The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Criterion Collection) (Blu-ray)
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
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- Rated: Not Rated
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: March 19, 2013
- Originally Released: 1943
- Label: Criterion Collection
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Roger Livesey | |
Performer: | Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook & John Laurie | |
Directed by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | |
Screenwriting by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger | |
Composition by | Allan Gray | |
Cinematography by | Georges Périnal | |
Produced by | Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger |
Entertainment Reviews:
The greatest of all British films, the greatest film about Britishness
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CinePassion
Rating: 9/10 --
The rarest of cinematic treasures: a historical epic that is also intensely personal and emotionally earnest.
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Movie Metropolis
Rating: 5/5 --
Staggering and heartbreaking. Still.
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Little White Lies
Rating: 4/4 --
says something wonderful about who we are when we're at our best.
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Film Freak Central
A 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaboration so unambiguously satirizing the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned.
Village Voice
Rating: 10/10 --
Maybe the most essentially, urgently British of the 21 films Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger made together.
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Antagony & Ecstasy
Each individual part is carefully built up and the film as a whole (if a trifle unsatisfying in retrospect) repays the evident care which has been lavished upon it.
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Monthly Film Bulletin
Product Description:
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's much-lauded epic LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP, which satirizes British traditionalism, stirred up impassioned hostilities and indignations among the Brits when released in 1943. It so infuriated Winston Churchill, in fact, that he refused to allow its exportation to other countries, particularly the U.S. When BLIMP finally did premiere in the States in 1945, it screened in a drastically cut version. The sweeping story covers several decades. It begins at the tail end of the Boer War, when handsome young British officer Clive Candy, recently back from the battlefront, is infuriated by his discovery that Deutschland papers have played up the British atrocities in South Africa, propagandistically. He grows so irate, in fact, that he travels to Germany to address the problem. Once there, he meets an attractive British educator, Edith Hunter (Deborah Kerr) who spends her days teaching English as a second language to German students. They grow close, but Candy so aggravates the local indigenes that he winds up in a duel with a German officer, Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Anton Walbrook). The men wound each other and are sent to the same hospital, where they become friends. Candy - who doesn't yet realize he's fallen in love with Edith -- senses that Theo and Edith are attracted to one another, and encourages the couple's marital union. Candy subsequently returns to England, then falls for and marries Barbara (again played by Kerr), a nurse who bears a strong resemblance to Edith. She later dies, but Candy meets a third woman during WWII, Johnny (Kerr a third time), assigned to drive him from one locale to another during his campaigns. Meanwhile, Theo - disgusted by Nazi atrocities -- absconds to England, where he reencounters his old friend, now a prattering old shuffler rapidly approaching the end of his career and raving continuously about Nazi conduct (or lack thereof) in battle. Powell and Pressberger adapted COLONEL BLIMP from a comic strip; it became one of the hallmarks of their careers.
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