Sentences with phrase «of mockumentary»

The new DVD comes with a gag reel and deleted scenes, a «making of mockumentary» hosted by Huggy Bear, a director commentary track and the theatrical trailer.

In fact, it's pretty close to heresy, and though no one has even come close to matching the success of mockumentary extraordinaire Christopher Guest, the fact that Debbie Isitt even believes she has a chance is absolute lunacy.

In truth, while he invented the satiric subgenre of the mockumentary, even that can only be exploited so often.

Baz Luhrmann's Australian cult classic manages to be surprisingly touching and flat - out hilarious all at once, with wild costumes, farcical situations, and deadpan use of the mockumentary format hiding laughs behind laughs that you'll only find on a rewatch.

When the film heads to Blu - ray and digital, you can expect to see part two of their mockumentary as shot by Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi.

Hard Day's Night is something of a mockumentary, providing a comic, self - deprecating look at the lives of these pop sensations.

-- «Waiting for Guffman» (1997): Christopher Guest and his merry company of mockumentary players crafted a hilarious take on a small - town theater troupe.

And along the way, it launches the still - influential format of the mockumentary and the directorial career of Rob Reiner.

A mixture of mockumentary, re-enactments and in camera narration, the story really comes together in the last act.

More than anything, Killing Gunther demonstrates that Christopher Guest has a lot to atone for with his pioneering of the mockumentary, which has become the lazy, go - to style for low - budget comedies.

Gillespie also makes great use of mockumentary interviews and fourth - wall breaking to give it an extra dose of panache.

This is a sports film and a gangster flick in one, teased with the satire of a mockumentary but fueled by the frisson that this all happened pretty much as articulated.

De Blasio will be part of a mockumentary based on the plot of «Homer at the Bat,» a baseball - centric 1992 episode of «The Simpsons.»

Last year, after a peer - reviewed study showed that butter was not the health hazard the media would have had us believe, Organic Valley celebrated with an ad campaign produced in the style of a mockumentary, charting the «war on butter» that began in the 1950s and the subversive Organic Valley dairy farmers who never stopped working toward a «butter» future.

If you think of all mockumentaries, in general they're all pretty good, if not classics.

Not exact matches

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.

Heck there was even a mockumentary made of the assassination of Bush and this looks like Obama?????? LOL man oh man.

Christopher Guest — former «Saturday Night Live» cast member and creator of iconic mockumentaries Waiting For Guffman, Spinal Tap and Best In Show — is coming back to TV, teaming up with Jim Piddock...

He even does a turn as «Ian Faith,» manager of the band in Rob Reiner's classic mockumentary This is Spinal Tap.

Watch the Hysterical Mockumentary of a Musical About the Postpartum Period, Cracked Nipples and All

Presented as a mockumentary, The Mind of Marlo delivers a short, hilariously down - the - earth story despite the wildly absurd nature of its premise.

Yet, directors Huck Botko and Andrew Gurland twist the formula ever so slightly, electing a mockumentary approach that captures the whole event from the handheld perspective of the teens.

it was certainly a more accessible film in terms of the sci - fi genre and has bolstered the credibility, much like Children of Men, however, I disagree with the seamless integration of the film styles and think the trailer misled, as the film is not really mockumentary at all.

Dax Shepard delivers an I'm Still Here - style mockumentary of staggering incompetence with Brother's Justice.

In this mockumentary spoof of «Paul - Is - Dead» theories, a mysterious voice on the tape reveals a secret Beatles history, chronicling McCartney's fatal accident, the cover up, and dozens of unknown clues, exposing «Paul McCartney» as an impostor!

But, she's also something of a victim of circumstance, growing up under an abusive mother (Allison Janney) and later marrying an wife - beater, although the mockumentary style leaves open the possibility that Hardin could be stretching the truth, with them calling her a liar every - time she flashes back to an abusive episode.

Andy Samberg may not be in Christopher Guest's league — yet — but his latest mockumentary, Tour De Pharmacy, has plenty of moments that will make you snicker.

This occasionally humorous mockumentary focuses on the rags - to - riches story of an amateur boxer (Orlando Bloom) who suddenly ends up in a championship fight.

Beginning in the mockumentary style of a Christopher Guest movie, «I, Tonya» introduces its motley crew of lower - class characters with a series of interviews that invites us to laugh at them right out of the gate.

There's a trove of laughs to be found here, courtesy of the ineffable Jonathan Winters, which somewhat override the labored mockumentary gimmick.

(Think of a Christopher Guest mockumentary, only more self - consciously twee.)

The point of the film's mockumentary structure is to approach Harding's fall from grace in multiple ways, embracing some of its unsavoury aspects with tabloid glee, but then reversing its position and giving her a day in court.

His new film, screening in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival, combines his skills at narrative and documentary filmmaking to create a brutal mockumentary of loosely connected vignettes about the propaganda - and conflict - riddled Donbass region in eastern Ukraine.

With such a dynamic central performance, this hilarious mockumentary account of Tonya Harding's rivalry with Nancy Kerrigan skates close to celebrating her

Often collaborating with «Conchords» star Jermaine Clement, Waititi has previously seesawed too far into quirk (2007's oddball romance «Eagle vs Shark») and risen to heights of comic understatement (2015's vampire mockumentary «What We Do in the Shadows»).

If you weren't lucky enough to see his offbeat writing - directing work in 2014's hilarious vampire mockumentary «What We Do in the Shadows» or HBO's comedy series «Flight of the Conchords» about the Kiwis» fourth most popular folk duo, you might have missed him.

These pieces (Guest deplores the word «mockumentary») tell the tales of ordinary - seeming folk... Read More»

Disco and Atomic War (In Russian, English, Estonian and Finnish with subtitles) Cold War Era mockumentary painting a humorous picture of what life was like behind the Iron Curtain for citizens of Estonia being constantly subjected to Communist propaganda.

One of the real travesties of this year was that this music mockumentary from the Lonely Island somehow slipped past people.

Instead, the film takes a surprising mockumentary approach that is obscene, absurd and most of all, hilarious.

The comic mockumentary has become a full - fledged genre, thanks to the consistent efforts of Christopher Guest (from Waiting For Guffman to For Your Consideration) and the decidedly inconsistent efforts of numerous others.

Zak Penn's first mockumentary, the often hilarious «making of» spoof Incident at Loch Ness, nails the format and hits the punchlines with perfect timing, but never shakes its acute self - awareness.

Yet another mockumentary, which are always very hit (Best in Show) or miss (Bruno), this one follows a group of vampires Real World style in the months leading up to a large masquerade for the undead.

Written and directed by SNL alumnus Taran Killam, this interminably shrill mockumentary sees a mismatched group of incompetent hitmen out to take Arnie's title as best in the biz.

(Waititi is best known for directing on Flight Of The Conchords and the vampire mockumentary What We Do In The Shadows.)

Rob Reiner walks that fine line in his hilarious mockumentary rockumentary, ostensibly the portrait of a has - been metal band resurrected from a well - deserved obscurity for a disastrous comeback tour.

While not as jam - packed with laughs as some of his earlier work, this mockumentary — about a competition for minor - league and college sports mascots — still averages more laughs than almost any comedy you can name from the past six months.

«What We Do in the Shadows» sounds like a bad comedy sketch — a «Real World» - esque reality show with vampires in place of horny millennials — but it's actually a really funny satire of the vampire subgenre that's done in the deadpan style of a Christopher Guest mockumentary.

Wilderpeople is a generous genre blend, with Waititi, director of the wacky, vampiric mockumentary What We Do in the Shadows, finding cheeky jokes in the duo's perilous journey.

An ever adventurous and acutely observational storyteller who has cinematically explored live volcanoes, Antarctica, and the menacing company of Klaus Kinski, Herzog is also a highly self - aware creature, as evidenced by his self - satirizing participation in the 2004 mockumentary Incident at Loch Ness and his later stunt casting as a villain in Jack Reacher.