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.

The Red Shoes' tells the story of a young orphan called Karen who is taken in by a kind elderly widow. As Karen's confirmation approaches, the widow takes her to the Shoemaker to buy shoes for the ...

Rambo’s Blood and the writer and star of In Which We Serve Conan the Barbarian’s sword and the subject of The Third Man Rocky ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Go, then. Go with him." Lermontov sarcastically described her horrible domestic life if she chose to be with Julian: Vicky was guided out of her room to the stage, as her willful red shoes began to ...

The Red Shoes is a tale of obsession ... Matthew Bourne’s magical adaptation of the classic Powell and Pressburger film is set to the achingly romantic music of golden-age Hollywood composer ...

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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 ...

Director Sofia Coppola had Manolo Blahnik create hundreds of specially made shoes for the film, including this blue ... of a car wearing a pair of fierce red pumps. There couldn't have been ...