Sentences with phrase «a mighty wind»

Christopher Guest is getting his band of improv» ing geniuses (featured in comedies like Best in Show, Waiting for Guffman and A Mighty Wind) back together for another mocumentary, this time exploring the world of mascots.

The paradox is that the Spirit is also a movement, a mighty wind, a rushing river, a burning tongue of fire setting our mouths and our minds and our hearts on fire.

There is a storm over the sea and a mighty wind; these were often indications of God's power.

And suddenly a sound came from heaven like the rush of a mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

Symbolizing the divine breath that filled the first humans with life, the rushing mighty wind overwhelms the senses, reminding believers that «there lives the dearest freshness deep down things... Because the Holy Spirit over the bent world broods with warm breast and with ah!

Also leaping to mind is the director who raised the «mockumentary» to high comedic art: Christopher Guest has not only directorial but screenwriting credits on most of his movies, which include Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind.

Suddenly the whole place was smoking, and the disciples began to look like so many oversized trick birthday candles, crowned with tongues of fire that even the mighty wind could not blow out.

(V. 11b) There was a mighty wind Not in the wind was Yahweh And after the wind earthquake Not in the earthquake was yahweh

I personally have met several such mystics - men and women who have known what it is to be filled with a rushing mighty wind, such as the earliest Christians experienced on the day of Pentecost, and who have become intensely aware of that same unity in the spiritual world that science has established in the world of matter.»

For people who have been forced to become foreigners in their own land, who have been driven from their properties and who have been pushed around by the powerful like the mighty wind blows the dust around, ashes, as a moment of the continuum of the pilgrimage of life become most powerful.

Films include This is Spinal Tap, Clue, The Big Picture, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and many more.

He won a Theatre World Award for Rupert Holmes's Accomplice; Grammy Award for the title song A Mighty Wind, written with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy; Oscar nomination for Best Song A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow, written with his wife, Annette O'Toole.

There's a mighty wind blowing through the Solar System — a gale of hot ions and high - energy particles that are blasted outwards by the fiery heat of the Sun.

The core characters remain Jim (Jason Biggs, Saving Silverman, American Pie 2) and Jim's Dad (Eugene Levy, Dumb & Dumberer, A Mighty Wind), and Stifler (Seann William Scott, Bulletproof Monk, Old School).

In 2003, after re-teaming with Waiting for Guffman cohort Christopher Guest to blow A Mighty Wind, he took a supporting role in former MTV beauty queen Jenny McCarthy's comedy Dirty Love.

The two most recognized, however, are of an older generation, Mrs. Stifler (Jennifer Coolidge, «Legally Blonde,» «Best in Show») and Mr. Levenstein (Eugene Levi, «A Mighty Wind» and an original member of the «SCTV» comedy troupe).

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, like the other films co-concocted by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy, WAITING FOR GUFFMAN, BEST IN SHOW, and A MIGHTY WIND, is a wry exercise in improvisation by an intrepid cast working from scenarios and guided only by their imagination and daring.

Lastly, the humor factor has been ratcheted up here with the presence of such comedic personalities as Parker Posey (Laws of Attraction, A Mighty Wind) and Ryan Reynolds.

Irrational Man is set for release in the States on July 17th, with a cast that also includes Parker Posey (A Mighty Wind) and Jamie Blackley (If I Stay).

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Lynch is best known these days for her Emmy and Golden Globe award - winning role as Glee's cheerleading squad leader Sue Sylvester, but she's also part of Christopher Guest's mock - doc ensemble, turning in great work in Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration.

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Eugene Levy in «A Mighty Wind» and Catherine O'Hara in «For Your Consideration» are amazing.

Mascots (Grade: C), Christopher Guest's first mockumentary since A Mighty Wind (and first feature as a director in over...

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Christopher Guest defined the mockumentary genre with cult hits «Waiting for Guffman», «A Mighty Wind», «For Your Consideration», and most notably, «Best in Show».

But after a string of loopy comic gems that included 1997's «Waiting for Guffman,» 2000's «Best in Show,» 2003's «A Mighty Wind» and 2006's «For Your Consideration,» Guest didn't direct another one of those films for a decade, which made Saturday's 8:30 a.m. screening of his new «Mascots» at the Toronto Film Festival worth an early wake - up call.

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Whatever the reasoning, it appears A Mighty Wind will not be taking the country by storm.

Thanks to that hit, Levy, at 56, is experiencing career - high momentum, with scene - stealing parts in the smash hip - hop comedy «Bringing Down the House» and the critically praised folkie satire «A Mighty Wind.»

Levy and Guest returned to the format in «Best in Show» (2000) and this spring's «A Mighty Wind.»

«A Mighty Wind» transports Guest and co-writer Levy's proven formula — a group of starry - eyed dreamers prepare for a life - transforming event — to the world of 1960s folk music and a reunion concert at New York's Town Hall.

To begin with, despite the authentic look of the interviews shots and old grainy footage, A Mighty Wind is not really a documentary about three former folk music headliners.

The movie Bernie is written in a mockumentary format, as are the equally sarcastic films A Mighty Wind and The Truman Show.

The story of a fictional metal / cock rock band told through talking head interviews that chronicle their iconic ups and downs, Spinal Tap is our best, early glimpse at the team who'd go on to make Waiting for Guffman, A Mighty Wind and Best in Show.

The squeaky - clean image of country / gospel music is contrasted with the muddied personal lives of the performers in the «mocumentary» A Mighty Wind.

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Is psychotherapy ripe for a mockumentary, the way dog contests were in Best in Show or folk music was in A Mighty Wind?

Or Catherine O'Hara in «A Mighty Wind.»

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A road trip later in the picture offers a change of pace, but this is a slice of life of one of many trying to make it on the folk circuit, and the Coens capture every detail, acknowledging their fondness for their era, while being able to laugh at it as well (though without getting as broad as Christopher Guest «s «A Mighty Wind,» the last major folk movie).

Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara, who co-starred in Christopher Guest's «Best in Show,» «A Mighty Wind» and «For Your Consideration,» have a new television series, their first together since the mighty «SCTV» back in the late - middle, early - late 20th...

Soon he'll be back in A Mighty Wind, in which he plays another idiot who laughs uproariously at his own jokes so that his silent listeners will know they're funny, and who spouts quotable eager - beaver nonsense like «it's the kind of infectious that's good to spread around.»

A Mighty Wind is to folk music what Best in Show was to dog shows and Waiting for Guffman was to community theater.

The cast of characters in A Mighty Wind is expansive, and intimacy is lost here.

A Mighty Wind starts off with a bang.

A Mighty Wind is entertaining nonetheless.

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A Mighty Wind is pretty much of the same standard as Best In Show and Waiting For Guffman.