The Film Programme
Moving Image - When Paddington Bear Met Colonel Blimp
- Author: Vários
- Narrator: Vários
- Publisher: Podcast
- Duration: 0:33:19
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Synopsis
In the first of the new Moving Image series, Francine Stock talks to a filmmaker about a movie that continues to inspire them. This month, director Paul King reveals the influence of Powell and Pressburger's The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp on his two Paddington adaptations. Legendary editor and Michael Powell's widow, Thelma Schoonmaker reveals the influence of Colonel Blimp on Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull. Historian Ian Christie supplies the backstory to the film that Churchill tried to scupper.