This November, Rick Alverson is releasing Entertainment, a film about a wayward traveling comedian. Gregg Turkington, best known as his alter-ego Neil Hamburger, stars as a washed-up comedian (a separate character from Hamburger) who is in the midst of touring the California desert—a sort of vision-quest of dark comedy. Turkington is joined by an impressive supporting cast of Tye Sheridan, John C. Reilly, Michael Cera and Amy Seimetz.
Alverson, Turkington and Secretly Group’s Chris Swanson oversaw the production of the soundtrack. It contains comedy segments from the film as well as songs from a medley of somber alter egos. The song here is Leah Devorah’s post-9/11 cry for peace, “Animals in the Zoo.” In this clip we see Turkington’s comedian literally travel out to the desert, lost in the bleak wasteland, set to the melancholy notes of Devorah’s song.
Entertainment and the soundtrack are out Nov. 13. The soundtrack will have a limited release of 1000 vinyl copies.