RESTORED SCREEN CLASSICS TO BE RE-RELEASED

THE BRITISH Film Institute (BFI) and Andersen Consulting, a leading global management and technology consultancy, have announced a substantial, two-year project to restore eight classic films.
The project will result in some of movie history’s best-loved classics being cleaned, preserved and re-released in their original format. Each film will have a new premiere before being re-released to cinemas UK-Wide for local audiences. The four classics set for revival in the project's first year include, ‘Some Like It Hot’, ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, ‘Alfie’ and ‘Don’t Look Now’.
Sponsorship from Andersen Consulting has allowed the BFI to create brand new prints of a diverse slate of features, which are not presently available in the BFI’s collections.
Jon Teckman, Director of BFI said: “Film deteriorates naturally over time, especially if heavily used. There are no useable copies of any of these films in our collections so we cannot offer them to cinema-goers anywhere. Further more we have found that these titles are regularly requested by cinema-goers at the BFI National Film Theatre, as well as screen bookers and festival programmers around the world.”
Ian Watmore, UK Managing Partner, Andersen Consulting said: “In recent years Andersen Consulting has become involved in a number of diverse arts, sponsorship programmes. And with film more popular than ever in the UK today, we are delighted to be associated with an industry which has innovation creativity and technology at its core.”
‘Some Like It Hot’ is the first film to be re-released and will b re-premiered in London with a gala screening at the Odeon West End on October 5 and at selected cinemas from October 20.
A further four films are to be chosen for restoration during the second year of the initiative.