Pros: Production Values, Cinematography, Anton Waldron, Moira Shearer, Direction, Score Cons: Could be seen as histrionic but I think theater people are really like that
There is a school of thought that contends that real art takes sacrifice, pain, and sublimation of personal desires to the craft. No other film I'm aware of hammers this idea home better than The Red Shoes, whose protagonist Boris Lermontov ...
Pros: A fantastic synthesis of dance, music, and cinema; magnificently filmed ballet within the film Cons: No weaknesses of any consequence
I've cried in pain, at times, and I've shed tears of joy, but this may be the first film that has ever drawn tears for the sheer majesty of pure art. There's a portion of this film, roughly halfway through, that is a triumph of artistic collaboration ...
Pros: Direction, Script, Set Designs, Visual Effects, Cinematography, Music, & Cast. Cons: None, Though Young Audiences Might Feel the Visual Effects are Dated.
One of the greatest cinematic teams in the early 1940s through the late 1950s were the British directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The writing, producing, and directing team created films that were unique in their take on war and ...
Pros: The camera work, the musical score, the sets are amazing Cons: The script!
Introduction: Michael Powell's and Emeric Pressuburger's The Red Shoes is an often stunning work of art. However, it's not nearly as profound as it ought to be thanks to a lacking script. Despite that, it's a gorgeous movie and certainly ...
Pros: 'The Red Shoes' ballet, Walbrook, Shearer, Massine, Technicolour, Brian Easdale�s music. Cons: Marius Goring.
‘The Red Shoes’ is the 1948 British classic and another brilliant cinematic achievement by writers/directors/producers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger). It supposedly sent droves of young girls to the barre. Beyond this interesting ...
Pros: Thoughtful. Wonderfully made. Very Unique. Cons: Well, I'm not a big ballet fan... this movie makes it look good, though.
The Red Shoes is two parts movie and one part fairy tale. This is as it should be. If the movie dabbled any more in reality, it would be a bore. If it pressed its limits of fairy tale any more, it would be unbelievable. For what The Red Shoes ...
Pros: One of the few authentic tragedies created for the film medium. Cons: The film is a modern primal fairy tale, ancient, neoteric, a box within a box.
The mark of a great poem is that we can't imagine a word changed or transposed. I can think of only two films which rise to this highest standard in Art. One is CITIZEN KANE (1941); the other is THE RED SHOES (1948). Of the two, THE RED SHOES is ...
Pros: The music, photography, backstage atmosphere, performances. Cons: Somewhat over-the-top, as befits the subject.
There are images in this film that will haunt you. Its influence on cinema is palpable. Never - except in the minds of its primary creators, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - did these people exist. And yet they become as real to the viewer as...
Pros: score, sets, editing, casting, story Cons: exaggerated characters and situations, sometimes melodramatic
The Red Shoes is one of the most famous films from the producing, directing, and writing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. An ambitious, expensive film, it went well over budget and was considered a flop when initially released in...
Pros: colors, music Cons: may be too tragic for some
British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, also known as the Archers, reigned supreme for a little over a decade, from 1939 to 1951. They wrote, directed, and produced a nearly unbroken stream of classics: “The Spy in Black” (1939), “The...
A haunting film for lovers of ballet and students of psychology, The Red Shoes is one of my favorite films of all times, along with The Twelve Chairs and Black Orpheus. The year the film was released, 1948, I was 13 years old. Coincidentally, that...
A ballerina with magical, cursed shoes loves a composer but dances for an impresario. Directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.More at HotMovieSale.com
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