John Kenneth Muir - This Is Spinal Tap
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As always, my gratitude begins with June Clark, an agent of uncommon valor and dedication, and a buddy to boot. My most humble thanks also go to the cast and crew of This Is Spinal Tap but especially to Harry Shearer, June Chadwick, Fred Willard, director of photography Peter Smokler, actress Gloria Gifford, and film editor Kent Beyda, all of whom I spoke with in 2004 and 2005.
And lastly, my hat is off to Joe Franklinthe King of Nostalgia! Thanks for helping out, Joe.
Patrick Douglas, Mysteries of This Is Spinal Tap Finally Decoded, Fort Collins Coloradoan, May 13, 2005, 12E.
Entertainment Weekly, The 100 Funniest Movies on Video: Mirth of a Nation, October 16, 1992, 16.
Pamela McClintock, Boyz, Alien, Spinal Tapped for Film Registry (U.S. Library of Congress National Film Registry), Daily Variety, December 18, 2002, 4-5.
McClintock, Boyz, Alien, Spinal Tapped for Film Registry, 4-5.
Richard Corliss, Cinema: Cold Metal, Time, March 5, 1984, 86.
John Leland, The Heavy Metal Joke Not Everyone Got, The New York Times. September 3, 2000, 22.
Archer Winsten, The New York Post, March 2, 1984, 19.
Michael Blowen, Rob Reiner Has the Last Laugh, The Boston Globe, May 3, 1984, Calendar, 1.
Fred Phillips, After 20 Years, Spinal Tap Still Rocks, The Monroe News-Star, July 8, 2004, 9d.
Michael Blowen, Exclusive!!! Spinal Tap Debunks Rockumentary! The Boston Globe, July 5, 1984, Calendar, 2 of 4.
James Parker, Rockumentary 101: This Is Spinal Tap Gave Us the Term Rockumentary in 1984, and Then Almost Killed the Genre with Its Lethal Satire. Now a New Film Proves What a Rockumentary Can Doand Its Less Spinal Tap Than Let It Be, The Boston Globe, August 22, 2004, F2.
Matthew Gilbert, Mockumentaries Show Reality for What It Is, The Boston Globe, February 14, 2001, Home, Arts and Entertainment Section, http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2010/02/14/mockumentary_as_sitcome_is_an_art_complementary_to_televisions_format/.
Louis B. Hobson, Guest Shots, Edmonston Sun, October 10, 2000.
John Kenneth Muir, Best in Show: The Films of Christopher Guest and Company (New York: Applause Theatre and Film Books, 2004).
Richard Meran Bersam, Non-Fiction Film: A Critical History (Bloomington, IN: Clarke, Irwin and Company, Ltd., 1973), 303.
Bersam, Non-Fiction Film, 2-4.
John Kenneth Muir, The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2007), 115.
Josh Goldfein, Band of Outsidersm The Village Voice. April 10-16, 2002.
Karl French, This Is Spinal Tap: The Official Companion (London and New York: Bloomsbury, 2000), 206.
Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, and Harry Shearer, Spinal Tap (Los Angeles: Spinal Tap Productions, 1982), 5.
Guest, McKean, Reiner, Shearer, Spinal Tap, 25.
Guest, McKean, Reiner, Shearer, Spinal Tap, 37.
Frank N. Magill, ed., Magills Cinema Annual, 1985: A Survey of 1984 Films (New York: Salem Press, 1985), 487.
Bill Cosford,Spinal Tap Slices up Rock, The Miami Herald, April 27, 1984, 1D.
Steve Morse, Spinal Tap Socks It to Rock, The Boston Globe, March 30, 1984, Section Arts/Films.
Gene Triplett, Mockumentary May Tap Too Closely to Heart of Rock n Roll to Be Funny, The Daily Oklahoman. May 25, 1984, Section NEWS.
Creating Spinal Tap, The New York Times, June 20, 2004, Section 7, Column 4, Book Review Desk, 4.
Joe Baltake, Putting on the Rockers, Philadelphia Daily News, May 7, 1984, 35.
Wayne Robins, Newsday. March 2, 1984, II,:6.
The Kings of Cult Classics, Chicago Tribune, November 1, 2005, 29.
Parody Gained Cult Status, The Canberra Times, August 7, 2005, A22.
Barry Keith Grant and Jeanette Sloniowski, eds., Documenting the Documentary: Close Readings of Documentary Film and Video (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1998), 319327.
David Ansen, Newsweek, March 5, 1984, 81.
Craig D. Lindsey, Shearer Goes for Real Laughs, The News and Observer, April 2, 2004, WUP5.
Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984-1988 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988), 11.
Brian Fitzpatrick, Music Review: Spinal Tap Back from the Dead (CD/DVD), Blogcritics , June 23, 2009, http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-spinal-tap-back-from/.
Gary Arnold, Spinal Chords, The Washington Post , April 13, 1984, B1.
John Kenneth Muir, The Rock and Roll Film Encyclopedia (New York: Applause Theatre and Cinema Books, 2007), 275.
Tasha Robinson, Interview with Harry Shearer, The Onion AV Club 9 (15) (April 23, 2003).
Stephen Rea, Christopher Guest: From Spinal Tap to Best in Show , Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service , October 6, 2000, K438.
The greatest rock n roll band in the world is the Rolling Stones, at least according to Gimme Shelter (1970).
But Spinal Tap is still the loudest....
A full quarter-century after its genesis, Rob Reiners remarkable silver screen directorial debut, This Is Spinal Tap , remains an inescapable, nay insurmountable bump on the American pop culture highway.
This eighty-two-minute music-themed comedy from the mid-1980s yet shines, not only as an authentic Generation X touchstone but also as the undeniable gold standard of the cinematic format termed the mockumentary, or what Tap coarchitect Christopher Guest often dubs a documentary-style comedy.
What this description means is that This Is Spinal Tap poses as an authentic documentary, and is composed and edited in the cinema verit school down to the inclusion of archival footage in the B-roll (supplemental footage intercut with the main shots during interviews), confessional one-on-one interviews, and the sense that everything is unfolding before the camera as live. But dont be fooled. Every moment in the film is purely fictional, made up from whole cloth: a mock (meaning aped or simulated) reality.
Rock n roll movies such as Mark Wahlbergs Rock Star (2002); parodies of the music industry including the Chris Rock vehicle CB-4 (1993); mock rockumentaries like the Canadian FUBAR (2002); and real documentaries such as Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) attempt to recapture Spinal Taps revolutionary, inspired alchemyat least after a fashionbut somehow, they never quite pull it off.
As movie critic Patrick Douglas noted in May 2005, the Reagan-era collaboration between comedian-actors Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Rob Reiner, and Harry Shearer is likely to remain forever the be-all and end-all of rock movies. Consequently, This Is Spinal Taps accolades are nearly too numerous to catalog. But heck, lets give it a whirl.
In 1992, Entertainment Weekly ranked the Rob Reiner film as the third funniest in cinema history. It placed behind Airplane! (1980) and Some Like It Hot (1959) and nosed ahead of Woody Allens Academy Award winner Annie Hall (1977). The magazine wrote: First time director Rob Reiners knowing mockumentary of a band of heavy-metal bozos gets everything righteven tiny details like the contents of a backstage deli tray. That the songs... are this clever and genuine bespeaks the creators grasp of the essential ingredient for classic satire: a deep affection for the subject of ridicule
In 2002, the National Film Registry in the Library of Congress officially added This Is Spinal Tap to its rolls, honoring the production as one of the select few titles in a hundred years of moviesalongside such luminaries as From Here to Eternity (1953), In the Heat of the Night (1967), and Alien (1979)to boast a critical trifecta: aesthetic, cultural, and historical significance.
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