I just can't help being a deadhead at heart. I don't suppose it will make general release over here so I'm looking forward to the DVD. I just hope it's available in Region 2 as I don't have a multi region player. If it's only region 1 I may have to consider an upgrade!
Gavin Poolman remembers using the film cans containing the only existing work prints of "Festival Express" for hockey goals. His parents were divorced, and his father, who was the original producer of the film, moved often. Young Poolman never could understand why his father insisted on lugging around this stupid collection of heavy film canisters. At one point, he dragged the cans out of the garage and stacked them in the street to serve as goalposts.
But in the mid-'90s, after he grew up and went into the film business in London, Poolman was contacted by a film researcher from Canada who was trying to find the footage, and Poolman knew exactly where to look.
"He'd found the negatives to this stuff," Poolman said. "Apparently he'd been looking for it for years."
