Peter Dinklage should have been somewhere in Europe this week, shooting a Hunger Games prequel called The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Instead, though, he remained in New York to support his friend, director Sacha Gervasi, at a Tuesday screening of Gervasi's 2008 cult documentary, Anvil!, at a downtown arthouse called the Angelika (where the picture had run for four months straight upon its original release).
Because Anvil!—or, to give it its full, Spinal-Tappy title, Anvil! The Story of Anvil—is back. Or at least will be on September 27, for a nationwide, one-night-only rerun at some 200 theaters across the country. Not only that, but Anvil itself—the hapless, semi-tragic Canadian metal band at the heart of this rousing and unexpectedly heartwarming film—will be returning to the road soon in support of Impact Is Imminent, the group's nineteenth album in a 40-year career of nonstop non-hits.
