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4 days ago · Powell and Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp gives that lack of flexibility a backstory, teaching the lesson while still offering compassion. The movie is framed with scenes in the present, which play very differently after seeing all that passed in the past.
2 days ago · We transition from war depicted as a game of hide-and-seek, sometimes painful, sometimes humorous (49th Parallel, Oscar for Pressburger for the screenplay), to the deeply romantic historical reconstruction of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (forty years of friendship between an English and a German officer, through loves, defeats, lost ...
Jul 15, 2024 · There are clear reasons why some might consider The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp their definitive film: its very Britishness, its doomed romanticism, its cheeky bits of humor, and moments like the crane shot during Candy and Kretschmar-Schuldorff’s duel.
2 days ago · “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp” is steaming on Prime Video, Max, the Roku Channel, the Criterion Channel and Tubi, while “A Matter of Life and Death” is streaming on the Classix app.
Jul 12, 2024 · Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger. At the beginning of “Made in England: The Films of Powell & Pressburger,” Martin Scorsese recounts how he first encountered the works of the legendary filmmaking duo of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger as a child under perhaps the worst conditions imaginable — on his family’s ...
Jul 9, 2024 · The Life and Death of Powell and Pressburger. Michael Powell was born in 1905 in England; he received a crash course in filmmaking while working for the legendary silent movie director Rex Ingram before cutting his teeth on a variety of English “quota quickies.”
2 days ago · He cites The Tales of Hoffmann (1951) as perhaps the ultimate testament of Powell and Pressburger’s vision of “all art is one,” a total cinema. For lovers of film looking to expand their ...
