A Mighty Wind

[bekalex]

I guess I'll pass. It sounds too sad to see. If you're going to play 
it again (sam), at least you could play it right.

Becky
with a 50's ear


At 6:22 AM -0400 4/13/03, Paul Mackin wrote:
>On Sun, 2003-04-13 at 05:27, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>  The New York Times
>>  Sunday, April 13, 2003
>>  'A Mighty Wind': 'Spinal Tap' for Folkies?
>>  By DAVID HAJDU
>>
>>  FOLK music, as Bob Dylan defined it in the mid-1960's,
>>  when he was extricating himself from the genre to
>>  pursue rock 'n' roll, is "a bunch of fat people." Four
>>  decades later, the writer and director Christopher
>>  Guest has provided an illustration to accompany that
>>  definition: "A Mighty Wind," a mightily cutting film
>>  parody of the folk scene, populated mainly by people
>>  who are fat  or bald or old, or cosmetically doctored
>  > to look so. Mr. Dylan and Mr. Guest have each made the
>>  same satiric point, that the world of commercialized
>>  acoustic music that culminated in the "folk boom" of
>>  the Kennedy era is a pathetic joke.
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>(big omission of parts of review)
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>>  Ultimately, the greatest disappointment of "A Mighty
>>  Wind" is the inexplicable absence of any hint of
>>  politics....
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>yes, it is probably hard for people who didn't live through the period
>to quite envision but to the late-50s pop musical ear the liberal and
>mildly left sentiments in this commercial folk music seemed very very
>outre (ootray).
>
>P.