Showing: 20 July 2025 until 21 July 2025
Blaine, Missouri, may be small, but Corky St. Clair (Christopher Guest) always dreams big. In anticipation of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, QFT revisits some of Guest's iconic work. Screening in 35mm.
Determined to get back to the bright lights of “off-off-off-off-Broadway,” he casts a ragtag group of amateur actors in Red, White & Blaine, a musical celebration of the burg’s 150th anniversary — and when word gets out that New York talent scout Mort Guffman will be in the audience, Corky’s hopes of stardom just might come true.
Shot in 29 days in a small suburb near Austin with one Super 16 camera and no script, director-star Guest’s cult-hit mockumentary was created entirely in collaboration with a superstar cast of improvisational talents, including Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Bob Balaban, Parker Posey and Catherine O’Hara.
"Waiting for Guffman does for regional theater what This is Spinal Tap did for rock 'n' roll" New York Daily News
Mostly improvised, Christopher Guest's Best in Show is full of quotables, as the dirty politics of the dog show circuit comically play out. In anticipation of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, QFT revisits some of Guest's iconic work. Screening in 35mm.
Director Christopher Guest reunites the team from Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman to tell the story of ’60s-era folk musicians who reunite for a memorial concert in New York City. In anticipation of Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, QFT revisits some of Guest's iconic work. Screening in 35mm.