The Rewatch Party 250 - A Mighty Wind (2003)

About this episode

The episode humorously explores the film 'A Mighty Wind' while delving into various tangents about folk music and the characters within the movie.

There’s wind, there’s confusion, there’s whatever the hell "blowing to my mighty wind" was supposed to mean. Take a tour with us through construction site asbestos anxiety, chicken wing philosophy, and a string of musical puns that should legally qualify as a workplace hazard. By the time anyone remembers we’re here to talk about a movie, we’ve already emotionally prepared ourselves for death via Google notification. Of course we're here to talk about A Mighty Wind, which is to say we immediately derail into Christopher Guest lore, Second City reverence, and the realization that folk music has apparently existed since cavemen discovered obelisks and started strumming. We latch onto Irving Steinbloom’s legacy as an excuse to meet the parade of deeply strange humans in this movie: painfully awkward folk trios, aggressively wholesome cult-adjacent choir people, and Mitch, who has been chemically sanded down into a human screensaver. The music is legitimately good, which feels unfair given how much of this is people making eye contact while saying the worst possible thing. We explore porn backstories, model train lore, folk band beefs, and a superhero whose powers should not be…

Topics covered

• comedy
• film review
• folk music
• musical puns
• awkwardness
• Christopher Guest

Keywords

• A Mighty Wind
• folk music
• comedy
• musical puns
• Christopher Guest
• Second City
• Catherine O’Hara

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Second City

Books & works: A Mighty Wind

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