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A Mighty Wind (2003)
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"We can thank Christopher Guest for pulling her out of obscurity and casting her as a lesbian dog trainer in Best in Show. Or we can just thank her incredible talent for stealing scenes by way of riotous awkward comedy. Either way, this week we should remember to be thankful for Jane Lynch. You may have seen her recently in Role Models as the formerly coke-addicted founder of a mentoring organization. Or maybe you’ve seen her in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Talladega Nights or Guest’s A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration. In most of her roles, she plays opposite the best comedians in the business, yet she still supplies her films w "
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"I always enjoy Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind on a variety of levels. First, there’s the watching of a batch of actors who truly know where their towels are to an extent that they can largely make a movie up as they’re going along. Then there’s the level on which I admire the editing of the footage that was shot into a coherent story. Finally there’s the mental image that follows every scene of the cast breaking each other up and requiring another take to try and play it straight. Of the three Best in Show probably works the best in terms of being an actual movie. The characters are the best developed and it’s played straight for the most part, only rarely diving into overt gags. The other two are filled with more “funny” moments as opposed to letting the humor bubble up from the outrageous situations the characters find themselves in. Still, though, all three are a treat to watch. Plus, watch Christopher Guest through the films and you’ll see how scary good ... "
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"This week, thanks to The Rocker, we can add another fictional band to the long list of music groups created solely for the movies. They’re called Vesuvius, and they’re an ‘80s hair band with a hit song titled “Promised Land.” As part of the film’s marketing, the track was offered as a free download for play on Rock Band (see the clip above). But if you ask me, the wrong tune was used in the promotion. Another song from the soundtrack, also credited to Vesuvius, is called “Pompeii Nights,” and it’s definitely the better of the two. I’m not surprised, though. While most people favor the songs of Spinal Tap, a once-fictional band that has become popular enough to evolve into a “semi-fictional” performing act, I’ve preferred such gems as “The Whites of Their Eyes” by PEZ® People, from The Big Picture. Also co-written by
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"Folk music between the eras marked by the giants Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan mostly sucked. It is among the biggest ironies of music that the most liberal musical artists in America recorded lightweight, unplugged songs that bore little resemblence to the root music they were supposedly paying homage to. This era is the subject of A Mighty Wind, another one of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, in the vein of This Is Spinal Tap. Unlike that comic masterpiece, A Mighty Wind doesn't try to deconstruct some of the pretenciousness and disengenious nature of the music that is its subject. Rather, it's goes for broke with a variety of hit-and-miss jokes, many of which have little do with the subject. When it's funny, it's hilarious (a monolouge from Fred Willard literarlly had me on the floor, and I laughed so hard I was afraid I was going to vomit). When it's not, it's just lame, as when it discuss "witches of color". The main story revolves around a tribute concert given for a ... "
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"'Waiting for Guffman'... the Chris Guest film that i had unaccountably missed seeing up to now , unaccountably, because i AM one of those people who can quote, endlessly from 'This Is Spinal Tap'.. and , of course i love 'Best in Show' and 'A Mighty Wind'... so it's a must for Guest fans...members of the variable ensemble are here ..Catherine O'hara, Eugene Levy, Parker Posey ,Fred Willard..Apart from the beautifully observed , totally 'camped out' Corky,(Guest)...highlight,for me is Parker Posey in pure 'White Trash' gum-chewin mode,with her innapropriately sexy audition,of 'Teachers Pet'...seemingly quite happy , whatever happens!!... "Waiting for Guffman"... .hurrah!!! "
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This is Spinal Tap
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"There are some lines from books or from movies or from music that spread through the popular consciousness so completely that you don't even have to have read the book or seen the movie to know them. The first line of A Tale of Two Cities, the first few bars of Beethoven's Fifth, half the lines in Casablanca... Somehow I've managed to get this far through life without having seen This is Spinal Tap, yet I already knew about Nigel Tufnel and turning the amps up to 11. I was expecting to see the band wandering around lost back-stage and that the drummers would all meet an untimely fate.It's a shame actually, because I do think this detracts somewhat from the film. I had a similar feeling when I did finally get to see Casablanca a few months back... I couldn't help but sit there counting off the well-known exchanges and waiting for the next one to turn up. Also, I've probably come to Spinal Tap a bit backwards. "
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"Watched this one the other night (probably should have watched it on Sunday, before the oscars, it would have made Nicole Kidman's face all that funnier).Not quite as side splittingly funny as his previous three films. This one abandons the 'mockumentary' format and tries for... well, I suppose 'mockudrama' would be a way to describe it. Interviews are still a big portion of the show, although it is frequently the interviewers who are the focus of the parody a lot of the time.Catherine O'Hara is brilliant as usual, and undergoes the most depressingly familiar transformation, from hard working underappreciated thespian uncomfortable with the 'fame' part of the actor's life, to absolute publicity hag, botoxed and tucked beyond recognition. Fred Willard is cluelessly hilarious as usual, and the usual gang of regulars have their moments (I love all the older characters confusing references to that mysterious thing called the 'internet'). Rick ... "
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