Word: guffman
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...Guest, who with Eugene Levy co-wrote the heavily improvised script, has launched another of his wee, wry curiously compassionate comedies. It may not be quite as funny as their masterpiece, Best in Show, but it is, I think, superior in energy, characterizations and narrative strength to Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind...
...humanity at its most chaotic and unpredictable.Legendary images from their films include rockers utterly incapable of finding their way to a stage in “This is Spinal Tap,” the slapdash creation of a disastrous community play in “Waiting for Guffman,” and a frantic quest for a Weirmaraner’s chew toy in “Best in Show.” Adding to the anarchy is the fact that all those scenes were improvised.But at a recent roundtable interview held in anticipation of their latest creation...
...Your Consideration” may still leave diehard Christopher Guest fans wanting more of his traditional spontaneity. Writers and actors Guest and Eugene Levy—credited with other such independent film successes as “Best in Show,” “Waiting for Guffman,” and “A Mighty Wind”—have created a genre all their own. In this collaboration, Guest and Levy rejoin their usual ensemble of a dozen or so outstanding character actors to give a farcical inside look at their own game, filmmaking...
...Borat is one of three prominent, eagerly anticipated U.S. comedies gracing the Festival. The others are For Your Consideration, the latest in Christopher Guest's semi-improvisational parodies (following Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind) and Stranger Than Fiction, in which America's top film funnyman Will Ferrell taps a kinder, gentler side - Motion Picture Academy members, attention must be paid...
...could you? You weren’t a student actor in Oak Park, Ill., during the mid-to-late-1990s, after all. Well, Frances is an institution in my hometown of Oak Park, a sort of female version of Corky St. Clair from “Waiting for Guffman...