Since its release in 1948 The Red Shoes has been regarded not only as a British classic, and as perhaps the most widely loved of all of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's collaborations, but as a highlight of world cinema. Its innovative mixture of dance, music, color and light has inspired audiences across the decades. The first comprehensive study of the film that marks the pinnacle of the directors' long and productive relationship, Connelly offers fresh insights into this intriguing work and the characters at the heart of the story: the Svengali-like impresario and the ingénue dancer played by the brilliant Moira Shearer. According to many accounts the most successful British film ever made, it is fitting that The Red Shoes should be celebrated in 2005, the centenary of Powell's birth.
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'(Connelly's) enthusiasm is infectious...'Christopher Wood, Times 2, 10th November 2005FILM INTERNATIONALIn these new studies, Mark Connelly and Sarah Street concisely summarise the films and place them historically.
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Mark Connelly is Senior Lecturer in British History at the University of Kent at Canterbury and is the author of The Charge of the Light Brigade: The British Film Guide 5 (I.B.Tauris).
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If you love the movie 'The Red Shoes', then you would definitely want to add this book to your collection of reference material on the film. It goes into some history on the people who made it & those who were in it, other films made around the same time & their relation to it, how the film was seen then & now, etc. For those interested in information surrounding the making of this film from a variety of angles, this is a must have.
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HAVE NEVER TIRED OF THIS TIMELESS CLASSIC.....I SAW IT THE FIRST TIME WHEN I WAS EIGHT AND I NOW HAVE SEVERAL GRANDCHILDREN...AND IT IS AS FRESH AND AFFECTING NOW AS THEN. I ADD THIS TO MY COLLECTION OF LOVED ARTIFACTS. AND AM HAPPY TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO FIND AND BUY IT. THANKS LYN
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Monte Carlo, Black Narcissus, Canterbury Tale, The Tales of Hoffmann, Ballet Lermontov, Hein Heckroth, Michael Powell, Anton Walbrook, Covent Garden, Jack Cardiff, Chris Challis, Know Where I'm Going, Robert Helpmann, Arthur Rank, Daily Mail, One of Our Aircraft, The Small Back Room, Alexander Korda, Alfred Junge, Brian Easdale, Mercury Theatre, Moira Shearer, The Battle of the River Plate, David Farrar, Emeric Pressburger New!
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Monte Carlo, Black Narcissus, Canterbury Tale, The Tales of Hoffmann, Ballet Lermontov, Hein Heckroth, Michael Powell, Anton Walbrook, Covent Garden, Jack Cardiff, Chris Challis, Know Where I'm Going, Robert Helpmann, Arthur Rank, Daily Mail, One of Our Aircraft, The Small Back Room, Alexander Korda, Alfred Junge, Brian Easdale, Mercury Theatre, Moira Shearer, The Battle of the River Plate, David Farrar, Emeric Pressburger New!
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- The Red Shoes by Michael Powell on 46 pages
- Life and Death (Code Blue) by Sheila Black on 5 pages
- Magic Hour by Jack Cardiff on 4 pages
- Million Dollar Movie by Michael Powell on 4 pages
- Moab Is My Washpot by Stephen Fry in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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