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| ACTORS: | Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| DIRECTOR: | Emeric Pressburger |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1948 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Criterion |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Dolby, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Drama, Movie, Musical Features, Musicals |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 037429128220 |
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Customer Reviews of The Red Shoes - Criterion Collection
Technical Feast I'm not a student of ballet but I know something special when I see it. What directors Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger have accomplished in "The Red Shoes" is utterly jawdropping. This is a technical accomplishment on the scale of what Orson Welles achieved with "Citizen Kane". Narrative and dance is brilliantly married here with revolutionary film technique. The use of cinematography, editing, color, and art direction are a cineastes delight. Moira Shearer, aside from being a highly expressive ballerina, has star wattage that rivals the reigning Hollywood sirens of the day. Essential viewing for anyone who appreciates the possibilities of cinema.
Vissi d'arte
Of all the Powell/Pressburger collaborations, THE RED SHOES is by far the most famous, and the most beloved. Although it has often been ridiculed for its melodramatic storyline, it's almost impossible to forget it once you've seen it, and it's been an incredibly potent allegory for the conflict of life and art for many people over the decades. As the commentary on this DVD repeatedly points out, its best to understand the film as a fairy tale, like the Hans Christian Andersen ballet at its core and from whence it derives its title. Moreover, Powell and Pressberger treated this almost as an experimental film, and worked almost every trick on it available to them to heighten its effects. It becomes thus almost a textbook case for a film scholar to see the different kinds of effects a film at the time could have in terms of playing with camera speed, double exposure, use of color, etc., and many of the individual shots are not only deservedly famous but seem to derive from minds as creative and playful as Griffith's: the great shot of Vicky's feet racing down the spiral staircase, the whirling pans from her point of view at the Mercury Theatre performance of "Swan Lake," and so on. And then there are the fine performances from Moira Shearer, impossibly lovely as the heroine, and Anton Walbrook as her dashing but fearsome Svengali. It's a one-of-a-kind classic worthy of repetaed reviewings, and the Criterion folk give it all the supplemental material it deserves. The commentary is especially fine, with insightful comments from all manner of different people who either worked on the film (like Shearer, or the great cinematographer Jack Cardiff) or who have loved it over the years (like Martin Scorsese, who counts it as one of his most enormous influences). The restoration of the print is also spectacular, with the Disneyesque primary colors in its basic palette at their richest and most hypersaturated.
"Do you want to live?" "I want to dance."
Never seen Moira in anything before, but I loved her in this. This film has it all: romance, tragedy, comedy...a bit bizarre at times but wonderful nonetheless.