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Highlights
from 2010
The first ever Cheltenham Film Festival launched last year, with an ambitious mix of old favourites, rare treasures and Previews. We were particularly proud that the BFI National Archive marked its 75th anniversary with us! Please scroll through just some of the highlights below.
Red Hill
To close Cheltenham Film Festival’s main screen we were proud to host a Special Preview of Red Hill; a taut Australian thriller which unfolds over the course of a single day, told with explosive action and chilling violence.
Courtesy of Momentum Pictures
The Millenium Trilogy
Cheltenham Film Festival was the first festival in the UK to screen Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy back-to-back, including a South West Preview of the trilogy’s final chapter The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Courtesy of Momentum Pictures
Love Letters and Live Wires
Nigel Algar (Senior Curator of Fiction at the BFI) opened our dedicated BFI National Archive Screen with a special screening of Love Letters and Live Wires; a charming series of short films produced by the General Post Office.
Courtesy of The BFI
The Bicycle Thieves
Thanks to Arrow Films we had a fantastic three-day programme of eclectic world cinema. Vittorio De Sica’s iconic Bicycle Thieves, often described as the best film ever made, for example and much more!
Courtesy of Arrow Films
A Cottage on Dartmoor, with Stephen Horne
Renowned silent cinema pianist Stephen Horne gave a fantastic live performance of his score, written specifically for the feature A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929).
Courtesy of Alex Nicholson
Alien
Screened in the ornate Princess Hall of Cheltenham Ladies College, one of the most iconic films ever to be made, was unforgettable.
Courtesy of Film Bank
Dracula
A special screening of Terence Fisher’s newly restored British Hammer Horror classic Dracula, with Christopher Lee, closed Cheltenham Film Festival at the BFI National Archive Screen.
Courtesy of The BFI
Red Hill
To close Cheltenham Film Festival’s main screen we were proud to host a Special Preview of Red Hill; a taut Australian thriller which unfolds over the course of a single day, told with explosive action and chilling violence.
Courtesy of Momentum Pictures
The Millenium Trilogy
Cheltenham Film Festival was the first festival in the UK to screen Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy back-to-back, including a South West Preview of the trilogy’s final chapter The Girl who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest.
Courtesy of Momentum Pictures
