The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

by A.L. Kennedy

Winston Churchill hated The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp , and tried to have it banned when it was released in 1943. But Martin Scorsese, a champion of directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, considers it a masterpiece. It's a film about desires repressed in favour of worthless and unsatisfying ideals. And it's a film about how England dreamt of itself as a nation and how this dream disguised inadequacy and brutality in the clothes of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1838719105
• ISBN13: 9781838719104
• Release Date: May 2020
• Publisher: British Film Institute
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 7.4"