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“Hey Nonny No, Nanny Ninny No”
By Raymond Benson
The Christopher Guest “Ensemble” was on a roll after the success of the wonderful Best in Show (2000), which in turn was the follow-up to the brilliant Waiting for Guffman (1996). I informally call it the “Ensemble” because actor/writer/director Guest tends to make ensemble pictures featuring a stock company of ridiculously talented comic actors. Not all the actors appear in each Christopher Guest movie, but familiar faces are in every title.
It all began, really, with This is Spinal Tap (1984), which Guest did not direct (Rob Reiner did), but Guest and his partners in comedy, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, were likely the driving forces behind this “mockumentary” about a fictional rock band. The mockumentary genre, of course, is a comedy that is presented as if it’s a documentary. Spinal Tap was a...
“Hey Nonny No, Nanny Ninny No”
By Raymond Benson
The Christopher Guest “Ensemble” was on a roll after the success of the wonderful Best in Show (2000), which in turn was the follow-up to the brilliant Waiting for Guffman (1996). I informally call it the “Ensemble” because actor/writer/director Guest tends to make ensemble pictures featuring a stock company of ridiculously talented comic actors. Not all the actors appear in each Christopher Guest movie, but familiar faces are in every title.
It all began, really, with This is Spinal Tap (1984), which Guest did not direct (Rob Reiner did), but Guest and his partners in comedy, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer, were likely the driving forces behind this “mockumentary” about a fictional rock band. The mockumentary genre, of course, is a comedy that is presented as if it’s a documentary. Spinal Tap was a...
- 11/22/2020
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
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