I saw A Prairie Home Companion this afternoon, and it was pure joy. Just really really pleasant to watch. And great music, and some of it is just hysterically funny. I'd see it again in a second.
Hey, don't worry about it. Nest full of vampires, you come get me, okay. Box full of puppies, that's more of a judgement call.
Jonathan ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
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Jessica - Jun 18, 2006 4:58:28 pm PDT #2349 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
erikaj - Jun 18, 2006 5:00:49 pm PDT #2350 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
oh, yay!
DebetEsse - Jun 18, 2006 5:01:48 pm PDT #2351 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
I rather liked it, too, although it struck me a little more Altman than Keilor. I am really glad they made it, though, since, like the t-shirt says, "extinct is forever".
erikaj - Jun 18, 2006 5:37:59 pm PDT #2352 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
It strikes me Keillorness might be hard to film and I'm not sure why.
DebetEsse - Jun 18, 2006 5:44:23 pm PDT #2353 of 10001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Well, a lot of the humor is in the descriptions and digressions, which film isn't so great at conveying, at least not in a humorous way.
erikaj - Jun 18, 2006 5:47:44 pm PDT #2354 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
And it's quiet...filming that would look to me like when Yoko Ono asked Paul from Mad about You to film the wind.
Hayden - Jun 18, 2006 8:50:27 pm PDT #2355 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
I'm not a Keillor fan, but I'm Altman fan enough to give the movie a whirl.
SailAweigh - Jun 19, 2006 5:49:52 am PDT #2356 of 10001
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
I saw the Prairie Home Companion on stage in San Diego many, many moons ago. It was a lot of fun. I hope they managed to translate that over to the film, there's such a difference between the feel of a stage performance and a film performance I'm afraid I'd find the film lacking.
erikaj - Jun 19, 2006 5:55:56 am PDT #2357 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
There was a part on The Wire last season where a young cornerboy freaked when he couldn't find his radio station and got PHC about tomatoes. Cause he didn't know when you leave town the stations change. I don't think he'd been anywhere.
Hayden - Jun 19, 2006 7:32:13 am PDT #2358 of 10001
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Don't give away the best joke ever made about Garrison Keillor!