It's a Whit Stillman movie, a Rufus Wainwright song, the setting of George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia. And oh yeah, the place that Bruce Springsteen: Live in Barcelona, the concert movie that will be up on the big screen at the Bryn Mawr on Wednesday, was filmed in 2002. The date from the Catalan capital was part of The Rising tour with the E Street Band, and was originally shown on MTV in Europe before being released on DVD in 2003.
The one-night-only date at the Bryn Mawr Film Institute is part of a series of high definition screenings of the 2 hour 45 minute concert flick, at old time movie houses across the country, like the Bryn Mawr and the Beach Theater in Cape May. Proceeds go to help underwrite specialty film programming at the theaters. And it's one of many choice music programming options at the Lancaster Avenue theater, which shows operas from La Scala in Milan twice monthly and will be a host theater for the Black Lily Film & Music Festival in February.
As for Live in Barcelona, which I've only seen on the small screen: As I recall, it's a ripping show with a Rising heavy set list, dotted with a few revered oldies such as "She's The One," "Spirit in the Night" and "Incident on 57th Street." And follows the same aging rock star strategy as U2 3D, the Imax concert movie shot in Buenos Aires and other Latin American capitols featuring Bono and the boys that, coincidentally, opens in King of Prussia on Wednesday. That is, film your concert movie in markets outside the U.S. where you have an appreciably younger audience that, despite the language barrier, seems to know all the lyrics to your songs. Thus, you will demonstrate the timeless univerality of your music better than you might if you chose to show celluloid images of beer-bellied baby-boomer American fans singing along to "Thunder Road" or "With or Without You."
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