• The Great Political Films: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

  • Oct 24 2024
  • Length: 51 mins
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The Great Political Films: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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  • In today’s episode David discusses Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), a great patriotic anti-war film made in the depths of WWII. Why did Churchill want the film’s production stopped and was he right to suspect it was about him? What does the film say about the politics of nostalgia and the illusions of heroism? And how is Blimp’s moustache like Kane’s Rosebud?

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