Waiting for Guffman: funny mockumentary from the makers of Best in Show and Spinal Tap. The residents of Blaine, MO put on a musical celebrating their town's sesquicentennial, with hopes of getting to Broadway. Christopher Guest is brilliant as usual, playing a theater director whose talent and artistic taste is....well, unusual. Eugene Levy is deadpan hilarious as the likeable dork he always seems to play. Great improvisation all around.
Sanjuro: The outstanding sequel to Kurosawa's Yojimbo. I don't know why so many people say this is a relatively weak film for him, as Mifune's "man with no name" samurai always entertains and I found the story more suspenseful than most of K's other work. Not a whole lot of detailed action sequences....maybe that's why it's not held in as high esteem.
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