A Mighty Wind (2003) 1080p BluRay HEVC EAC3-SARTRE + Extras

The writing and directing team who created Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era. The Folksmen -- Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean) -- were an earnest folk trio who sang of America's noble past and the challenges of the future; they split up in the early '70s after a failed attempt to go electric. Mitch & Mickey were a duo in both music and life, comprised of Mitch Cohen (Eugene Levy) and Mickey Devlin (Catherine O'Hara). They sang soulful songs of love until the collapse of their relationship sent Mitch into a deep and incapacitating depression. And The Main Street Singers were a nine-piece vocal group -- a "neuftet," as they prefer it -- who offered energetic good-time music, cranking out nearly 30 albums in the course of a decade; their current incarnation, The New Main Street Singers (played by Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, David Alan Blasucci, Steve Pandis, Christopher Moynihan, Paul Dooley and Patrick Sauber) is still on the road. When it is announced that the legendary Irving Steinbloom has died (the character never appears in the film), his son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) decides that the best way to memorialize his father is through music, and with the help of Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard) of Hi-Class Management, they set out to bring The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers back together for a special concert at New York's Town Hall. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer -- who previously teamed up for This Is Spinal Tap -- not only perform together as The Folksmen in A Mighty Wind, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen.

Sample Clip (Download file for actual quality)

https://drive.google.com/open?id=16Dkb0O1odl7WZ_wKXe_bJ6Gr3SesmiEQ




Extras

• All extras include commentary tracks by Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy

• Additional Scenes - Some of these are deleted scenes, while others are extensions of scenes that exist in the film. (480p, 21:59)

- The Press Conference
- Corn Wine
- Killington Hill
- The Good Book Song
- Piccolo
- Backstage Pitch
- North Dakota
- Folksmen Interview
- The Bohners Meet Their Fans
- XYZ
- Wally and the Balloon Guy
- Blues-a-Roo
- The Catheter Song
- When You're Next to Me Rehearsal
- When You're Next to Me Concert Footage

• TV Appearances - Of these early TV appearances by two of Irving Steinbloom's clients, the most interesting are The Folksmen's unsuccessful attempt to "go electric" with "Children of the Sun", and Mitch & Mickey's guest appearance on a TV drama as—what else?—folk singers. (480p, 9:22)

- The Folksmen "In The Groove" (1968) Children Of The Sun
- The Folksmen "Hoot-Nite" (1965) Old Joe's Place
- Mitch & Mickey "Lee Aikman's Folk Hour" (1966) A Kiss At The End Of The Rainbow
- Mitch & Mickey "Dick Beyman—Private Eye" Late 1960S guest appearance

• PBN TV Broadcast of Concert - This is the complete version of the TV concert, uninterrupted by scenes backstage and outside the theater.(480p, 20:42)

- Never Did No Wanderin'
- Potato's in the Paddy Wagon
- Old Joe's Place
- Barnyard Symphony
- A Kiss at the End of the Rainbow
- A Mighty Wind

• Extras - These brief items appeared in the DVD's "easter egg". Both are behind-the-scenes curiosities that Guest explains in his commentary. (480p, 1:20)

- Crew Pounds Hotel Wall with scene reference
- Practice Shoot with Editors

• Theatrical Trailer - The trailer contains some funny footage that did not make the final cut.(720p, 2:26)

• Commentary with Christopher Guest and Eugene Levy - As in their commentary for Best in Show, Guest and Levy are such masters of deadpan delivery that it can be hard to tell when they're joking. From a purely technical standpoint, this commentary provides an informative look at the challenges of directing a concert that is being simultaneously filmed for the movie and taped for the mock TV broadcast. Guest and Levy also discuss how the cast developed key characters, including Levy's Mitch.