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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has released photos of The Red Shoes, a new adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic tale by Nancy Harris. The production, which follows a girl besotted by a ...

We are delighted to announce that filmmaker Sally Potter, dance writer and critic Judith Mackrell as well as independent curator Helen Persson will join the panel discussion hosted by Pamela ...

Perhaps the greatest restoration/rerelease of the last few years, this magic-infused tale of the rise and fall of a young ballerina is back at Film Forum.