Vertigo dir Alfred Hitchcock (Paramount, 1958)
Film Feels was the framework for BFI FAN’s UK-wide cinema season, with its own identity and marketing, designed to reach key audiences and support FAN exhibitors’ programming and audience development. This included the delivery of annual cross-FAN programmes of screenings and events, Film Feels and Blockbuster, the latter in response to the theme of the annual BFI ‘Blockbuster’ programme.
For more information visit the Film Feels website here.
Film Feels Hopeful took place a year after the global Covid-19 pandemic closed our cinemas and restricted physical events, leaving us to yearn for the big screen experience and the simple pleasures of being alone together in the dark. The reopening of cinemas nationwide, although still restricted by social distancing, made us hopeful and wanting to welcome programmes that looked at films imbued with hope, dreams of the future, and new ways of reimagining film itself. We welcomed in-venue, online, and hybrid projects and activities.
The COVID 19 pandemic pushed us apart physically, but cinemas and their audiences still found ways to come together, through watch parties, exclusive previews, tweet-alongs and VOD//venue partnerships. With this in mind, Film Feels Connected was a season designed to spotlight innovation across BFI FAN, to promote online activity during lockdown and to help cinemas, festivals and societies access support to try out new activity.
During the Summer 2019 Film Feels explored all things Obsession. Those of us who are obsessive about cinema know full well that the medium allows us to delve into our deepest desires and obsessions; the joy and community to be found in pursuing your passion, as well as the cautionary tales that obsessive behaviour can bring. Film Feels: Obsession was an opportunity to explore cinematic obsessions- from auteurs to oddballs, imitation to identity theft, Stalkers to Stans – across genres, icons and subtext, giving UK audiences enhanced experiences and critically engaged programming.
A UK-wide programme of screenings and events exploring the cinema and the legacy of 1968, joining the dots between that period and our own turbulent times, created by Film Hub Midlands and Watershed.
1968 wasn’t just a seismic year politically – it also produced its fair share of brilliant films, many of them reflecting the tumult of the times. This summer there’s an opportunity to explore the social and cinematic legacy of this unique period, and to join the dots between then and now.