Waiting for Guffman (Guest, 1996): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.15pm
This film, part of the Christopher Guest season at Prince Charles Cinema, is also a £1 for members movie. Full details here.Time Out review:
First in a trio of fond satires on small-time strivers (Best in Show and A Mighty Wind
being the others), Christopher Guest's spoof documentary tracks the earnest
enthusiasm and goofy dedication of a ragtag troupe of amateur thesps
putting on a musical - 'Red, White and Blaine' - in celebration of the
anniversary of their hick town in Minnesota. Guest's effete Corky St
Clair is the prissy master of ceremonies - a resident genius, if you
believe his collaborators, who include Eugene Levy's vaudevillian dentist, Parker Posey's toothy ex-Dairy Queen waitress, and another superlative turn
from Fred Willard and Catherine O'Hara as a Mr and Mrs team of travel agents. There are
some raucous moments (Corky's hip-swivelling domestic dance moves are a
sight to behold), but more often the comedy has the slow burn of a
richly nuanced and non-judgmental character study.
Nicholas Barber
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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