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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
Jun 10, 1943 Wide
Oct 22, 2002
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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.
The movie looks past the fat, bald military man with the walrus moustache, and sees inside, to an idealist and a romantic. To know him is to love him.
Arguably the finest British film made during the second world war...
Blimp is a film that gives us musical mischief, marvellous moustaches, poignancy and peculiarity in droves.
This glorious film is about the greatest mystery of all: how old people were once young, and how young people are in the process of becoming old.
Staggering and heartbreaking. Still.
A wonderful salute to British decency and a touching portrait of a friendship that bridges national boundaries.
Its status as a national treasure is assured, thanks to Roger Livesey's protean lead turn, Deborah Kerr's three incarnations of his ideal woman and the mastery of the medium that typified The Archers at their height.
Maybe the most wonderfully British movie ever made.
Few British films from this period seem to mythologize the pre-war period of Churchill's youth and early career quite as potently.
It's a blatant bit of World War II propaganda and very talky, although with an undeniable spirit and some Lubitsch-like comic passages.
It might be the best film to ever come out of England.
Its brilliance lies in its insistence that even dinosaurs deserve empathy and maybe even love.
The magic of the Powell & Pressburger directing and producing team has never been more prevalent or as affecting as it was than with their World War II character study epic The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Heralded as one of, if not THE greatest British film ever made, its power lies soley in its performances and
January 26, 2012
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This film is an interesting look at young people looking at old people...what you see is a paunchy old guy with a moustache, but as the old guy says, "You don't know anything about me," and of course the movie endeavors then to tell us all about the old guy. It was a little humbling to realize that we are the last
January 13, 2012
Super Reviewer
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