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British Telephone Film Institute +44 (0)20 7255 1444 Annual Review 21 Stephen Street Facsimile British 2000/2001 London +44 (0)20 7436 0439 W1T 1LN Email Film Institute UK [email protected] Website www.bfi.org.uk April 2000 May 2000 June 2000 July 2000 August 2000 September 2000 October 2000 November 2000 December 2000 January 2001 February 2001 March 2001 14th London Lesbian and Silent Shakespeare International Federation bfi DVD release: Man with NFT seasons on Marcello bfi TV 100, list of favourite bfi Theatrical Release: Some The 44th bfi Regus London December bfi website Successful launch of the Joseph Losey’s M (1951) John Cassavetes season Gay Film Festival (LLGFF) compilation released of Film Archives (FIAF) a Movie Camera the first Mastroianni, the Olympics British television Like It Hot (sponsored by Film Festival (RLFF) formally accepted as part bfi Avant Garde video series restored and now available at the NFT on DVD in US Congress at NFT and the picture disk DVD released and films linked to Citizen programmes announced Accenture) and Salò of the National Grid for Sergio Leone season at NFT J Paul Getty Conservation in the UK Kane First screening of the silent Learning Robert Altman receives the Re-release of Breakfast The Tongues on Fire Online purchase of Sight Centre Overseas bookings were Restoration of Paul Czinner’s film Lady Windermere’s Fan 52nd bfi fellowship at Tiffany’s (sponsored by Asian Women’s Film Festival John Hurt Guardian Interview and Sound magazine set up Acquired the ground-breaking Lambeth Education Action at a record high with 220 As You Like It (1937) (1916) accompanied by a bfi cultural diversity strategy, Accenture) at the Odeon, at the NFT bfi publication: Film Parody Mitchell and Kenyon early Zone Summer School took films distributed completed as part of the new score commissioned phase 1, developed and Drawn to Be Wild Children’s Leicester Square bfi@Odeon Launched New bfi Publishing catalogue by Dan Harries film collections place at the NFT/IMAX / HLF Project by the bfi issued for consultation animation event launched First bfi@UCI schedule published Kennington Park Centre TV 2000 event at NFT with tour to 32 venues Inaugural meeting of bfi assembled First edition of Broadway Sheffield Hallam University Crime Scene 2000 weekend bfi publication Moving Northern Ireland’s Digital Film Film and TV Handbook Development Board held Nottingham’s Out of Sight bfi Fellowship award now provides access to the at NFT Fourth annual fact-packed Images in the Classroom, Archive project launched 2001 published Denis Gifford Tribute evening at the House of Lords Sight and Sound shortlisted silent film festival based on presented to Elizabeth Taylor bfi Film Database – SIFT education supplement a guide for secondary at the NFT for the PPA Best International films from bfi Collections Morgan Freeman Guardian Mediawatch 2000 published school teachers published A new web-based resource New website for Teachers Magazine Award bfi A Midsummer Night’s Interview by Sight and Sound (in association with Film on Macbeth published set up at mediaEd.org.uk Selected Dream celebration at the Education and Media Victoria Visions exhibition NFT bfi Online redesign bfi published Screening Centre) Library catalogue live on web at the V&A showcasing Highlights of completed Scotland, Hitchcock considerable footage from the Year Short courses on Cultural Suspense Humour Typiquement British bfi Collections Exhibition and Film Media Studies Conference and Tone and: Encore launched at the Pompidou Journalism at NFT Hollywood: Remaking Centre, Paris French Cinema bfi Fellows bfi Development Board Progress against key performance indicators The British Film Institute’s mission Robert Altman Lord Puttnam (Chair) Michelangelo Antonioni Tim Angel Dame Peggy Ashcroft Peter Foy Research Actual Target Lord Attenborough CBE David Parfitt Research reports 6 6 is to develop greater understanding Lord Bernstein Jonathan Ross Bernardo Bertolucci Eric Senat Web site page Sir Dirk Bogarde Trudie Styler impressions 3,619,273 1,800,000 Lord Brabourne and appreciation of film, television Sir Michael Caine Marcel Carné Education Projects Bette Davis Seminars 265 125 Gérard Depardieu Event attendees 25,042 20,000 and the moving image. Clint Eastwood David Francis OBE Teacher training places 312 170 Sir J Paul Getty Mailings 55,833 45,000 Graham Greene Sir Alec Guinness Leslie Hardcastle OBE Publishing Sir Jeremy Isaacs Titles 32 30 Derek Jarman Book sales 95,664 90,000 Deborah Kerr CBE Krzysztof Kieslowski Elem Klimov Sight & Sound Akira Kurosawa Copy sales 310,326 310,000 Verity Lambert Lynda La Plante Sir David Lean BFI National Library Ken Loach Library visits 13,742 17,000 Sir John Mills Information enquiries 30,487 40,000 Jeanne Moreau Maureen O’Hara SIFT entries 40,902 45,000 Lord Olivier Michael Parkinson CBE Access Dilys Powell CBE Michael Powell Archival sales – clients 426 350 Emeric Pressburger Film Bookings Admissions 457,094 500,000 Lord Puttnam CBE New clients (Qtr 1&2) 200 1,440 Satyajit Ray Vanessa Redgrave CBE Research viewings (Qtr 1&2) 1,291 1,600 Nicolas Roeg CBE Video units sold 89,834 72,000 Sir Sydney Samuelson CBE Thelma Schoonmaker Powell Martin Scorsese Registry Contents Jean Simmons SPD Interactions 2,509 2,500 Anthony Smith CBE Special Coll. Interactions 1,068 950 1 Chair’s foreword Dame Maggie Smith Dame Elizabeth Taylor Cataloguing Interactions 5,385 5,500 Jeremy Thomas Items short listed 275 550 2 Director’s foreword Orson Welles Robert Wise 3 Who we are – the big picture Alan Yentob Preservation (YTD Dec shown) Fred Zinnemann Nitrate material 4 bfi progress in key areas in 2000/2001 duplicated (ft.) 404,049 500,000 5 Raising awareness of film culture Triacetate material duplicated (ft.) 129,698 50,000 6 bfi people % of titles available for access 46.0% 64.8% Restorations completed 8 9 7 bfi working in partnership Viewing Copies completed 397 271 8 bfi in pursuit of excellence Festivals 136,779 127,000 9 bfi rewarded for excellence NFT Admissions 210,739 205,000 Film Café 737,785 682,000 Membership 30,642 35,000 Front Cover Page 1 Back Cover Cinema Services 1 The Devil is a Woman from NFT Marlene Dietrich season 1 Some Like It Hot bfi Theatrical Release 1 Kandukondain Kandukondain featured at the RLFF Regional Exhibitors 1,309,818 1,550,000 2 Screening Scotland bfi publications 2 MASH from the Robert Altman season celebrating 2 Summer Workshop with Lambeth Education (including Odeon) 3 Michael Caine and Kate Winslet at the world premiere his bfi Fellowship Action Zones Festivals 75,898 90,000 of Quills at the RLFF 3 Premiere of restored print of Napoléon at FIAF 2000 3 The Monkey’s Mask featured at the LLGFF 4 Cyberworld at the bfi London IMAX® Cinema 4 Laurence Olivier and Elizabeth Bergner in 4 Irish Film – Emergence of a contemporary cinema – 5 Breakfast at Tiffany’s bfi Theatrical Release As You Like It (1937) recently restored by bfi Collections bfi publications 6 Once Upon a Time in the West from the NFT with the support of The Heritage Lottery Fund 5 Night of the Hunter– bfi Film Classics Publications Sergio Leone season 6 Crime Scene Season at the NFT 7 Premiere of bfi restored print of Abel Gance’s Napoléon 7 Konnie Huq and competition winners at the launch at FIAF 2000 of Drawn to Be Wild 8 Belle de Jour bfi Film Classics Publications 8 Lola Montes from NFT season Brazil: 9 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon featured at the RLFF Cinema Nova and Beyond Design 10 Presque Rien featured at the LLGFF 9 Rekjavik 101 featured at the LLGFF SEA 11 Summer Workshop with Lambeth Education Action Zones. 10 Some Like It Hot – bfi Theatrical Release 12 MASH from the Robert Altman season celebrating 11 Three Colours Trilogy bfi Modern Classics Publications Print his bfi Fellowship 12 Yojimbo bfi DVD release Identity 1 2 3 4 2 Chair’s foreword Joan Bakewell CBE, bfi Chair I have recently completed my first year as Chair of the bfi and I am happy to report that the three main objectives I outlined when I arrived are being steadfastly and rigorously pursued. Education remains our first priority. The J Paul Getty Conservation Centre I am conscious, as ever, that much of what In agreement with the purposes of the is central to our major obligation to preserve we do is dependent on the enthusiasm Department of Culture, Media and Sport and restore the great film and television and commitment of our sponsors. Regus as set out by the Film Council by whom archive in our care. Plans are going forward and Accenture lead the way; many others we are funded, the bfi seeks to promote for the complete renewal of the centre itself lend support to specific enterprises – the knowledge and understanding of film so that it becomes a global resource for the Regus London Film Festival (RLFF), and the moving image throughout Britain’s archivists, scholars and students around the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival schools and colleges. We are doing this the world. New procedures are now in (LLGFF) among them. We owe thanks to on a larger scale than ever before through place and the consequent improvements our collaborators in the educational field, a programme of events, seminars and in our service have delighted many. and are delighted that UCI and Odeon collaborations that is as inventive as it is are extending the range of cinemas resourceful. Teachers are responding with All these aspirations are crystallized in where films are programmed by the bfi. enthusiasm to our initiatives. Already new our plans for a bfi Film Centre on the generations of children are being given south bank of the Thames.