The extraordinary 15-minute performance of the Red Shoes ballet at the film’s climax is one of the most famous sequences in British cinema. The film won Oscars for its score and its remarkable sets.

Nuns, land girls, ballet dancers: the paradoxes of Powell and Pressburger’s women ...

about a ballerina who wore an enchanted pair of magical red ballerina slippers that forced her to never stop dancing - and she danced herself to death: the film opened with the mysterious entrance ...

Meanwhile, Julian is summoned to see Lermontov, who informs him of his intention to begin a new ballet, 'The Red Shoes', based on a story by Hans Christian Anderson about a young girl who buys a pair ...

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The Red Shoes (1948, UK) is a beautiful and sensitive post-war film - the 10th collaboration from the masterful and respected British directing/producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger ...

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The Red Shoes' barely puts a foot wrong". While drawing on the original story for its darkness, this production borrows from the backdrop of the 1948 Powell and Pressburger film "for its dance ...

With its captivating behind-the-scenes insights into the creative process, fairytale enchantments and characters for whom art is more important than life itself, The Red Shoes is perhaps the ...

Guests including filmmaker Sally Potter discuss the lasting impact of Powell and Pressburger’s 1948 masterpiece ... discussion hosted by Pamela Hutchinson, author of The Red Shoes (BFI Film Classics).

The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen is a cautionary narrative about (female) vanity; its most famous reworking, Powell and Pressburger’s classic 1948 film, sounds a warning about (female ...