TH/Cinema Christopher Guest features: Waiting For Guffman and For Your Consideration @ Thalia Hall

TH/Cinema Christopher Guest Awards Season Send-Ups

7:00pm - Doors

7:30pm - WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (dir. Christopher Guest, 1996, 84 mins, R) 

9:00pm - FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION (dir. Christopher Guest, 2006, 86 mins, PG-13)

$5 advance / $9 at the door

Marginally recognized during the 1980s for his comedic acting and writing contributions to Saturday Night Live and This is Spinal Tap, Christopher Guest gained widespread notoriety for spawning the "mockumentary" genre with a string of feature films in the 90s and 00s, beginning and ending with this pair of spoofs on the desperate plight of stage and screen entertainers.

Guest himself stars as Corky St. Claire, the tenacious thespian leader of the Blaine Community Players tasked with staging a musical production celebrating the Missouri town's 150th anniversary in WAITING FOR GUFFMAN. Touting his near-Broadway experience and promising his cast of amateur townspeople a visit from an elusive New York theater critic, Corky fearlessly works to balance his passion for Blaine's proud history of stool manufacturing and UFO landings with his own unquenchable thirst for the spotlight. 

With the Academy Awards celebrating 90 years of self-congratulations this March, there has never been a better time to revisit FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, Guest's relentless ridiculing of Hollywood and the egomaniacal threat it poses to itself. When the movie-within-the-movie "Home for Purim" generates some online Oscar buzz, the talent is thrown into a tizzy of desperate efforts to garner public favor while attempting to maintain a facade of nonchalance. Will changing the title to "Home for Thanksgiving" earn them a spot on the red carpet? 

Having starred in all of Guest's staple mockumentaries, Catherine O'Hara was ironically rumored to be an Oscar contender for her role in the latter but was never nominated. Other actors lending their improvisational brilliance to both movies include Eugene Levy, Parker Posey, Bob Balaban and Fred Willard. 

TH/Cinema makes proud use of Thalia Hall's state-of-the-art sound and digital projection equipment with a full bar, candy, popcorn and plenty of seating available.