Lawrence Arabia is heading to this year's New Zealand International Film Festival.
That's not a misprint about a revival of the classic flick.
No, Lawrence Arabia - as in the Kiwi indie rock star - is heading to this year's NZIFF with this band to perform his new score toa silent movie.
The film is Lonesome directed in 1928 by Paul Fejos which the festival describes as a "lavish New York City symphony, set amidst the mass mania of Coney Island during the Fourth of July holiday".
"The prospect of taking on an entire original film score was totally daunting, but equally there wasn't a chance in hell I was going to say no," he says.
Other music-with-movie events at July's festival include the APO playing beneath two Charlie Chaplin classics - Marc Taddei will conduct Chaplin's own score for The Kid (1921) and a new score by Timothy Brock for The Immigrant (1917).
