THE RED SHOES / New 35mm restoration!
ONE WEEK ONLY!
Friday, April 23rd - Thursday, April 29th
ADMISSION: $6.00 general; $4.75 Loft members
Newly restored 35mm film print!
"This is essential viewing -- a film like few others." - Manohola Dargis, THE NEW YORK TIMES
"An epiphany! What Capital-C cinema looks like in its purest form!" - David Fear, TIME OUT NEW YORK
"Awash in sumptuous color and music - one of the most eye-popping and heartrending melodramas ever made. No flatscreen TV will ever do it justice - see it in the theater." - David Edelstein, NEW YORK MAGAZINE
"Truly one of the most beautiful Technicolor films ever made!" - MARTIN SCORSESE
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 Technicolor classic of artistic passion dances back onto the big screen in a gorgeous, newly restored 35mm film print!
Based on Hans Christian Andersen's tale of magic ballet slippers whose wearer cannot stop dancing, THE RED SHOES spins the gripping story of a beautiful young ballerina's rise to the lead role in a ballet version of the well-known story. Fledgling ballerina Victoria (Moira Shearer) falls in love with brilliant composer Julian (Marius Goring) while they collaborate on a ballet that makes her a star. But overbearing company owner Boris (Anton Walbrook), jealous of their love, fires Julian and forbids Victoria from performing. Julian and Victoria wed, and his career takes off, but she longs for an opportunity to dance. When Boris makes an offer, she faces a heart wrenching choice.
As co-director Michael Powell noted of the film's role in a post–World War II free world, "For 10 years we had all been told to go out and die for freedom and democracy; but now the war was over, and The RED SHOES told us to go out and die for art." A true movie landmark in both style and themes, THE RED SHOES has become a touchstone to cineastes, lovers of dance and filmmakers ranging from Vincente Minnelli to Martin Scorsese (who spearheaded this new restoration). Its astounding production design, music and choreography, and its shockingly sumptuous color palette and revolutionary treatment of dance on film now may be rediscovered and savored anew on the cinema screen.
This new 35mm print debuted at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
READ MANOHLA DARGIS' REVIEW OF THE NEWLY RESTORED "RED SHOES" FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/movies/06redshoes.html?_r=2&ref=movies
READ MARTIN SCORSESE'S THOUGHTS ON "THE RED SHOES:"
http://www.indiewire.com/article/scorsese_on_the_red_shoes_its_cinema_as...