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The Film Programme: Moving Image - When Paddington Bear Met Colonel Blimp

Moving Image - When Paddington Bear Met Colonel Blimp

27/09/2018

BBC Radio 4 - The Film Programme, Moving Image - When Paddington Bear Met Colonel Blimp

Paul King on the influence of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp on his Paddington films.

Presented by Francine Stock. Director Paul King reveals the influence of Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp on his two Paddington adaptations.

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.

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