BFI Goes Disney

• 23rd Nov 2010

Looks like we are not the only ones eager to celebrate the 50th Animated Classic from Disney. The BFI are taking it to the full extreme:

BFI Southbank and The Walt Disney Company have launched a unique season that gives audiences, for the first time ever, the opportunity to enjoy the magic of Disney’s entire stable of fifty animation feature films on the big screen. Every weekend throughout 2011, the Disney heritage will be gloriously showcased, spanning seventy years of films that combine beautiful artistry, masterful storytelling and ground-breaking technology. Seeing the films at BFI Southbank will be a truly special experience and give audiences of all ages an incredible opportunity to watch some of the world’s most celebrated, iconic and best loved family films of all time on the big screen.

Kicking off The Disney 50 is a landmark in Disney’s history, the launch of their fiftieth animated feature film Tangled (dir. Nathan Greno and Byron Howard, 2011). BFI Southbank will screen the film in 3D on the day of the film’s UK premiere, 16^th January 2011, 4.15pm in NFT1 followed by a special on-stage Q&A with the film’s directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard. Tangled is an action-packed, swashbuckling, animated musical comedy about the girl behind 70 feet of magical, golden hair.  Stolen from her parents’ castle as a baby, Rapunzel is locked in a hidden tower longing for adventure. Now an imaginative and determined teenager, she takes off on a hilarious, hair-raising escapade with the help of a dashing bandit named Flynn Rider. With the secret of her heritage hanging in the balance and her captor in pursuit, Rapunzel and her cohort find adventure, heart, humour, and hair… lots of hair.  With music by Alan Menken, this comedic re-imagining of the classic Brothers Grimm fairytale comes to UK theatres in Disney Digital 3D™ on 28th January 2011.

The remaining forty nine films will then be shown chronologically at BFI Southbank every weekend for the rest of the year starting with Disney’s first animation feature, and the first-ever animation feature in technicolour, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

We can’t wait!!!! In the meantime keep checking out blog as Disney retrospectives are going up every other day!