Is it Thursday already? Just one film to report from last weekend - the second of the Powell and Pressburger double bill DVD, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

Again impossible to review as I have known this film for so long, since seeing it as a postage stamp sized image at the IMAX in Bradford, back in early 1990 on a snowy day with John 'Billy' Shears and his rather amazing Triumph Dolomite Sprint.

Still, it looked fresh even at the nth viewing. It was more complex than I remember - my friend watching with me couln't follow the first 10 minutes, even with subtitles. Who outside the UK and South Africa knows what the Boer War was about - do I? As one of the US soldiers says in the scene in 1918 Flanders, "The Boer War? Summer Maneuvers" (deliberate US spelling BTW.)

The film is really as much about war than anything, again all very relevant to today. Many things said about the Germans seemed to me to apply to the current US administration.

Anyway, what a fantastic movie - unforgettable scenes include:

- Deborah Kerr's triple role, a la Alec Guiness in Kind Hearts and Coronets - though much richer (and fewer than the D'Ascoynes)
- Deborah Kerr's speech about the Germans romanticism vs warlike nature to the sublime music of Schubert's Unvollende.
- Anton Walbrook's unmatched speech about his life in Germany in the 20s and 30s, losing his wife and his children to the Nazis.
- Colonel Blimp's makeup - making Roger Livesey convincing at all ages - still beyond many makeup artists nearly 60 years later.

and so on.

Next film? Not sure, maybe LOTR Twin Towers if it's still on at the UGC Toison d'Or.