Event
The Films Of Saint Etienne
I've Been Trying To Tell You Premiere
Sep 3, 2021

Format
Film

Venue
BFI Southbank, London, England

Presenter
Heavenly Films
BFI

Line Up
2:30 This Is Tomorrow - Intro Bob Stanley, Paul Kelly (NFT2)
6:30 I've Been Trying To Tell You - Q&A Alasdair McLellan, Bob and Sarah (NFT1)
9:00 I've Been Trying To Tell You - Q&A Alasdair McLellan, Pete and Sarah (NFT1)

DJs
None Identified

Memorabilia (see below)
E-Ticket
Program Notes

Notes
Do you look back on the optimism of the 1997-2001 era as a lost golden age, or do you see it as a period of naivety, delusion and folly? There's a lot of nostalgia for the nineties at the moment, especially from people too young to remember it who see the decade as a simpler, pre-internet time. Modern nostalgia often draws on corporate American-90s mall culture, but what about British culture? With I've Been Trying To Tell You - made to accompany the Saint Etienne album of the same name - director Alasdair McLellan evokes the era through the fog of memory. The resulting film, shot in locations from Grangemouth to Portmeirion to Southampton, is both beautiful and enveloping.