Brand-new shoes
The Red Shoes
The Red Shoes dances onto the screen in a spectacular restored print.
"A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love will never be a great dancer - never," says stern impresario Boris Lermontov to young ballerina Vicky Page.
Based on Hans Christian Andersen's classic fairy tale, The Red Shoes (1948) tells the story of Vicky's rise to success and the inevitable tragic choice she must make between her art and the man she loves.
Winner of two Oscars® and beloved by generations of movie-goers, The Red Shoes is considered a classic of British cinema. Made by the writer-director team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger with choreography by Australian-born Royal Ballet star Sir Robert Helpmann, the film also paved the way for classic song and dance pictures like An American in Paris (1951), Singin' in the Rain (1952), and The Band Wagon (1953).
Now, more than sixty years after its release, The Red Shoes has been lovingly restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive, with support from the British Film Institute and The Film Foundation. A new digitally-restored 35mm print premiered at Cannes in May 2009, presented by director Martin Scorsese, a long time champion of the film.
A key force behind raising money for the restoration, Scorcese first saw The Red Shoes as an impressionable 9-year-old and developed a lifelong appreciation of the film. "Passion drives every extraordinary moment of The Red Shoes and it's what makes the film's glorious Technicolor images so forceful and moving," he says.
Don't miss the opportunity to see this classic film, fully restored for the big screen. The Red Shoes screens in Seniors Cinema from Sat 23 January to Monday 25 January. For details, click here.
Published Tuesday, 19 January 2010
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