Thread: I've got nothing but praise for...'The Red Shoes'

getting nooky in New York with as least effort possible. It did get me a Thanksgiving dinner invite so I guess I skated by p.s. Doc Rozsa, take heed "Your future is all used up..."

I've never had a relationship that didn't have those glitches. Sometimes it was me being obtuse, other times it was him, as in the time a boyfriend wrapped his shoes in a blanket to keep them warm overnight on a camping trip, not realizing that a blanket is warm only if it is wrapped around a living member of the animal kingdom. The wise thing is to be very gentle when these things happen, something I was never able to pull off. No...

I've never seen a print good enough to make me sit through the thing, but I haven't liked what I've seen. I'm sure that's MY fault, and would love to see a Criterion release of it. My pick would be A Matter of Life and Death, which I watched two nights ago and posted about on FG. Got two replies. Should have posted here. I was agog!! I admit that I've never seen Blimp, but I DO own it, and it is in the stack...

I've seen "The Red Shoes" many times and love the movie. Anton Walbrook should have been a bigger star. I wish Moira Shearer had chosen to become a movie star.

It is my favorite of Powell & Pressburger films. For a film released on DVD by Criterion Collection, the quality certainly was bad. I can imagine how beautiful was it would have been if it was seen on first release. Could have rival that of Wizard of Oz. That print is still beautiful nevertheless. This is an enchanting Powell & Pressburger film, an surprising extreme to their "Peeping Tom" which was okay but...

I envy you that experience, Strelnikoff. I saw it on the big screen, during a re-release in the '50's. I loved it, but was to young to remember or appreciate real detail. Nevertheless, I've always considered it to be my favorite film. Now, I have the Criterion Collection DVD, and have enjoyed the Scorsese commentary, along with the re-mastered of the film. I hope that the current theater release plays in San Francisco.

I've only seen it once, albeit as a television broadcast, and it made absolutely no impression on me. In fact, I thought that it was pretty mediocre, visual splendour aside, and it remains my least favourite Powell & Pressburger film to date (but I generally prefer their black and white films anyway). Obviously I'm in the minority, but at least as I can see above, I'm not the only one. Personally, I found the story quite...

Interestingly, the film's rights and ideas were originally owned by Alexander Korda in the 1930s, who intended the film to be a vehicle for Merle Oberon. Merle was to do the acting while a ballerina double was to do the ballet dancing. The project eventually fell through and Korda sold the rights and ideas to rival British film producer J. Arthur Rank. Another favorite actress of mine, the redheaded Hazel Court, was considered for the...