A Prairie Home Companion

modage · March 06, 2006, 10:34:02 PM

i didnt think i could've been less interested in this, but now i am.

snaporaz · March 06, 2006, 11:31:39 PM

regularkarate, you from austin?

i've listened to npr for ages already, but i just moved to austin svereal months ago and have since had my first opportunities to listen to a prarie home companion. i have a love-hate relationship with that show. i can never find garrison keillor's voice any less pompous. but as for the show itself...well, i love the guy noir and the librarian bits.

anyways, yeah it's north american premiere is opening up the sxsw festival...i've half-heartedly thought about going, but i'm sure it's been sold out for a while already.

Reinhold · March 06, 2006, 11:49:52 PM

heads up, mod: altman is doing a screening/discussion at the Museum of the Moving Image (astoria) in april.

Ghostboy · March 07, 2006, 12:06:08 AM

Thanks for the warning about the trailer, RK. I'll skip it for now. Will you be at the premiere on Friday?

Pozer · March 07, 2006, 12:10:53 AM

Trailer: very shitty
Anticipation: still very highly

squints · March 07, 2006, 12:08:44 PM

what was so shitty about the trailer? i didn't think it was that bad

RegularKarate · March 07, 2006, 12:31:54 PM

Quote from: Ghostboy on March 07, 2006, 12:06:08 AM
Thanks for the warning about the trailer, RK. I'll skip it for now. Will you be at the premiere on Friday?

Yes, I will be there, hoping that PT shows up.

samsong · March 09, 2006, 09:40:33 AM

Quote from: Xidentity Crixax on March 06, 2006, 11:49:52 PM
heads up, mod: altman is doing a screening/discussion at the Museum of the Moving Image (astoria) in april.

where'd you find information about this/how do i get a muthafuckin ticket?!

pete · March 09, 2006, 10:45:25 AM

it's be great if you go into the theater, there will just be a parrot sitting there, and then you realize you've walked into the showing of "A Pirate Home Companion."

RegularKarate · March 11, 2006, 12:13:37 AM

I just saw this.

PT wasn't there, unfortunately... and because he was busy with a play, Altman wasn't there, BUT John C. Reilly was and HE SAT RIGHT NEXT TO ME!
I ended up just giving him a hurried and panicked thank-you-for-being-awesome handshake on the way out.

anyway, the movie was pretty damn entertaining. It's not at all an insult when I say that my grandmother would love it. It was so obviously written by Keillor yet at the same time so obviously an Altman film. It was funnier than the radio show usually is, but still the same kind of humor and when the drama elements kick in, it gets a little cheesy, but it's so whimsical that it doesn't matter much.

In the end, I laughed a lot, but it's unlikely to end up on any top ten lists. And if there was any evidence of PT in it, it was burried by it's Altmaness... though I think there were a few shots that if given a different soundtrack and maybe overcranked a little looked like they could have been in a PT movie.

PT is in the Special Thanks... above everyone else. I clapped when I saw his name... so did one other person in the theater. JC probably thought I was retarded or something.

The Red Vine · March 11, 2006, 12:25:12 AM

I am truly envious of you.

modage · March 11, 2006, 02:01:59 AM

i am truly envious of all the people who just spent 2 1/2 hours with PT. the movie sounds like kind of a snooze.

Ghostboy · March 12, 2006, 10:01:55 AM

I figured that might be you clapping, RK - I looked for you afterwards, but didn't see you.

The movie is awesome - but people who aren't familiar with the show are going to wonder what the big deal is.

MacGuffin · March 22, 2006, 10:16:09 AM

New Trailer

The Perineum Falcon · March 22, 2006, 11:59:17 AM

So, Garrison Keillor will be on campus and giving a lecture later that same day (April 13) and I have nothing to say to him besides, "what was Altman like?!"