University of Pittsburgh Cinemateque presents THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP 10/30

1. Cinematheque:
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
Thursday October 30, 2014. 6:00 p.m., CL-G8.
Please join us for the second film in our fall Cinematheque
series: “The Best Films I’ve Never Seen.” Film PhD candidate
Kevin Flanagan will present The Life and Death of Colonel
Blimp, a 1943 film from British directors Michael Powell and
Emeric Pressburger. This film, which chronicles the career of a
British officer from the Boer War through World War II, has
often been called the greatest British film ever made, and is
#93 in the BFI Sight & Sound Critics Poll of the best films of all
time.
This semester’s theme, “The Best Film I’ve Never Seen”,
presents some of the most critically acclaimed, but least seen
films ever made, based on a poll of current film studies
graduate students.
For more information contact Michael Svedman
(mis153@pitt.edu) or John Taylor (jpt30@pitt.edu).
Event Sponsored by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization.

2. Event Sponsored by the Film Studies Graduate Student Organization.