{"id":550,"date":"2013-03-28T23:48:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-29T03:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/blog\/?page_id=550"},"modified":"2020-12-08T22:41:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T03:41:29","slug":"a-prairie-home-companion","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?page_id=550","title":{"rendered":"A Prairie Home Companion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">HEADLINE: BURY HIM NOT<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">A Prairie Home Companion<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\">Color, PG-13 (strong language), 106 mins plus supplements, Dolby Digital 5.1, letterboxed; $27.95, Street: October 10; NEW LINE<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/?attachment_id=1966\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1966\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/prairie_home-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1966\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/prairie_home-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mediafunhouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/prairie_home.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/a>At 81, Robert Altman is apparently getting just a little tired of doing DVD commentary tracks. The legendary director, who received an honorary career Oscar earlier this year, starts to get weary as he watches this, his touching but steadfastly anti-sentimental rendition of the NPR show created by Garrison Keillor. Altman yawns and apologizes, nothing how much he enjoys the picture, but wonders at one point if the listeners are growing tired of hearing himself and co-commentator Kevin Kline. For his part, Kline is an engaging \u201cinterviewer\u201d \u2014 he even discusses the contagiousness of yawning with Altman \u2014 and in the earliest part of the commentary strikes gold when the asks Altman about the overwhelming presence of mirrors in an important lengthy scene between Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin and Lindsay Lohan. Altman provides a few straight answers to Kline\u2019s questions, but for the most part prefers to joke about how little he does as a director. He seems far more honest about his organizational abilities in the behind-the-scenes featurette that appears here. Scripter-star Keillor, who inexplicably isn\u2019t on the commentary track, gets the lion\u2019s share of attention in the documentary, as he reviews the history of his radio show, discusses the genesis of the film project and is verbally saluted by cast members Streep, Tommy Lee Jones and Virginia Madsen, who all claim to be devoted listeners. Missing from both the documentary and the audio commentary are three rather important topics: the models for the film (Altman\u2019s previous music pics, from <em>Nashville<\/em> to <em>The Company<\/em>), any mention of the film\u2019s subject matter (which Altman clearly outlined in interviews as, simply put, death) and any appearance by a very key player, cinematographer Ed Lachman. The disc\u2019s third bonus, a selection of complete instrumental musical numbers, only serves to spotlight how extremely important his elegantly smooth camerawork is to this wonderfully elegiac film. &#8212;<i>Ed Grant<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEADLINE: BURY HIM NOT A Prairie Home Companion Color, PG-13 (strong language), 106 mins plus supplements, Dolby Digital 5.1, letterboxed; $27.95, Street: October 10; NEW LINE At 81, Robert Altman is apparently getting just a little tired of doing DVD commentary tracks. 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