is Woodstock. Seriously, if anybody wants to take me up on it, I’ll put down up to $20 on my faith that this movie is about Woodstock.