Hello Friends,
Grab your popcorn and pull up a stool, its Movie Night again on Vinyl in the Valley!
Tonight we're watching the 2003 film, A Mighty Wind.
Directed by Christopher Guest, A Mighty Wind is filmed in the same mockumentary-style as his previous classics, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman & Best In Show and stars many of the same familar faces including Michael Mckean, Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Harry Shearer, Catherine O'Hara, Jennifer Coolidge, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, Ed Begley, Jr and the always adorable, Parker Posey!
A Mighty Wind "documents" the events leading up to a big revivalist folk concert featuring fictional groups that resemble 60's folk acts like The Kingston Trio, The Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary, etc. Eugene Levy is a real highlight as Mitch Cohen (one half of the fictional folk duo, Mitch & Mickey) as is the always awesome (and sometimes inappropriate), Fred Willard ("Wha Happen?")
If there's one complaint about the movie is that it falls a little flat in comparison to Guest's earlier films but, in fairness, Spinal Tap, Guffman & Best in Show are pretty much perfect films so its a little unfair to compare this movie to those classics! Still, A Mighty Wind is funnier that 90% of the comedies released theatrically anyways.
One song from the movie, "A Kiss At the End of the Rainbow" was even nominated for an Oscar and lost to some shitty new age song from The Lord of the Rings called "Into the West". Try tapping your toes to that crap, kids!
Good movie! Fun music! We give two enthusiastic cocktail glasses up!
Directed by Christopher Guest, A Mighty Wind is filmed in the same mockumentary-style as his previous classics, This is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman & Best In Show and stars many of the same familar faces including Michael Mckean, Fred Willard, Eugene Levy, Harry Shearer, Catherine O'Hara, Jennifer Coolidge, Bob Balaban, Jane Lynch, Ed Begley, Jr and the always adorable, Parker Posey!
A Mighty Wind "documents" the events leading up to a big revivalist folk concert featuring fictional groups that resemble 60's folk acts like The Kingston Trio, The Weavers, Peter, Paul & Mary, etc. Eugene Levy is a real highlight as Mitch Cohen (one half of the fictional folk duo, Mitch & Mickey) as is the always awesome (and sometimes inappropriate), Fred Willard ("Wha Happen?")
If there's one complaint about the movie is that it falls a little flat in comparison to Guest's earlier films but, in fairness, Spinal Tap, Guffman & Best in Show are pretty much perfect films so its a little unfair to compare this movie to those classics! Still, A Mighty Wind is funnier that 90% of the comedies released theatrically anyways.
One song from the movie, "A Kiss At the End of the Rainbow" was even nominated for an Oscar and lost to some shitty new age song from The Lord of the Rings called "Into the West". Try tapping your toes to that crap, kids!
We'll see you next time, friends, until then the Tiki Bar is closed*.
(* not really)
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