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...comedy classic. Christopher Guest used that same seriousness in three more improvised comedies: Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and a new folk-music film, A Mighty Wind. Guest, who writes his movies with Eugene Levy, reunited with Tap alumni Harry Shearer and Michael McKean as the Folksmen in this film. All four sat with TIME's Richard Corliss and Josh Tyrangiel for a folksy conversation...
...FOLKSMEN WERE PART OF AN SNL SKIT IN 1984. IS THAT HOW THE IDEA FOR THE MOVIE STARTED...
...wanted to play music in a movie, and we knew there was no Folksmen movie--that idea doesn't have enough elements in it, obviously. I knew a lot about folk music, and I thought, I don't think this has been covered that often in movies...
...three folk groups who have reunited for the concert. The most prominent of the three is Mitch and Mickey, a hopelessly maudlin duo played by Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy, who sports one of the more grating speech impediments in recent memory. Another band, the Folksmen, is comprised of the same actors playing the same instruments they butchered in Spinal Tap, but reinvented as balding, anachronistic folk singers. The script makes a serious mistake in under-using the Folksmen, replacing the genuine tension of their metal alter egos with some inane squabbling over set lists. Rounding...