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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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The Red Shoes
The Red ShoesQuote: The Red Shoes (1948) is a British feature film about ballet, written, directed and produced by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, known collectively as The Archers. The movie employs the story within a story device, being about a young ballerina who joins an established ballet company and becomes the lead dancer in a new ballet called The Red Shoes, itself based on the fairy tale, "The Red Shoes" by Hans Christian Andersen. The film stars Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook and Marius Goring and features Robert Helpmann, Léonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina, renowned dancers from the ballet world, as well as Esmond Knight and Albert Basserman. It has original music by Brian Easdale and cinematography by Jack Cardiff, and is well regarded for its creative use of Technicolor. Filmmakers such as Brian DePalma and Martin Scorsese have named it one of their all time favorite films.
Although loosely based on the Andersen story, it was also said to have been inspired by the real-life meeting of Sergei Diaghilev with the British ballerina Diana Gould. Diaghilev asked her to join his company, but he died before she could do so. Diana Gould later became the second wife of Yehudi Menuhin.
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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Fri Sep 10, 2010 10:53 am |
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Johnny Dollar
The Lubitsch Touch
Joined: Thu Jul 21, 2005 5:48 pm Posts: 11019
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Re: The Red Shoes
anton walbrook ftw
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Fri Sep 10, 2010 1:29 pm |
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MovieDude
Where will you be?
Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am Posts: 11675
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Re: The Red Shoes
Umm Technicolor for the win. Hot damn, how many sequences are as beautiful as the halluncinatory centerpiece performance of this film?
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Tue Mar 22, 2011 7:45 am |
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Argos
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Joined: Sat May 13, 2006 2:20 pm Posts: 7952 Location: Wherever he went, including here, it was against his better judgment.
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Re: The Red Shoes
MovieDude wrote: Hot damn, how many sequences are as beautiful as the halluncinatory centerpiece performance of this film? 42.
_________________ "Der Lebenslauf des Menschen besteht darin, dass er, von der Hoffnung genarrt, dem Tod in die Arme tanzt." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:22 am |
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MovieDude
Where will you be?
Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 4:50 am Posts: 11675
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Re: The Red Shoes
Argos wrote: MovieDude wrote: Hot damn, how many sequences are as beautiful as the halluncinatory centerpiece performance of this film? 42. Great news! Please give me the names of two films that contain some!
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Tue Mar 22, 2011 9:38 am |
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Argos
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Joined: Sat May 13, 2006 2:20 pm Posts: 7952 Location: Wherever he went, including here, it was against his better judgment.
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Re: The Red Shoes
I shall ask the mice.
_________________ "Der Lebenslauf des Menschen besteht darin, dass er, von der Hoffnung genarrt, dem Tod in die Arme tanzt." - Arthur Schopenhauer
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Tue Mar 22, 2011 11:02 am |
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Michael A
Joined: Sat Dec 27, 2008 4:48 am Posts: 6245
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Re: The Red Shoes
MovieDude wrote: Umm Technicolor for the win. Hot damn, how many sequences are as beautiful as the halluncinatory centerpiece performance of this film? Probably like none. The similarly trippy dance/song sequence in Singing in the rain may rival it. I guess I never wrote a review in here? It's a good movie and stuff, much much better than black swan.
_________________Mr. R wrote: Malcolm wrote: You seem to think threatening violence against people is perfectly okay because you feel offended by their words, so that's kind of telling in itself. Exactly. If they don't know how to behave, and feel OK offending others, they get their ass kicked, so they'll think next time before opening their rotten mouths.
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Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:26 pm |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: The Red Shoes
This is better than Singin' in the Rain.
(yoshue's gonna kill me now)
_________________Magic Mike wrote: zwackerm wrote: If John Wick 2 even makes 30 million I will eat 1,000 shoes. Same. Algren wrote: I don't think. I predict.
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