Coorabell Hall Film Club
Wednesday 5 November

BEST IN SHOW

DOGS WELCOME!!
DRESS THEM FOR THE BEST DRESSED DOG PARADE
PRIZES TO BE WON!!

Food & drinks (Licensed) from 6.00PM
Movie starts at 7.30PM

BEST IN SHOW (2000)
Best in Show - The dog-show mockumentary from the one-time Spinal Tap guitarist is a genuine delight.
That maestro of the Great American Mockumentary, Christopher Guest (Nigel Tufnel in This is Spinal Tap), has done it again. This is a little gem of a comedy, a film candidly and professionally structured around the business of getting real laughs with real gags. Using the genre's now richly matured techniques -- talking-head interviews interspersed with pseudo- vérité footage of the principals -- director and co-writer Guest tells the story of the "Mayflower Dog Show", following the fraught lives of the key competitors and their tremulous, talented pooches.
As in Spinal Tap, Guest demonstrates that in his own unshowy way, he is a very accomplished comic actor, never more so than in the heartbreakingly earnest way he jogs around the arena with his dog Hubert when asked to perform a circuit by the judge -- his jacket and shirt jiggling in time to the great loose folds of Hubert's glossy coat. The dogs themselves, as the film goes on, seem to be possessed of their own distinctively Keaton-ish flair for deadpan silent comedy.
They say the owner comes to look like his dog; this is a mockumentary which comes to resemble a sleek fox terrier, a nimble, agile little film: quick-witted, intelligent, responsive to the director's whistles and beckonings. Wherever the film's collar is, it deserves to have a large rosette pinned on it.