Art, Life, & Death: 3 Films by The Archers (Film 2)
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) (2h 44m)
Introduced by: Kevin Quarmby, Ph.D. (CSS English Faculty)
Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), an infamous caricature of Winston Churchill, is given a fictional biopic in this moving tale of indelible friendship between an English officer and his German adversary (Anton Walbrook). Deborah Kerr notably plays three roles.
‘The Archers’ was a unique filmmaking partnership formed by British film director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, a Hungarian writer who fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to England. Powell worked through the 1920s learning his craft by way of creating a series of short ‘quota quickies,’ before being matched up with Pressburger by legendary film producer Alexander Korda. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s the two were inseparable as a creative team, creating their own production company, The Archers, and collaborating on some of Britain’s most renowned films of the period. Along with a regular troupe of actors, DP Jack Cardiff, Production Designer Alfred Junge, and Art Director Hein Heckroth, The Archers’ cinema embraced fantasy, subjectivity, and artificiality as ironic means to create what Powell termed ‘Total Cinema,’ a concept born in the search for artistic truth. Often bathed in 3-Strip Technicolor and staged with sublime effects, their regularly astonishing films of this period include the three chosen for this festival.
All films show with subtitles.
Introduced by: Kevin Quarmby, Ph.D. (CSS English Faculty)
Clive Candy (Roger Livesey), an infamous caricature of Winston Churchill, is given a fictional biopic in this moving tale of indelible friendship between an English officer and his German adversary (Anton Walbrook). Deborah Kerr notably plays three roles.
‘The Archers’ was a unique filmmaking partnership formed by British film director Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, a Hungarian writer who fled Nazi Germany and emigrated to England. Powell worked through the 1920s learning his craft by way of creating a series of short ‘quota quickies,’ before being matched up with Pressburger by legendary film producer Alexander Korda. From the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s the two were inseparable as a creative team, creating their own production company, The Archers, and collaborating on some of Britain’s most renowned films of the period. Along with a regular troupe of actors, DP Jack Cardiff, Production Designer Alfred Junge, and Art Director Hein Heckroth, The Archers’ cinema embraced fantasy, subjectivity, and artificiality as ironic means to create what Powell termed ‘Total Cinema,’ a concept born in the search for artistic truth. Often bathed in 3-Strip Technicolor and staged with sublime effects, their regularly astonishing films of this period include the three chosen for this festival.
All films show with subtitles.
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