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Films like A Mighty Wind.

A Mighty Wind (2003) reads as Cosy, steady, gentle comedy / music, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Best in Show (2000) (2000) poster
1. Best in Show2000

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Waiting for Guffman (1996) poster
2. Waiting for Guffman1996

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

For Your Consideration (2006) (2006) poster
3. For Your Consideration2006

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Flirting with Disaster (1996) poster
4. Flirting with Disaster1996

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Dear Diary (1993) poster
5. Dear Diary1993

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Eagle vs Shark (2007) (2007) poster
6. Eagle vs Shark2007

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

Ed Wood (1994) (1994) poster
7. Ed Wood1994

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality; trades toward a cold, bleak undertow.

The Aristocrats (2005) (2005) poster
8. The Aristocrats2005

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the heightened unreality — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Bottle Rocket (1996) poster
9. Bottle Rocket1996

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Damsels in Distress (2012) poster
10. Damsels in Distress2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the intimate, personal stakes — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Step Brothers (2008) (2008) poster
11. Step Brothers2008

Keeps the heightened unreality and the intimate, personal stakes; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

Zoolander (2001) poster
12. Zoolander2001

Keeps the intimate, personal stakes and the running vein of humour; trades toward a patient, unhurried pace.

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