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	Channel 4 - History - Film review: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
		The idea for The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp sprang from a scene that they had excised from one of their earlier films, One of Our Aircraft Is Missing (1941), in which the middle-aged rear gunner of a bomber crew reminds a younger airman that he too was hot-headed and idealistic in his youth.
		Low’s Blimp was a portly relic of Britain’s colonial past, bald-headed and blustering at the iniquities of the modern world from the steamy sanctuary of the Turkish bath in the Royal Bathers’ Club.
		Blimp – in the Ministry of War’s opinion, a dangerous symbol of national obsolescence – is, in fact, placed by Powell and Pressburger at the heart of a living tradition in a densely layered ‘national epic’ that refuses to conform to the propaganda imperatives of the time.
	www.channel4.com /history/microsites/H/history/e-h/film-colonelblimp.html (1201 words)

	Colonel Blimp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cartoonist David Low first drew Colonel Blimp for Lord Beaverbrook's London Evening Standard in the 1930s: pompous, irascible, jingoistic and stereotypically English.
		Blimp was a satire on the reactionary opinions of the British establishment of the 1930s and 1940s.
		A more sympathetic version of Blimp appeared in the classic British film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, which nonetheless begins with Blimp in the steam room.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Colonel_Blimp (257 words)

	blimp - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		In 1938 all military blimps in the U.S....
		In 1841 the humorous weekly magazine Punch was founded, and it soon became one of the best-known publications in the world for caricature.
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, British motion picture about a stodgy British soldier who tries to come to terms with changing times as he...
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	Colonel Blimps' England
		Blimp's career, in Low's cartoons and elsewhere, is a window into an era crucial to Britain's fortunes in the world, on the evolution of her national symbols, and on the impact of editorial cartooning.
		Bryant's theme is that Colonel Blimp was a derisory and contemptuous symbol used against the loyalty and patriotism of British public servants...
		Colonel Blimp was created in the thirties to symbolise the stupidity and confusion then prevalent in ruling political circles concerning the threat of Hitler.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /Reviews/43_Blimp/Blimp18.html (4151 words)

	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Criterion Collection DVD - Michael Weise Productions
		The Colonel Blimp cartoons are worth seeing as how they might have damaged the film: the cartoon character was a blustery, stuffy duffer from the inter-war years -- dumpy, red-faced, white walrus mustache like the aged Clive Candy.
		Blimp was not really likeable in print, who could have easily made the movie character a forgettable cartoon figure as well.
		Blimp was not likeable, but the film makes you care about Livesay's character.
	www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B00005JL0W (745 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: The Criterion Collection
		Their first color film, but neither their first nor last encounter with controversy, Powell and Pressburger's 1945 The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a moving, funny, and constantly surprising story that is both based on a popular cartoon character and yet also a highly personal story reflecting elements of both filmmakers' lives.
		Blimp himself was a character in a series of political cartoons by David Low, meant to mock Conservative ideas and policies.
		Blimp — almost always found in situ at a Turkish bath, wrapped in a towel covering his round belly, his vast walrus mustache hanging like tongs — is always presented declaiming some comic and self-evidently contradictory or obviously revelatory remark to his auditor, a David Low surrogate.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/l/lifeanddeathofcblimp_cc.shtml (1350 words)

	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Colonel Blimp is both of these and has to rate as my runaway favourite film.
		Anton Wallbrook then delivers a setpiece speech which starkly outlines the evils of Nazism and the necessity to use any means to defeat it for the sake of freedom and humanity for coming generations.
		Colonel Blimp with its pristine performances, absorbing plot, dazzling colour photography and economic flawless script easily gives Citizen Kane a good run for its money as the best film of all time.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0036112 (592 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is one of the great works of art in the history of film, and yet, except for some recent television screenings, this British production is largely unknown in the United States.
		Colonel Blimp was a creation of the English political cartoonist David Low, who used him to satirize the unimaginative reactionary minds, both political and military, that were rampant on the British scene in the 1930s and 1940s.
		Colonel Blimp as conceived by Low was a puffy, pompous member of the British military, a near-Fascist, usually making profound contradictory pronouncements on the state of everything.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=173&eid=249§ion=essay (865 words)

	Amazon.de: Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (BFI Film Classics (Paperback)): English Books: A. L. Kennedy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		"The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp", released in 1943, is regarded as one of the masterpieces of British cinema.
		Kennedy's book is an analysis of the script, not the film; she betrays little meaningful knowledge of cinema, and so cannot explain the film as a visual experience, beyond a few platitudes.
		BLIMP contains arguably the greatest shot in all cinema - as Pressburger pulls back from the duelling scene - but Kennedy is unable to respond to it satisfactorily.
	www.amazon.de /Death-Colonel-Blimp-Classics-Paperback/dp/0851705685 (459 words)

	DVD Savant Review: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
		Colonel Blimp started as a completely satirical comic strip oaf, an overweight, walrus-moustached conservative military officer whose pomposity was used by artist David Low to skewer snobbish upperclass complacency and obsolescent ideas.
		How The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp could have been filmed and released is a head-scratcher, and can only serve as testament to the creative power of the two wonder-men and their backer J. Arthur Rank.
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp was probably granted a release because cooler heads in the government wisely realized that suppressing an expensive movie by their most prestigious filmmakers, would show that free speech was indeed regulated, and hurt morale far more.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s649blimp.html (2377 words)

	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		Blimp quite simply is an epic with all the scope but with none of the recognizable elements of adventure and locale and sweep.
		The best part of the extras package on Criterion's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp disc, besides the lovingly rendered print (restored to its original length, form, and 1.33:1 aspect ratio), is doubtless the audio commentary track.
		In addition, a video documentary titled "A Profile of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp" is included which relates the history behind the film and the controversy it met with upon its initial release.
	www.hollywoodvideo.com /movies/movie.aspx?MID=758 (1461 words)

	Images - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
		Far removed from Low's original conception of Blimp as a likeable buffoon, Candy is a roguish romantic who honestly believes in the bond of true friendship, honor of country, and the notion that if you treat a man as your equal he will likewise do the same.
		The unparalleled craftsmanship that Powell and Pressburger displayed in Colonel Blimp (it was their first production as a genuine artistic team) opened a veritable floodgate of stellar films over the years.
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is now available on DVD from The Criterion Collection in a new digital transfer of the British Film Institute's restoration of the original full-length version (163 minutes).
	www.imagesjournal.com /2003/reviews/colonelblimp/text.htm (1402 words)

	DVD Times - The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp: Special Edition
		The 'Blimp' character, who announces himself as General Clive Wynne-Candy, isn't impressed with the way he and his fellow officers are being treated.
		In Blimp, he's called upon to be the film's moral core, the face of suffering at the decay - both in real terms and morally - of his beloved Fatherland and the world beyond.
		Blimp was an early success in the use of technicolour.
	www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=57919 (3387 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp [1943]: DVD: James McKechnie,Neville Mapp,Vincent Holman,Roger ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The part of Colonel Blimp is played by Roger Livesey who produces just about the finest performance I've seen in any film; I can't imagine any actor past or present making a more perfect performance of the eponymous subject.
		Colonel Blimp is one of them (Peeping Tomanother): whilst Anton Wahlbrook is perhaps my favourite actor (witness LaRonde) his performance in this film is limp and Deborah Kerr is also belowpar.
		'Colonel Blimp' is worth checking out because it develops from an emotionally detached movie at the start into a deeply moving study on obsession and the lengths to which people go to make sense of their lives.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Life-Death-Colonel-Blimp/dp/B00006424A (2452 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Except the spirits of the soldiers at the start of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) are too high for people engaged in counter-espionage.
		Colonel Blimp's mockery is the mild type that grows from deep affection.
		Colonel Blimp unfolds mostly in flashback and always in vivid Technicolor.
	www.epinions.com /content_181503889028 (901 words)

	dOc DVD Review: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) - Printable
		Blimp was a creation of British cartoonist David Low in 1934, and he rapidly came to symbolize right-wing stupidity and military blockheadedness.
		The picture seems to have very mixed messages, for its Blimp is meant to be an object of derision (otherwise the name would not have been borrowed), but it's hard to take that position seriously in the way that the film unfolds.
		The flashback structure seems to indicate that the new army mode is the one to be followed, and this is confirmed by Powell in the commentary.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showrevpdf.php3?ID=4195 (1069 words)

	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) is a film by the British writer-director-producer team of Powell and Pressburger under the banner of The Archers, starring Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr and Anton Walbrook.
		The film's name is taken from the satirical Colonel Blimp comic strip by David Low.
		"Colonel Blimp is as unmistakably a British product as Yorkshire pudding and, like the latter, it has a delectable savor all its own." – New York Times, March 30, 1945.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Life_and_Death_of_Colonel_Blimp (2026 words)

	Life and Death of Colonel Blimp - DVD Movie Central
		Colonel Blimp is not a man, but a comic image, and The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is not about the image, but the man who conjures it up.
		Much like Grand Illusion, Blimp recognizes the passing of an era where wars were fought by gentlemen who recognized rules, order and discipline as tools for victory.
		It starts with another terrific and in-depth commentary track by Martin Scorsese with the late great Michael Powell (as recorded originally for the laser disc), which is as solid and informative as you would hope for (Scorsese, in addition to being a great filmmaker himself, is also one of our country’s premiere movie buffs!).
	dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/life_and_death_of_colonel_blimp.htm (1079 words)

	Colonel Blimps' England by Prof. Peter Mellini
		P.S. I know Colonel Blimp is a myth, but that does not alter the fact they are still having a rub at religion.
		'Colonel Blimp' as far as I know him, is a decent English squire in uniform.
		It would never be 'Colonel Blimp' who would treat the fl man as Constantine was treated at the Imperial Hotel the other day.
	www.politicalcartoon.co.uk /html/history14.htm (3828 words)

	The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp - Movie Review
		The film is based on a comic strip called "Colonel Blimp," created in England by David Low in the 1930s that was both sarcastic and frequently harsh about the old British imperial attitudes that defined the late 19th century conservative men of the military.
		This film doesn’t quite have all of the magic of those others – some scenes linger a little too long – but it is certainly better than any old run-of-the-mill epic and is more than worth a look whether you are a fan of their work or have never heard of them.
		There is also a 24 minute video-documentary about the film as well as a selection of David Low’s "Colonel Blimp," cartoons and a good number of production stills from the film.
	contactmusic.com /new/film.nsf/reviews/thelifeanddeathofcolonelblimp (587 words)

	The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is essentially a love story which along the way suggests that British Army tactics were out of touch with reality, with Generals playing a gentleman's war to set rules.
		The films overseas release was finally approved on 25 August 1943, although it was May 1945 before the film was seen in the US in a print cut by about 20 minutes.
		Blimp was to suffer probably more than any other Archers film from differing release prints.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /directors/m_powell/filmography/013.html (697 words)

	Mirrorball \| Colonel Blimp Retrospective - Edinburgh International Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It was named in homage to the 1944 film The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, directed by Powell and Pressburger.
		Our hero in the film fights a duel and cuts his top lip so badly that he is forced to grow a large and unusual handlebar moustache which he keeps for the rest of his life.
		Colonel Blimp believes that a memorable music video is much like growing an unusual moustache.
	www.edfilmfest.org.uk /movies/show/mirrorball_colonel_blimp_retrospective (231 words)

	The Life And Death of Colonel Blimp R1 vs. R2
		Once it was completed and released, the film was denied an export license to the United States until almost two years after the war, by which time it had been shorn of nearly an hour of material.
		One thing that makes the film's argument so ambiguous, mystical and difficult to grasp is that it conflates too many qualities — of political ideology and national character, for instance — and assumes that military conduct can be discussed in purely spiritual terms, without reference to political or historical circumstances, or even to technology.
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is in a sense playing at soldiers, playing at myths of nationhood.
	www.celtoslavica.de /chiaroscuro/films/lifeblimp/blimp.html (1144 words)

	TIME.com: Gad, Sir, He Had To Die -- Jun. 21, 1943 -- Page 1
		Blimp paid reluctant attention to earth-shaking events as he waddled to the insular comfort of his club to find good sherry and claret, a deep leather chair and reassuring words in the London Times.
		Present to applaud The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp at London's Odeon Theatre were Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, many another bigwig.
		In such times as these, when the respect and confidence of other countries are of vital importance to us, we cannot afford to put out a burlesque figure like this Colonel Blimp to go round the world as a personification of those British officers who.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,766751,00.html (721 words)

	The Criterion Collection: Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The
		The passions and pitfalls of a lifetime in the military are dramatized in Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s magnificent epic, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.
		Vibrant and controversial, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is at once a romantic portrait of a career soldier and a pointed investigation into the nature of aging, friendship, and obsolescence.
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
	www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=173 (346 words)

	'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' reconsidered - 1943 Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television - Find ...
		The aim of this article, therefore, is to reconsider The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp from a revisionist perspective.
		It will provide a critical survey of the historiography of the film, examine the question of why the attempt to suppress it failed, and discuss the film's critical and popular reception both in Britain and the United States by drawing on a range of contemporary sources.
		The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a Technicolor epic which chronicles the military career of Major-General Clive Wynne-Candy (Roger Livesey) from the turn of the century to World War II.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2584/is_n1_v15/ai_16922273/pg_37 (938 words)

	Colonel Blimp - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Colonel Blimp - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Me and the Colonel, motion picture about two men fleeing Paris, France, just prior to the Nazi invasion of the city.
		Search for books about your topic, "Colonel Blimp"
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