Restored `The Private Life of Henry VIII` to world premiere at 62nd BFI London Film Festival
(Artdaily.org)

The BFI National Archive and The Film Foundation’s new 4K digital restoration of Alexander Korda’s vivacious portrait of The Private Life of Henry VIII will world premiere at the upcoming 62nd BFI London Film Festival in partnership with American Express. Showing on 20th October at BFI Southbank the festival screening is also a taster for the BFI’s upcoming Kordas season at BFI Southbank in January 2019. Flamboyant producer/director Alexander Korda, a Hungarian Jewish émigré, arrived in Britain in 1931 and promptly shook up British cinema. A charming maverick, Korda transformed the landscape of the British film industry, proving that Britain could compete with America on its own terms. He was joined not only by his brothers, art director Vincent (production designer of The Private Life of Henry VIII) and screenwriter/director/producer Zoltán, but a number of other