Another film for gurdy spotters is The Dualists [Dir; Ridley Scott]. This too features an example of someone being able to play. Then of course there is my contribution to the genre, Station Jim [ BBC films 2000], you will find me behind the fire juggler in the fairground title sequence. A few years earlier Nigel Eaton featured in Harnessing Peacocks. Then there is the film version of Jane Austin's Mansfield park from the 1990's. Anymore film trivia anyone? Philip
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Do you know Heart of Glass / Herz aus Glas by Werner Herzog? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Glass_%28film%29 Santa brought me 2 dvd-boxes loaded with films by Werner Herzog (with and without Klaus Kinski). Herzog is my all-time favorite director. German art films from 1970's! In this very special film a h-g is played in a bierstube for some three minutes. The player obviously knows what he does and the instrument sounds like one you could imagine to be played in a late 18th/early 19th century Bavarian bierstube. I mean that you can hear that the player is familiar with this instrument both technically and musically. Quite the contrary than in most cases of h-gs in films. You can see this scene with hg quite exactly 1 hour from the beginning -but all the film is well worth seeing. Esa Mäkinen Finland Philip G Martin aka Drohne www.drohne.co.uk
