A Mighty Wind isn’t folk music history. But it’s close enough to fool you. And after hearing the sweet, and only slightly off-center folk songs, after meeting the “names have been changed to protect ...

Let's all raise a glass and hum for the 20th anniversary of "A Mighty Wind." The 2003 folk music mockumentary that blew into national theaters spring of 2003, drew inspiration from its darker music ...

The comedic geniuses behind "This is Spinal Tap," "Waiting for Guffman" and "Best in Show" turn their keen eyes toward the world of folk music in this fabulously funny new flick. Christopher Guest, ...

The proof is in the payoff. Each film Guest directs and co-writes with Eugene Levy winds up with persuasive performances. You don't leave A Mighty Wind laughing so much as humming. Its dialogue may be ...

: A Mighty Wind: Comedy. Starring Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest and Michael McKean. Directed by Christopher Guest. (PG-13. 87 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "A Mighty Wind" from ...

If the truth is stranger than fiction, there’d better be some really good reason for fiction to masquerade as a pretty weird slice of truth.And if you didn’t find that last thought confusing, maybe ...

Dying is easy, comedy is hard and somewhere in the middle are Christopher Guest and the ensemble of actors with whom he’s worked for years, who simply live on film. “A Mighty Wind,” a ...

Essayist Roger Rosenblatt takes a nostalgic trip to the movies. I went to see "A Mighty Wind" for the second time, in the fanciful hope that they might have changed the ending. I wanted the movie to ...

Among the many funny and wondrous sounds in A Mighty Wind, Christopher Guest’s sublime, dizzying satire of American folk music and the people who once played it, we get to hear the tender warblings of ...