"Now here is the lake and I still haven't changed."

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp is a film that I have become thoroughly obsessed with. It has become one of those comfort films that you watch when nothing else appeals. It's nearly three-hour run-time flies by. I'm grateful every day to its champions - Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker, Ian Christie, the BFI, the Film Foundation, and the Criterion Collection - that have permitted me the opportunity to watch…

I have reached a point in my Powell and Pressburger fandom that if you ask me to rank the best films of the 1940s, the top five will be Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going!, The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, and this film all in the #1 slot.

This film is an extraordinary treatise on the nature of love, that it can somehow bend the will of the universe (I think Nolan has this in…