The Official A Prairie Home Companion Love Thread- Page 3

Posted: 6/11/06 at 12:02am

GLEBB, you gotta see NASHVILLE!!!
you are gonna fall RIGHT IN LOVE with Ronee Blakley!!!!

i'm a big Altman fan too!

i was gonna wait til i could watch A PRARIE HOME COMPANION with my mama but this thread has me so excited i think i wanna go ahead & see it asap!

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 12:29am

n69n...

While it's a great movie, and you should see it ASAP, I think you should wait to see it with your mother. It will make the whole experience more special. Updated On: 6/11/06 at 12:29 AM

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/11/06 at 6:18am

I hear you n69n. I've always been curious about Nashville.
Isn't Lily in that one too?
See A Prairie Home Companion twice. Once now and again with your mama. :)

[Glebb]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 8:58pm

Just got home and caught the end of HBO - First Look.
Almost forgot how sweet this movie is.

[sweetestsiren]

Posted: 6/14/06 at 9:24pm

I saw this last night and quite liked it. Very charming, slightly offbeat and lots of laughs. It seemed to be a good representation of Garrison's style (I'm not familiar with Altman's as a director). I loved the cast, as well. :)

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/15/06 at 11:31pm

For everyone's listening pleasure, here is Meryl Streep and Lily Tomlin singing "My Minnesota Home" in WMA format.

BTW, I purchased this track legally. :)

http://rapidshare.de/files/23178640/12_My_Minnesota_Home__The_Old_Folks_at_Home_.wma.html

[lukeboy25]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 10:56am

I was brought up listening to prairie home every saturday night and while lately it's been hard to make time for it, this movie was pretty much everything I missed. Tomlin and Streep were great together and the cowboys never failed. This might be me being slow but I didn't get the joke of (the very pregnate) Maya Rudolph drinking with Noir...Was it a joke? It was the only thing that miffed me. I thought the movie was a great reminder of the things that really matter in life and illistrates prefectly how music can connect us all.

[kissmycookie]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:01am

It was a wonderful mixture of the hysterical with the poignant!

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:38am

No one wanted the song?

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:42am

I've read where Prairie Home is a lot like Gosford Park? Not in story, but style, with the overlapping dialogue. The dinner scene in Gosford Park is one of my all time favorites, even though I didn't care for the movie that much. The idiot inspector guy drove me nuts!

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:48am

Fiction-

The style is the same as Gosford Park (which I loved, btw), but the difference is that there's few storylines going on at once in Prairie Home... It's much easier to hear what's going on.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:54am

I loved Gosford Park too, but I thought the story lacked something. It tried to be a whodunit, but the audience already knew. And I had no idea what was going on with the poor girl whohad one dress who and married the rich guy, who wouldn't buy her more clothes.

And Mr Witherspoon (I have no idea how to spell his last name) surprised me.

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 11:59am

It tried to be a whodunit, but the audience already knew.

That's interesting you say that. I didn't like the movie when I first saw it in 2001. But, there was something intruiging about it. So, I bought it and watched it several times. I began to appreciate it more and more, not so much as a whodunit (which Altman said he wasn't trying to make), but as a comedy of manners from the servant's point of view. I think the movie was mismarketed.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 12:06pm

I understood it was from the servant's POV. If you notice, there is a servant in every single frame. The upstairs crowd can't live without the servants. Maggie's character makes that obvious in the beginning, when she makes her servant open the thermus.

Everytime I watch it (which I haven't done in a while) I notice something new.

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 12:09pm

I totally agree.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 1:51pm

I listened to a sample of Lindsay on the soundtrack for Prairie Home, and I wasn't thrilled. Is she better in the film?

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:37pm

Well, the thing is that none of the singers in the movie are supposed to be Grammy-worthy. It's the earnestness and energy that they put into their performances. That said, Lohan's song is funny because:

1) She's not supposed to sing very well
2) She forgets her words, and improvises them on the spot.

Personally, I think she sounded nice and charming. And it was live, so we all get to hear what she sounds like without a studio.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:47pm

I knew she wasn't trying to win anything (Is she ever?) but just curious.

We listened to Meryl and Lily too. That was pretty fun. I don't know if we'll see the movie in theatres, but we'll definitely see it when it comes on DVD, and buy the album.

And broadway86, what movies HAVEN'T you seen?

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 2:50pm

lol I'm sure there's many I still have to see, but I'm a movie buff. That's what I do during the summer, as well as much of my free-time. Thankfully, my library has all of the DVDs I could possibly ask for. And they're free, which makes it easier.

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:11pm

I'm guessing you either mean school library, or the town library.

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:17pm

My town library, but my school library has some rare movies.

Oh, and thanks for downloading the song. I figured that people would want to hear that, but I guess not. Updated On: 6/16/06 at 04:17 PM

[Fiction Writer]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:27pm

You misunderstood... Last night, my boyfriend and I listened to a clip off amazon.com.

I'll download the clip and save it. Zach will want to hear the whole thing.

[broadway86]

Posted: 6/16/06 at 4:53pm

Whoops. My bad. :)

[Cruel_Sandwich]

Posted: 6/26/06 at 11:46pm

Just saw it today. I loved loved loved loved this film and I don't even like the radio show. Robert Altman is an utter genius and hopefully this won't be his last film.

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 6/27/06 at 12:35am

I love the radio show and I loved the film! It was an absolutely perfect tribute both to the writing of Garrison Keillor and to the actual "A Prairie Home Companion." Hearing jingles for Powdermilk Biscuits and Bee Bop a Ree Bop Rhubarb Pie made me so very happy

Not to mention the utter perfection that was Dusty and Lefty and Guy Noir. I will definitely be watching this movie again!

PS--I utterly adore Gosford Park! It is a movie that gets better and better every time I watch it.