Much Ado About Puffin.....

I'm booking a ticket for something else tomorrow but, as it's a very international film, I thought I'd mention it. I figure it may appeal to a few of you out there in "everywhere else" land. I'm looking forward to one of my first "film festival" moments where the director of the film gets to blurb a few words before curtain up.




SCREAMING MASTERPIECE (12A)
Gargandi Snillol

An inspirational look at Iceland’s passion for music and how their unique combination of long dark nights, alcohol, a sense of community and self-belief is producing some of the most important and influential musicians in the world. From a population no bigger than Newcastle's, Iceland has given us the ever-brilliant Björk, band-on-the-international-rise Sigur Rós and a thriving jazz, folk, rock and classical music scene.

With lots of footage of live gigs punctuated with informal and informed interviews with everyone from Bjork to the country's head pagan (Iceland is one of two countries that was not touched by Christianity) this film is the perfect opportunity to see some of the leading lights of modern music at their most comfortable.

MEET THE DIRECTOR!
On Saturday 19th November director Ari Alexander Ergis Magnussen will introduce his revealing documentary.

Director: Ari Alexander Ergis Magnusson / Music Documentary
English / 87 minutes / Iceland, Denmark and Netherlands 2005