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The Red Shoes

February 2024

  • The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp,

    Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger review – Scorsese’s guide to cinema greats

    Martin Scorsese, who helped rescue the British film-makers’ work from obscurity, is the perfect person to discuss their unique and now beloved work

November 2023

  • Dance she must … production design for The Red Shoes by Hein Heckroth.

    The Red Shoes: behind the scenes of the classic Powell and Pressburger film – in pictures

    To tie in with its Powell and Pressburger season, the BFI have mounted an exhibition focussing on the celebrated 1948 ballet movie, drawing on a wealth of material preserved by the BFI National Archive

October 2023

  • A scene from The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp.

    Restoring Powell and Pressburger at the British Film Institute

    Letter: Clyde Jeavons recalls a project that began in the 1980s to restore Technicolor masterpieces such as The Red Shoes

December 2019

  • Liam Mower (Ivan Boleslawsky) and Ashley Shaw (Victoria Page) in The Red Shoes by Matthew Bourne @ Sadler’s Wells (Opening 12-12-19) ©Tristram Kenton 12/19 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Matthew Bourne’s The Red Shoes review – an enchanted evening

    Ashley Shaw makes a triumphant return as doomed ballerina Vicky Page

November 2016

  • Ashley Shaw as Victoria Page in The Red Shoes

    Bourne's supremacy: the blockbuster choreographer puts on The Red Shoes

    He turned Swan Lake into a homoerotic hit. Can Matthew Bourne work his magic on the best dance film ever? He talks toxic love triangles and knighthoods

April 2016

  • Dancer poses with red ballet shoes in her hand

    Brief letters
    Ballerina in The Red Shoes was wrongfooted by return to early hit

    Brief letters: The Red Shoes | Palestine in 1947 | Online trolls | Doonesbury | Train delays | Mixed-up seasons

February 2014

  • Heritage plaque for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

    English Heritage honours London flat that was base for Powell and Pressburger

    British film duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's film company, the Archers, produced classics including A Matter of Life and Death and The Red Shoes

November 2011

  • Reality bites … Hope Davis and Paul Giamatti in American Splendor (2003).

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: Readers' comments – week three

  • Dance of death … Moira Shearer as Victoria Page in The Red Shoes (1948)

    My favourite film
    My favourite film: The Red Shoes

September 2011

  • PINEWOOD

    From the Guardian archive
    75 years of Pinewood Studios

    From The Red Shoes to Bond and Harry Potter, some of cinema's most iconic scenes were shot on its sound stages. As Pinewood marks 75 years in the business, we chart the studio's rise to the pinnacle of British film production

December 2009

  • red-shoes-moira-shearer

    The Red Shoes

    The Red Shoes stands up as one of the greatest British films and a powerful romantic drama, writes Philip French
  • THE RED SHOES [Br 1948] PICTURE FROM THE RONALD GRANT ARCHIVE

    The Red Shoes review – Powell and Pressburger’s ballet classic blazes out of the screen

    A richly colourful restoration shows that the film stands the test of time
  • John Hurt in Who Do You Think You Are?

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly on John Hurt, The Red Shoes and Where the Wild Things Are

    This week, the podcast discusses Jim Jarmusch films with John Hurt, reviews Spike Jonze's Where the Wild Things Are and does a dance of joy for the newly restored The Red Shoes

May 2009

  • Film blog
    Falling in love anew with The Red Shoes at the Cannes film festival

    I've always loved the Powell and Pressburger classic The Red Shoes. The restored version, conserved through the efforts of Martin Scorsese and Thelma Schoonmaker, has made it an absolute marvel

  • Film talk
    Cannes film festival: Scorsese editor Thelma Schoonmaker on restoring The Red Shoes

    Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese editor and widow of Michael Powell, tells Charlotte Higgins how the 1948 masterpiece The Red Shoes was brought back to its luminous best and presented at Cannes

  • Abbie Cornish and Ben Whishaw in Bright Star (2009)

    Charlotte Higgins on culture
    Cannes: Bright Star - and movie heaven

    Charlotte Higgins: Jane Campion's Keats film irritated me with its anachronisms and The Red Shoes showed that class is immortal

April 2009

  • Martin Scorsese in Rome, 2006

    Martin Scorsese to head Cannes Classics

    Director to introduce restored version of Powell and Pressburger's The Red Shoes as honorary president of the Cannes film festival's showcase of rediscovered films

June 2003

  • The missing link

    Before The Red Shoes, Michael Powell shot a short film with Ralph Richardson. It hasn't been seen since - until now. By Xan Brooks

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