Warner Home Video to release A Mighty Wind!

[Julian K]

Warner Home Video will release A Mighty Wind on June the 14th!

The mockumentary, which does to folk music what Spinal Tap did to rock music, will be available exclusively from HMV.

The disc will contain an audio commentary, additional scenes with optional commentary, the full live TV broadcast of the concert, hilarious TV appearances from the bands, Easter Eggs, a soundtrack promo and theatrical trailer.

The film will be presented in 2.35:1 anamorphic format, with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. RRP is £15.99.

More details and sleeve image at

Zeta Minor (http://www.zetaminor.com/whatsnew.htm)

[Richie]

exclusively from HMV

OH FFS! :mad:
R1 can be had for less than 2/3 of that price - WHAT is it with these 'exclusive' releases?!

[Julian K]

WHAT is it with these 'exclusive' releases?!

It's especially ironic, in the light of this row. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3561603.stm)

[Richie]

indeed! What hypocritical bunch of merchant bankers. :mad:

[DeadKenny]

Given the thread title I thought this was going to be about Blazing Saddles :nuts:.

[goodfella66]

I remember picking up the region 1 version of this months ago from CDWOW for about £7-8! It's been slow coming out in this country.

[Mike]

Watched this tonight and I think it's the most charming comedy I've seen for ages. Brilliantly accurate music, some pitch-perfect comic performances and some incredible one liners - many of them from the great Fred Willard who was so good in "Best In Show". Maybe it's my age, but "A Kiss At The End of the Rainbow" really moved me during the final performance and the whole Mitch and Mickey storyline had emotional resonances that I really didn't expect.

[AndyWilson]

Must be your age Mike - I first saw it on a flight back in Dec and was similarly moved...

...luckily a jab of the corner of the inflight magazine into my eye hid my embarassment...

I can't guarantee that anyone who likes Spinal Tap would like this - it's a much more subtle piece that resists its predecessor's obvious potshots at easy targets - but personally I prefer it for those very reasons. It would have been so easy to make a "Folk Spinal Tap" that concentrated on the strange beards and fingers in ears (assuming they do that in the USA?) - to make a movie that has empathy with its targets is much more difficult.