The festival will screen 19 classic British films in cinemas across Melbourne, Sydney and Perth. The Australian premiere of the digitally restored 1951 film, The Tales of Hoffman is amongst the highlights, featuring a six-minutes of never-before-seen footage and an introduction by Martin Scorsese. The festival will also include the Australian premiere screenings of the digitally restored The Third Man (1949), the classic noir that was voted the greatest British film of all time by a British Film Institute poll.
Other screenings from across the two-week event include 2001: A Space Odyssey, Don’t Look Now, Brassed Off and Slumdog Millionaire.
