Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

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 d...