Via CNN via Anne Thompson comes the full lineup for The Ballerina Ballroom Cinema of Dreams, the film festival thrown by recent Oscar winner Tilda Swinton and guest programmed by her and Joel Coen, starting this Friday in “Nairn in the North East of Scotland, a seaside town where Chaplin used to holiday and which has a balmy microclimate and vistas across the Moray Firth to the Black Isle, Cromarty and Sutherland.”

If you think that’s a lot to swallow, look at the line-up. Busby Berkeley’s Dames! Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant! Stuff by David Lynch and Roman Polanski, world premieres, an entire day devoted to singing! And, a mandate that the audience make a lot of noise at the end of each film. From the Ballerina website’s News page:

Our first thoughts were kazoos. Or balloons that we could burst at the end. But then our friend Phoebe suggested jam jars 1/4 full of dried peas, to rattle. We like this idea a lot. So, as well as your passion, humour, good will and cake, could you bring a jam jar of peas to rattle, or some other kind of noise-making instrument? Also if you have any of those glowy, torchy things that you get at Hogmanay or dodgy stadium concerts, they could be waved at the end of movies (though how that would work after The Bill Douglas Trilogy takes some imagining).

Okay, yes — all this, plus Swinton’s insistence that the audience sit on bean bag chairs and eat “home-made cakes and fish finger sandwiches,” might be just a little too cute for some of us cynical city folk. But the program certainly has enough grit to counterbalance the twee– in Petra Von Kant alone, if nowhere else. And at least attendees can probably be pretty damn sure that it’s going to be a Blackberry-free zone. How much are last minute fares to the outlands of Scotland going for nowadays?