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Jan 1, 2005 · “The Red Shoes” was made in 1948 by the team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, British filmmakers as respected as Hitchcock, Reed or Lean.
Loosely based on the German fairy tale " Rapunzel " in the collection of folktales published by the Brothers Grimm, the film was directed by Nathan Greno and Byron Howard (in the former's feature directorial debut), and produced by Roy Conli, from a screenplay written by Dan Fogelman.
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Based on Hans Christian Andersen’s folk tale, the plot follows the career of Vicky Page (Moira Shearer) who rises to fame to dance the ballet of The Red Shoes. She falls in love with conductor Julian Craster (Marius Goring), but impresario Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook), fiercely protective of Vicky’s career, forces Julian to resign. Vicky follow...
The Red Shoes is a significant British film in terms of both its melodramatic aesthetic and its representation of shifting gender roles in a post-war economy. While today we may wonder at the extremity of Vicky’s choice, it was very pertinent to British women in the late 1940s who had been mobilised for work for the duration of the Second World War...
[Country: UK. Production Company: The Archers. Directors and Screenwriters: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cinematographer: Jack Cardiff. Editor: Reginald Mills. Music: Brian Easdale. Cast: Moira Shearer (Vicky Page), Anton Walbrook (Boris Lermontov), Marius Goring (Julian Craster), Leonide Massine (Grischa Ljubov).]
Sue Aspinall, ‘Women, Realism and Reality in British Films, 1943–53’, in James Curran and Vincent Porter (eds) British Cinema History, London, Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1983, pp. 272–93. Gail Braybon and Penny Summerfield, Out of the Cage: Women’s Experiences in Two World Wars, London, Pandora Press, 1987. Christine Gledhill (ed.) Home is Where the H...
Drama Mystery Sci-Fi. Four brilliant university students are forced to confront themselves in terrifying ways when their quantum physics experiment leads to an entangled parallel existence that leaves them questioning who they are and what is real. Director. Gaurav Seth.
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Budget. $10 million [2] Box office. $6.5 million [3] The Cobbler is a 2014 American magic realism comedy-drama film directed by Tom McCarthy and cowritten by McCarthy with Paul Sado. The film stars Adam Sandler as a cobbler who finds himself able to assume to the form of anyone by putting on their shoes. The supporting cast includes Cliff ...
Nov 22, 2014 · The Red Shoes: original 1948 Telegraph film review. The painful ending of The Red Shoes is outweighed by the beauty of the ballet sequences, says George Campbell Dixon. Review published in...
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