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	A Prairie Home Companion :: Film Review :: ABC Adelaide
		A Prairie Home Companion is a curious beast, but it has remained a lively and much-loved part of the American radio landscape, and now Keillor has joined forces with one of his country’s most accomplished and idiosyncratic filmmakers, Robert Altman, to bring the project to the cinema.
		The latter is the Altman film that most closely resembles A Prairie Home Companion in structure; Nashville brought one of the director’s trademark weighty casts to work on a portrait of America, examining that country through its cult of celebrity and its country and western music.
		A Prairie Home Companion is a far more gentle and comic creation than 1975’s Nashville, though it shares the earlier film’s fascination with the enduringly popular country and western music that remains a Midwestern staple.
	www.abc.net.au /cgi-bin/common/printfriendly.pl?http://www.abc.net.au/adelaide/stories/s1756624.htm (583 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: A Prairie Home Companion
		The opening shot of A Prairie Home Companion evokes creation: a radio tower picks up static and loads of crisscrossing transmissions, and as the signals become clearer the stars in the sky begin to light up.
		Prairie Home Companion, made by a master 81 years young with a borrowed ticker beating in his chest, is a film that grapples with death.
		Prairie Home Companion's highlight is a scene about reconstruction: a duct tape commercial Keillor must deliver on the air without a script.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=2241 (475 words)

	Prairie Home Companion, A - Scathing Reviews for Bitchy People
		Companion lacks the scope of Altman’s big-canvas films like Nashville — which gave a fair impression of that city’s ethos in the period immediately after Watergate — or Short Cuts — which captured both a cross-section of life in Los Angeles and of humanity more generally.
		A Prairie Home Companion may turn out to be his last film and, while I hope he’s got time for another dozen or so, it wouldn’t be a bad note to go out on.
		As a PHC listener I got more of the inside jokes, and perhaps was more touched by the film than a non-PHC listener would have been, but even if you'd never heard of PHC before now I still think you would be able to enjoy the film.
	www.pajiba.com /prairie-home-companion-a.htm (5468 words)

	Prairie Home Companion, A
		Companion is Minnesota-centric is expected and the lyrics of many of the songs have been changed to honor this most dominant star of the show.
		A Prairie Home Companion, film, or radio show, offers insight on the role of radio in American media history and culture, and by extension in many cultures of the world still without access to television for news and entertainment.
		It was about a young mother who, left with her two children in a sod hut on the prairie during a terrible blizzard while her husband went to get food, struggled with the isolation, and survived.
	journals.aol.com /rosepacatte/MyMovies/entries/2006/06/08/.../668 (914 words)

	You Know, For Film.: Robert Altman's A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Home Companion" as a down-home musical variety show complete with gospel and country-western acts.
		A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION even attempts to deal with more spiritual issues, but ultimately that acts as a buzzkill (and thankfully doesn't really develop much throughout the film).
		However, when A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION ends with the icons of Americana assembled in a diner talking about the good 'ol days and suddenly an angel appears, it is a fond farewell and send off to a time not-so-long-ago-but-easily-forgotten.
	jasonjackowski.blogspot.com /2006/01/robert-altmans-prairie-home-companion.html (978 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion reviewed. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine
		Where All the Actors Are Above AverageGarrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.
		A Prairie Home Companion features in-jokes and recurring characters from the radio show—if you think Guy Noir is the name of a perfume, expect to be confused by bursts of audience applause.
		In the opening scene, we learn that the family-owned radio station that broadcasts A Prairie Home has been bought by a Texas Christian conglomerate, and we witness the behind-the-scenes mischief of the show's last performance.
	www.slate.com /id/2143310 (990 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is produced by Prairie Home Productions and distributed by American Public Media, and is most often heard on public radio stations in the United States.
		Music is a strong feature of the program; the show is a significant outlet for American folk music of many genres, especially country, bluegrass, blues and gospel, but the show also has guest performers from a wide variety of other styles of music including classical and opera and from a number of different countries.
		At the beginning of A Prairie Home Companion's June 5, 2004 show (which was broadcast from New Hampshire), Keillor announced that former U.S. President Ronald Reagan had died.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Prairie_Home_Companion (1525 words)

	Reviews: A Prairie Home Companion - Christianity Today Movies
		Altman and most of the cast have claimed in interviews that A Prairie Home Companion is essentially a movie about death, whereas Keillor insists that any death in the movie is "comic death" and is not the film's overriding theme.
		In the movie, the talented cast of A Prairie Home Companion are all about to lose their jobs because of a parent company that is indifferent to the art and community they create.
		A Prairie Home Companion is rated PG-13 for "risqué humor," an appropriate caution in light of the funny but definitely raunchy material performed by singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty.
	www.christianitytoday.com /movies/reviews/2006/prairiehome.html (2283 words)

	'A Prairie Home Companion' - MOVIE REVIEW - Los Angeles Times - calendarlive.com (Site not responding. Last check: )
		But that's what she is — the celestial continuation of a longtime "Prairie Home" listener who laughed at a joke, lost control of her car and died, come to escort an elderly cast member to the Lord.
		Of all popular entertainment programs, surely "A Prairie Home Companion" has the least to fear from the nipple-censoring fundies, even if it is a bastion of Minnesotan liberalism.
		But the "Prairie Home Companion" of the movie is hardly the middlebrow juggernaut known to listeners.
	calendarlive.com /movies/reviews/cl-et-prairie9jun09,0,945269.story?... (899 words)

	indieWIRE: "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Inconvenient Truth" Spark Specialty BOT
		Together, "An Inconvenient Truth" and "A Prairie Home Companion" were impressive in attracting large audiences to theaters - especially the elusive "sophisticated" adult audience, which responded to both as event films.
		But for the movie, Keillor and Altman pretended "Prairie Home" really is one of those old-style shows.
		Lost in the excitement over "Inconvenient Truth" and "Prairie Home Companion" was Miramax Film's well-reviewed documentary about a Seattle high school's girl's basketball team, "Heart of the Game." Opening at three theaters in New York and L.A., it averaged but $3,750 and finished 11th on the iWBOT.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/2006/06/a_prairie_home.html (1553 words)

	Prairie Home Companion, A (2006) **** Movie reviews by Dr. Edwin Jahiel.
		The plot is basically simple: PHC has been running for many years at the Fitzgerald Theatre (named after F.Scott Fitzgerald) in St. Paul, Minnesota.
		The plot, such as it is, consists primarily of the reactions of G.K. (Garrison Keillor), the central figure (director of the group, performer, storyteller you name it) and the other members of the outfit, to the realization that this performance will be their last one.
		A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION is not a genre film, not a musical in the Hollywood tradition, not a simple tale about the triumph of the will, etc., but a surprising celebration of life and art.
	www.prairienet.org /ejahiel/prairie_home_companion.htm (841 words)

	Prairie Home Companion, A (2006): Reviews
		Altman and Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion is fittingly both a celebration and a winning example of the joys of collaboration.
		For a film about death and endings, A Prairie Home Companion is a cracking good time - a warm, golden bauble within which to shelter, like the radio show that inspired it, from the misery and ennui that engulf us in and out of the multiplex.
		A Prairie Home Companion tries to embrace the spirit of that longtime radio series but suffocates the very qualities that make the original show so special in the first place.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/prairiehomecompanion (1347 words)

	Movie Review part deux: A Prairie Home Companion \| texasgigs.com
		On a rainy Saturday night in St. Paul, Minn., fans file into the Fitzgerald Theater to see "A Prairie Home Companion," a staple of radio station WLT, not knowing that WLT has been sold to a Texas conglomerate and that tonight's show will be the last.
		All participate in what happens to be the last-ever airing of A Prairie Home Companion, the theatre in which the radio program takes place having been purchased by a company led by Axeman (Tommy Lee Jones).
		Streep and Tomlin, as they showed in their priceless presentation of an Honorary Oscar to Altman at this year’s Academy Awards, are right at home as sisters who often seem to share one brain (and that’s meant as a compliment).
	www.texasgigs.com /news/2006/jun/11/movie-review-i-prairie-home-companioni (658 words)

	Prairie Home Companion Tickets - Prairie Home Companion Tickets - Prairie Home Companion Schedule
		The theater was boarded-up and expected to be demolished, but Prairie Home Companion breathed new life into the capitol city landmark.
		The Prairie Home Companion show features a variety of monologues, comical bits, musical acts and great story-telling from Keillor, claiming to be a report from Keillor's fictitious hometown of Lake Wobegon, "the little town that time forgot and the decades cannot improve.
		Because the Hollywood film has helped A Prairie Home Companion turn into even more of an international success, tickets for A Prairie Home Companion are only becoming harder to come by.
	www.ticketkingonline.com /tickets/praire-home-companion-tickets.htm (844 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion - Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
		It could be the blueprint for "A Prairie Home Companion," a film that strives for ambience but never quite transcends its cool presentation, stick-figure characters and broadly symbolic posturing.
		Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion," which originates from St. Paul, Minn., premiered July 6, 1974.
		"A Prairie Home Companion" is the first-produced feature film scripted by 62-year-old Garrison (Gary Edward) Keillor and the first in which he has appeared on camera.
	pittsburghlive.com /x/.../living/movies/reviews/s_457226.html (461 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion (2006) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Trivia: The Fitzgerald Theatre is in downtown St. Paul and is the real home of the radio show "A Prairie Home Companion".
		Soon we are in the theater, preparing for the live performance of the radio program.
		Note: I have attended two APHC performances in the Fitzgerald, and have eaten in Mickey's Diner.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0420087 (565 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion Trailer, Reviews and Schedule for A Prairie Home Companion \| TVGuide.com
		It's Saturday night in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the Fitzgerald Theater is about to host local station WLT's regular broadcast of the venerable variety hour "A Prairie Home Companion," a retro mix of music,...
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		A Prairie Home Companion Movie Review, Pictures, Cast, News and More at Starpulse.com.
	www.tvguide.com /movies/prairie-home-companion/280223 (189 words)

	'A Prairie Home Companion' - The Deadbolt
		So when Garrison Keillor came along with a script for turning his radio show into a movie, A Prairie Home Companion was born.
		The situation gets even more surreal when the live radio show within the movie is based on, but not exactly, an actual successful program with the host of that real world program playing a loose variation on himself.
		They seem like a perfect match and there's not a moment in A Prairie Home Companion where it feels any member of the team - from Robert Altman's direction to Garrison Keillor's writing to the ensemble's acting - aren't doing exactly what they should be.
	www.thedeadbolt.com /news/111196/prairiehomecompanion.php (459 words)

	ABC News: 'Prairie Home Companion' to Stay in Minn. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" won't be leaving its St. Paul home _ permanently _ after all.
		MINNEAPOLIS Dec 30, 2005 (AP)— Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion" won't be permanently leaving its St. Paul home after all.
		"Prairie Home" started broadcasting from the Fitzgerald, then known as the World, in 1978.
	abcnews.go.com /Entertainment/wireStory?id=1455847&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (350 words)

	Premiere Magazine - A Prairie Home Companion
		Needless to say, he was not.) Keillor and Prairie Home are one thing; now add American cinema colossus Robert Altman to the mix and you’ve got.
		PHC the movie centers around the putative last broadcast of the titular radio show (whaddya know, big business is gonna raze the theater it broadcasts from), which its host—Keillor, playing a version of himself—is treating with a typically midwestern-of-Scandinavian-stock stoicism.
		That paranoid, bitter film, a messy olio of contempt and compassion, was a picture very much of its time; PHC is a celebration of a time and place that has never existed, except in the imaginations of its creators and its audience.
	www.premiere.com /article.asp?section_id=2&article_id=2872 (428 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion
		About A Prairie Home Companion he said, "I think fans of thw show will love it." He went on to say that he feels that there is a large potential audience of older people who do not usually go to the movies, because they don't like what is being offered.
		This is sound thinking, because the Prairie Home Companion is, after all, a Public Radio show, and Public Radio does not have much audience share.
		As a rule A Prairie Home Companion is produced and broadcast from Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minnesota.
	hugereviews.com /Movies/P/prairie_home_companion.htm (1226 words)

	WFYI Indianapolis - PRI Favorites - A Prairie Home Companion
		And on July 6, 1974, Keillor hosted the first live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion at the Janet Wallace Auditorium at Macalester College, Saint Paul.
		Today, A Prairie Home Companion is heard by nearly 5 million U.S. listeners each week on over 511 public radio stations, and is heard abroad on America One and the Armed Forces Networks In Europe and the Far East.
		A Prairie Home Companion is produced by Prairie Home Productions, presented by Minnesota Public Radio and distributed nationwide by Public Radio International.
	www.wfyi.org /radioPrairie.asp (430 words)

	89.3 KPCC \| Programs \| A Prairie Home Companion
		A Prairie Home Companion is now in its 30th year of production.
		Currently in its 32nd season, the radio version of A Prairie Home Companion has made Minnesota's way of life and the fictional small town of Lake Wobegon part of American popular culture.
		For tickets to this special A Prairie Home Companion, go to http://www.hollywoodbowl.com or call Ticketmaster at 213-480-3232.
	www.scpr.org /programs/aprairiehomecompanion (327 words)

	IGN: A Prairie Home Companion Review
		Others may find the film to be a mixed bag, with his trademark wandering camera seemingly floating through the various settings and looking for the most intriguing action.
		Prairie's music could outperform the movie, a phenomena that could possibly be along the lines of the massively successful O Brother, Where Are Thou Soundtrack.
		Prairie has more than its share of knowing humor and pokes at the entertainment and corporate industry.
	movies.ign.com /articles/711/711727p1.html (778 words)

	A Prairie Home Companion (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A Prairie Home Companion (previously known as The Last Broadcast) is a 2006 ensemble comedy film elegy directed by Robert Altman, his final film released just five months before his death
		The DVD of A Prairie Home Companion was released October 10, 2006.
		The call letters of the radio station where the show aired, WLT ("With Lettuce and Tomatoes"), were used previously by Keillor in his novel WLT: A Radio Romance, and the station's owners, the Soderbergh brothers, are referred to in the dialogue.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/A_Prairie_Home_Companion_(film) (1165 words)

	Amazon.com: A Prairie Home Companion: Movie Showtimes: Robert Altman,Woody Harrelson,Tommy Lee Jones,Garrison ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I wish I'd said this: A Prairie Home Companion is a lovely film about death, and with some great bad jokes.
		I've attended a broadcast of "Prairie Home Companion" and found it curiously distant and unengaging, my presence and that of the rest of the audience serving as props, or a bit of window dressing, for the purpose of establishing the show's credibility for a home audience.
		As a movie "A Prairie Home Companion" is at once more lively, colorful and honest than it is as a variety show.
	www.amazon.com /A-Prairie-Home-Companion/dp/B00005JP30 (2893 words)

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