Clive Candy
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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 ...
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.
1 day ago · Roger Livesey salutes a new generation of soldiers and officers in “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.” If Colonel Blimp gradually accrues power as it goes, Black Narcissus is the opposite, a feverish hallucination of a movie where there’s so much repressed sexuality that it spills into the rioting colors of the Himalayas where a group ...
3 days ago · In “The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,” for instance — a 1943 film Winston Churchill didn’t want made because he worried it would satirize the British military and affect morale — two ...
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 ...
3 days ago · Films such as 1943’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp and 1945’s I Know Where I’m Going are a celebration of British values, a mix of sentimentality and no-nonsense courage, and ...
