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One of North American cinema’s great pioneers, Henry King (1886-1982) started working for various studios in 1917, during the silent movie period, moving in 1930 to 20th Century Fox, with which he was to make most of his subsequent films.
He brought the world of westerns reflections on violence as praiseworthy as The Gunfighter (1950) and The Bravados (1958). He stirred the adventure film world with The Black Swan (1942) or Captain from Castile (1947). He respectfully adapted both Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald. In melodrama he swung to and fro between extremely harsh tales like Beloved Infidel (1959) or Tender is the Night (1961), and others earning tremendous popularity in their day, The Song of Bernadette (1943) and Love is a Many Splendored Thing
(1955), both starring Jennifer Jones. He applied his particular style to the so-called American genre and drew a picture of his country in films which always maintained their own point of view despite having to obey production policies at Fox.
This retrospective will come with a book published by the Festival and the Spanish Film Archive in which different experts take an in-depth look at King’s rich, hidden and suggestive work.
Classic retrospective
A regular chapter in the Festival retrospective section has been
a cycle dedicated to a classic director, enabling us to appreciate
the little or virtually unknown work of such filmmakers as Robert
Siodmak, James Whale, William Dieterle, William A. Wellman, Gregory
La Cava, Tod Browning, Mitchell Leisen, Mikio Naruse, John M.
Stahl, Carol Reed, Frank Borzage, Michael Powell, Preston Sturges,
Anthony Mann, Robert Wise and Ernst Lubitsch.
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