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Paul Dano has played a multitude of complex characters over the course of his over 20-year career. His filmography is one that would make any aspiring actor jealous. Not only has he starred in a number of widely successful and acclaimed films, but he has also held his own against acting greats such as Hugh Jackman and Daniel Day-Lewis.

IMDb users' favorite films from the actor are those that challenge his acting skills and feature him alongside his well-known peers. They are movies that satisfy both the cinephile and the casual movie-lover with thorough character studies and interesting plotlines.

Updated on December 8th, 2022 by Jordan Iacobucci: Less than a year after tearing up Gotham with his turn as the Riddler in Matt Reeves's The Batman, Paul Dano is back in yet another major role. This time, Dano works alongside Steven Spielberg in his semi-autobiographical coming-of-age film, The Fabelmans. As...

Benoit Denizet-Lewis, a contributor to the New York Times Magazine, is a terrific journalist. Last year, in his book America Anonymous, he chronicled eight people and the ways they deal with their addictions (and revealed his own sex addiction in the process).

Now he’s put together American Voyeur: Dispatches From the Far Reaches of Modern Life (Simon & Schuster, $15), a collection of articles, all previously published, on contemporary social topics as varied as a summer camp for pro-life teenagers, dry frat houses, and the founder of Abercrombie & Fitch.

But Denizet-Lewis is gay, and most of the articles involve “gay” topics, including ones about how same-sex marriage is changing gay life, the harried members of the much-maligned National Man/Boy Love Association, a social group for butch gay men, what happens when a street is changed from “Gay Street” to “Green Apple Road,” and the African American subculture of being on...

Director Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain," "Lust, Caution") returns with "Taking Woodstock," an adaptation of Elliot Tiber's autobiography "Taking Woodstock: A true story of a riot, a concert and a life."

Adapted by James Schamus for the big screen, I suggest you take a far out trip with "Taking Woodstock." Peace!

(For a full written movie review of "Taking Woodstock," click here. For interviews with the cast including Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Demetri Martin, and Jonathan Groff, click here)

Persons of interest

* Demetri Martin .... Elliot Tiber aka Eliyahu Teichberg

* Liev Schreiber .... Vilma

* Emile Hirsch .... Billy

* Eugene Levy .... Yasgur

* Imelda Staunton .... Mrs Tiber

* Katherine Waterston .... Penny

* Kevin Sussman .... Stan

* Skylar Astin .... John Roberts

* Kevin Chamberlin .... Jackson Spiers

* Gabriel Sunday .... Steve

* Jason Antoon .... Abbie Hoffman

* Henry Goodman .... Mr Tiber

* Jonathan Groff .... Michael Lang

* Boris McGiver .... Doug

* Michael Zegen .... Bernie

* Will Janowitz .... Chip Monck

* Clark Middleton .... Frank

* Adam Pally .... Artie Kornfeld

* Andy Prosky...

I had a fantastic time meeting the main cast of "Taking Woodstock." And the film is equally thought-provoking (I'll post my review very soon!).

Directed by Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain," "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon") and based on a book by Elliot Tiber called "Taking Woodstock: A True Story of A Riot, A Concert, and A Life," the film is a bittersweet look at the event that changed pop culture forever.

So take a trip with "Taking Woodstock" when it opens this Friday, August 28.

Now, here are my interviews:

Emile Hirsch

The super-fantastic Emile Hirsch and I talked about:

Why He Loves My First Interview With Him For "Milk" (I'm Pretty Proud Of That :happy)

His character Billy

Working with Ang Lee

How he prepared for the role

And His Full-frontal Male Nudity Scene!

Liev Schreiber

We talked about:

His character, Vilma, a drag queen activist who is also Eliott's...

Chicago – In our latest trippy edition of HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film, we have 50 admit-two passes up for grabs to the highly anticipated Chicago screening of “Taking Woodstock” from Oscar-winning director Ang Lee (“Brokeback Mountain” and “Sense and Sensibility”). “Taking Woodstock” stars Emile Hirsch, Liev Schreiber, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Fogler, Demetri Martin, Paul Dano, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff and Eugene Levy.

To win your free pass to the advance screening of “Taking Woodstock” in Chicago courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, all you need to do is answer our question below. That’s it! The screening will be held on Aug. 27, 2009 at 7:30 p.m. in downtown Chicago. Directions to enter this Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.

The movie poster for “Taking Woodstock” with Emile Hirsch, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Paul Dano.

Image credit: Focus Features

Here is the “Taking Woodstock” plot description:

“Taking Woodstock” is...

Movie Jungle has new clips in from Focus Features' "Taking Woodstock," starring Demetri Martin, Emile Hirsch, Imelda Staunton and Liev Schreibe. James Schamus adapts the screenplay based on the memoir by Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte. The film opens in limited locations on August 28th and is helmed by Oscar-winner Ang Lee. Keep in touch with all Focus Features releases including the incredible "Away We Go," "9" and "Thirst." Additionally, we spoke to Thirst director Park Chan-Wook about his critically acclaimed masterpiece and for 9" Tim Burton joined us as well as Timur Bekmambetov...

See new images in from Focus Features' "Taking Woodstock," starring Demetri Martin, Imelda Staunton, Henry Goodman, Jonathan Groff, Emile Hirsch, Eugene Levy. Ang Lee ("Brokeback Mountain") directs. Screenplay is written by James Schamus based on the book by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte. A generation began in his backyard…. From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), comes Taking Woodstock, a new comedy inspired by the true story of Elliot Tiber (Demetri Martin) and his family, who inadvertently played a pivotal role in making the famed Woodstock Music and Arts Festival...

Want to see something that’ll mesmerize you? Check out the brand new teaser poster for “Taking Woodstock.” The film is based on the autobiography of Elliot Tiber and Tom Monte called “Taking Woodstock: A True Story of a Riot, a Concert, and a Life.” Demetri Martin will play Elliot, the guy who provided a base and permit for the Woodstock concert organizers. “Taking Woodstock” also features Imelda Staunton, Live Schreiber, Emile Hirsch, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Eugene Levy. It’s set to rock theaters on August 14th.

In not-so-exciting-teaser-poster-news, here’s the artwork for Roland Emmerich’s “2012.” While the image may be nothing exciting, the film’s plot most certainly is. John Cusack, Amanda Peet, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton, Oliver Platt and Woody Harrelson star in this disaster flick about those who survive a cataclysmic event. The tagline is even pretty compelling: “Who will be left behind?...

Written by James Schamus and based on the book by Elliot Tiber with Tom Monte, Taking Woodstock also stars Tony Award winner Dan Fogler; two-time Olivier Award winner Henry Goodman; two-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton; Tony Award winner Liev Schreiber; Skylar Astin (Spring Awakening); two-time Tony Award nominee Kevin Chamberlin; Paul Dano (Things We Want); Kelli Garner (Dog Sees God); Mamie Gummer (Dangerous Liaisons); and Richard Thomas (A Naked Girl on the Appian Way).

The trades are reporting that Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain) is in talks to direct Life of Pi, an adaptation of Yann Martel's coming-of-age survival tale that Fox 2000 is developing with producer Gil Netter (Markey & Me). The story revolves around a youth who is the lone survivor of a sunken freighter and winds up sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra, an orangutan and a hungry Bengal tiger. The novel was published in 2001 and won the prestigious Man Booker Prize for Fiction the following year. This isn’t the first time Hollywood has tried to bring the story to the screen. Scribe Dean Georgaris (Paycheck) previously penned a screenplay and both M. Night Shyamalan and Alfonso Cuarón (Children of Men) expressed interest in making the film. Most recently, French director Jean-Pierre Jeunet, who wrote a script with his Amelie collaborator Guillaume Laurent, was looking to direct but dropped...