A Mighty Wind/Spinal Tap

[Smoker29]

It's not playing in Cincinnati, but have any of you out of towners seen this flick? For you Spinal Tap Fans, you must watch the trailer.

I saw "The Folksmen" on Letterman tonight and had to check it out.

God I want to see this movie.


http://amightywindonline.warnerbros.com/index.php

[slow-dog]

Well, it's got Parker Posey and Harry Shearer. How could you go wrong?

[Smoker29]

I wonder if this is going to hit the Esquire or if it's going to be in the major theaters? I wonder if I'll have to wait for the DVD.

I listened to samples from the soundtrack and it has "The Folksmen" (look real close and you'll see Spinal Tap) doing a hilarious version of "Start Me Up" by the Stones. Hilarious I tell you!

[Smoker29]

Start Me Up (http://www.sonymusic.com/clips/selection/30/AMightyWind/TheFolksmen_StartMeUp_30_ref.mov)

http://www.mtv.com/shared/media/news/images/f/Folksmen,_The/sq-folksmen-underground.jpg

[DogStarMan]

This movie is gonna' be so hillarious. "Best of Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" made me laugh until I cried. I expect no less from this one. They were playing music from the soundtrack on World Cafe the other night. I was suprised by how good they actually are....even if the music stinks. The performers in these movies are masters in their art, as far as I'm concerned.

[coreyhemp]

I just love the fact that Christopher Guest writes only the basic scene when he writes the scripts. Everything else is impromptu. Sure this movies gonna have the same basic principle as the other movies and sure it's nothing new, but I still can't wait to see it.

By the way...I think it hits theaters everywhere on May 9th. So you gotta wait a couple weeks.

[postfeminist]

i can't wait to see this film! please, if anyone sees it, don't say too much yet! i live in athens and god knows when it will show here. :(

:)

[Juliana]

I just can't believe there wasn't a thread about this film sooner.

Here's what I got from Sony/Columbia a month or so ago

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About the film:
DMZ/Columbia/Sony Music Soundtrax present "A Mighty Wind - The Album," the original soundtrack collection of music from the upcoming folk music parody ensemble comedy film directed by Christopher Guest. "A Mighty Wind" opens nationwide on Wednesday, April 16. "A Mighty Wind - The Album" is in stores now.

An affectionate and incisive homage to the contemporary folk music boom of the early 1960s, "A Mighty Wind" is the latest documentary style comedy from director Christopher Guest (perhaps best-known as Nigel Tufnel in "This Is Spinal Tap," Guest has directed "Best Of Show," "Waiting For Guffman" and others). "A Mighty Wind" is the story of a fictitious 60s folk trio, the Folksmen (played by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer), who are called out of retirement to perform at a memorial
concert for the recently deceased folk impresario Irving Steinbloom. Joining the Folksmen at the Steinbloom memorial hootenanny are the equally fictitious and hilarious Mitch & Mickey (Eugene Levy, who cowrote the film with Guest, and Catherine O'Hara) and the New Main Street Singers (David Alan Blasucci, John Michael Higgins, Jane Lynch, Christopher Moynihan,
Steve Pandis, Parker Posey, and Patrick Sauber). All the songs on "A Mighty Wind - The Album" are sung and played by the actors themselves, some of whom learned to play the instruments that can be heard on the tracks.

The music on "A Mighty Wind - The Album" is an assortment of wry send-ups of various folk groups of the early '60s, doing for that halcyon bygone era what "This Is Spinal Tap" did for heavy metal. Songwriting credits for the album's satirical tracks include Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer, Eugene Levy, Annette O'Toole, Catherine O'Hara, CJ Vanston (the album's producer), J.M. Higgins, and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, whose classic "Start Me Up" is skewered by the Folksmen. Available as a CD-Extra on "A Mighty Wind - The Album" is the exclusive Mitch & Mickey "outtake" performance of "When You're Next To Me," which is not in the film nor available anywhere else.

"A Mighty Wind - The Album" is the latest release from DMZ Records, a label formed in 2002 by Oscar®-winning filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen ("Fargo," "O Brother, Where Art Thou?") and multiple Grammy-winning recording artist/producer T Bone Burnett and ("O Brother, Where Art Thou?").

T Bone Burnett called DMZ, at the time of its formation, "...a
musician-centric label..." going on to promise "We're not going to
concentrate solely on traditional American music. We're going to do music that is good, music that will become traditional American music." Burnett added that, among DMZ's plans, the label is "going to be doing quite a few soundtracks. If you're able to put an image with the music, it becomes very powerful There's something that we learned from 'Buena Vista Social Club' and 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?'": the movie theater is a really good radio, a great broadcast medium."

Find out more about the soundtrack and listen to album samples at:
columbiarecords.com/amightywind


A Mighty Wind: The Album CD Bonus content
With your CD copy of A Mighty Wind: The Album, you can access the live video version of Mitch & Mickey's performance of "When You're Next To Me." This exclusive performance is not featured in the film!

[slow-dog]

Alright. I saw it last night. I laughed. It was funny. But it could've been funnier. I think it was too nice to "folk music", so it didn't make as much fun of the subject matter as it could have. In that sense it was disappointing, but I still enjoyed myself. I give it a "Didn't suck"

[Docta]

Register to win free passes to the Cincy showing here (http://cinci.4wmt.com/?go=mightywind).

[DogStarMan]

Originally posted by Juliana
I just can't believe there wasn't a thread about this film sooner.
I posted something (http://msg.woxy.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=6351&highlight=a+mighty+wind) a while back, but nobody ever pays attention to me. I get no respect.

[UbiquitousBaby]

i finally got around to seeing this one today. it was funny and i enjoyed it, but there was definately room for improvement. a lot of the scenes are too improvised: it's painfully obvious that it's just a bunch of people sitting around saying the first thing that pops into their mind, and all trying to say something funnier than the others. and the songs themselves aren't nearly as funny as they could've (and probly should've) been. that being said, i laughed a number of times. don't go too far out of your way to see it (i.e. don't break an Esquire boycott), but if you get the chance sometime, it's worth checking out.

[UbiquitousBaby]

oh and also: parker posey only has a few lines and is given very little face-time. :( :( :(

[bluewilco]

This is a hilarious flick. I think it's better than Waiting For Guffman & Best in Show. Eugene Levy and Fred Willard's characters are great. When Mitch is checking out the model train city, and he says "I wonder what Crabtown would look like in the autumn," I about got myself kicked out of the movie. And need I point out the hilarity of "Wha' Happened!?"

[Phil]

I loved this movies. There was a bunch of different kinds of laughing: snicker, the huge laugh out loud, the smirk. Real clever, very well done. A great ensemble cast. But Fred Willard and Eurgene Levy steal the movie. Every time Eugene Levy speaks, it's just hilarious. Good times, good times.

Now, Everyone say, "Wha' Happenned?"

Ps - It's playing at Newport on the Levee, if you can't find it.

[eyeball]

its in kenwood. I want to see it...but I am so caught up in packing and preparing to move I have little time...maybe before june. maybe.

[Ol-One-Eye]

Originally posted by UbiquitousBaby
oh and also: parker posey only has a few lines and is given very little face-time. :( :( :(
mmmmmmm . . . . . . . Parker Posey ;) She looked sooo good in "Waiting For Guffman"

[postfeminist]

i saw the film last weekend or the weekend before, i don't remember, but i liked it, but i disagree-- i liked guffman & best in show better... maybe i missed some of the hilarity b/c i was never exposed to the folk music of that era, and i get the humor of guffman from having done theater, and i get the humor of best in show from knowing dog show people... parker posey coulda been in it more, but i gotta hand it to Jane Lynch (http://us.imdb.com/Name?Lynch,%20Jane) .... I thought she was as brilliant in Mighty Wind as she was in best in show. :)

eugene levy got annoying to me, which breaks my heart b/c i love him so, but fred willard was genius as always. i would have liked more christopher guest. my fiance told me that he's married to jaime lee curtis, which i found surprising for some reason...