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Paperback The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Book

ISBN: 1838719105

ISBN13: 9781838719104

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

(Part of the BFI Film Classics Series)

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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...

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