The Red Shoes (#44) (Criterion Collection)[USA]

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Release Date: July 20, 2010
Purchase: Amazon

United Kingdom
1948
133 minutes
Color
1.33:1
French, English

The Red Shoes, the singular fantasia from Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, is cinema’s quintessential backstage drama, as well as one of the most glorious Technicolor feasts ever concocted for the screen. Moira Shearer is a rising star ballerina torn between an idealistic composer and a ruthless impresario intent on perfection. Featuring outstanding performances, blazingly beautiful cinematography by Jack Cardiff, Oscar-winning sets and music, and an unforgettable, hallucinatory central dance sequence, this beloved classic, now dazzlingly restored, stands as an enthralling tribute to the life of the artist.

Disc Features:

1. New high-definition master from the award-winning 2009 digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray edition
2. Introductory restoration demonstration with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
3. Audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie, featuring interviews with stars Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and Scorsese
4. Profile of “The Red Shoes,” a documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team
5. Video interview with director Michael Powell’s widow, Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival, in which she discusses Powell, the film, and the restoration
6. Audio recording of actor Jeremy Irons reading excerpts from Powell and Pressburger’s novelization of The Red Shoes
7. Collection of rare publicity stills and behind-the-scenes photos
8. Gallery of items from Scorsese’s personal collection of The Red Shoes memorabilia
9. The “Red Shoes” Sketches, an animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle
10. Audio recording of Irons reading the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Red Shoes”
11. Theatrical trailer
12. PLUS: A booklet featuring a new essay by critic David Ehrenstein and a description of the restoration by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt

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[Holly Go]

It looks really nice...maybe i will get that for christimas.. but if i get that i have to get 8 1/2...

 

[Horhay]

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