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October 29, 2025… #movieoftheday is The Red Shoes (full movie) (1948).
“ The Red Shoes is a 1948 British dance, drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger . It follows Victoria Page ( Moira Shearer ), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov ( Anton Walbrook ), who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose between her career and her romance with composer Julian Craster ( Marius Goring ). It marked the feature film debut of Shearer, an established ballerina, and also features Robert Helpmann , Léonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina , other renowned ballet dancers. The metafictional plot is based on the 1845 fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen and features a ballet within it by the same title, also adapted from the Andersen work...
“Upon release, The Red Shoes received critical acclaim, especially in the United States, where it received a total of five Academy Award nominations, including a win for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction . It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and was named one of the Top 10 Films of the Year by the National Board of Review . Despite this, some dance critics gave the film unfavorable reviews as they felt its fantastical, impressionistic centerpiece sequence, influenced by German expressionist cinema of the 1920s, depicted ballet in an unrealistic manner...
“Retrospectively, The Red Shoes is regarded as one of the best films of Powell and Pressburger's partnership and one of the greatest films of all time. It was voted the ninth greatest British film of all time by the British Film Institute in 1999. The film underwent an extensive digital restoration beginning in 2006 at the UCLA Film and Television Archive to correct significant damage to the original negatives. The restored version of the film screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was subsequently issued on Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection . In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the fifth best British film ever.” - more at Wikipedia
The Red Shoes’ success heavily influenced dance sequences in the movie An American in Paris (1951) directed by Vincent Minnelli.
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiRpVyeiTSE
#TheRedShoes #tangled #Wikipedia
“ The Red Shoes is a 1948 British dance, drama film written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger . It follows Victoria Page ( Moira Shearer ), an aspiring ballerina who joins the world-renowned Ballet Lermontov, owned and operated by Boris Lermontov ( Anton Walbrook ), who tests her dedication to the ballet by making her choose between her career and her romance with composer Julian Craster ( Marius Goring ). It marked the feature film debut of Shearer, an established ballerina, and also features Robert Helpmann , Léonide Massine and Ludmilla Tchérina , other renowned ballet dancers. The metafictional plot is based on the 1845 fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen and features a ballet within it by the same title, also adapted from the Andersen work...
“Upon release, The Red Shoes received critical acclaim, especially in the United States, where it received a total of five Academy Award nominations, including a win for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction . It also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and was named one of the Top 10 Films of the Year by the National Board of Review . Despite this, some dance critics gave the film unfavorable reviews as they felt its fantastical, impressionistic centerpiece sequence, influenced by German expressionist cinema of the 1920s, depicted ballet in an unrealistic manner...
“Retrospectively, The Red Shoes is regarded as one of the best films of Powell and Pressburger's partnership and one of the greatest films of all time. It was voted the ninth greatest British film of all time by the British Film Institute in 1999. The film underwent an extensive digital restoration beginning in 2006 at the UCLA Film and Television Archive to correct significant damage to the original negatives. The restored version of the film screened at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and was subsequently issued on Blu-ray by The Criterion Collection . In 2017, a poll of 150 actors, directors, writers, producers and critics for Time Out magazine saw it ranked the fifth best British film ever.” - more at Wikipedia
The Red Shoes’ success heavily influenced dance sequences in the movie An American in Paris (1951) directed by Vincent Minnelli.
FULL MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiRpVyeiTSE
#TheRedShoes #tangled #Wikipedia
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