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Disc #1 -- Red Shoes
Restoration Deomonstration
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Scorsese: Color
Ballet In Britain
Brian Easdale
Moira Shearer: Casting
Symmetry and Seduction
Tchérina and Helpmann
Sir Thomas Beecham
A Dancer's Point of View
Massine
Obsessive Characters
Dance On Film
Enchanted Riviera
Scoring the Red Shoes Ballet
A Chorus Line
Cine-Ballet
"Art is Worth Dying For"
Montage Sequences
"I Make Films For Myself"
The Film War
Smashing the Mirror
The Gothic Tradition
Andersen's Text
The Big Dramatic Scene
The Spiral Staircase
A Folktale About Art
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The Red Shoes Novel
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Theatrical Trailer
Disc #2 -- Red Shoes
Profile of "The Red Shoes"
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Thelma Schoonmaker Powell
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Stills Gallery
Cast and Crew
Filming In London
Filming In Paris
Filming In Monte Carlo
Deleted Scenes
Production and Costume Designs
Scorses's Memorabilia
"The Red Shoes" Sketches
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Disc #1 -- Red Shoes
1. Opening Credits [3:39]
2. Musicians and Balletomanes [3:45]
3. Heart of Fire [4:45]
4. Lady Neston's Party [4:23]
5. "A Matter of Very Great Importance" [4:04]
6. Covent Garden, Backstage [7:25]
7. Natural Ambitions [5:12]
8. The Mercury Theatre [3:18]
9. Paris [2:29]
10. The Story of "The Red Shoes" [3:05]
11. Irina is Finished [2:53]
12. An Invitation [5:39]
13. Julian Scores [3:52]
14. "Nothing But the Music" [7:23]
15. The Red Shoes Ballet [4:45]
16. "You Will Do the Dancing" [16:09]
17. The Great Roles [5:19]
18. Grischa's Birthday Party [3:51]
19. Departures [6:59]
20. Lermontov's Reflection [8:30]
21. Sleepless Nights [7:56]
22. "Dance For Us Again" [4:30]
23. The Struggle For Vicky [2:46]
24. Vicky's Last Dance [5:31]
25. End Credits [4:42]
1. Russian Impresarios [3:39]
2. "The Gods" [3:45]
3. Public Execution [4:45]
4. The Most Important Man [4:23]
5. "Dear Mr Lermontov" [4:04]
6. The Great Boronskaja [7:25]
7. "From the Beginning, Please" [5:12]
8. Ballet Rambert [3:18]
9. Six Foolish Virgins [2:29]
10. A Young Composer's Dream [3:05]
11. "You Cannot Have it Both Ways" [2:53]
12. Monte Carlo [5:39]
13. "Change Everything!" [3:52]
14. Lermontov's Creed [7:23]
15. The First Night [4:45]
16. "It Was . . . Good" [16:09]
17. Two Vicky's [5:19]
18. A Little Romance [3:51]
19. "Send Craster to Me" [6:59]
20. The Telegram [8:30]
21. Lady Neston [7:56]
22. "I'm Always Looking For Great Dancers" [4:30]
23. The Spider and the Fly [2:46]
24. "Wait For Me!" [5:31]
25. End Credit Music [4:42]
Features
Introductory restoration demonstration with filmmaker Martin Scorsese
Audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie, featuring interviews with stars Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and scorsese
Audio recording of actor Jeremy, Irons reading excerpts from Powell and Pressburger's novelization of the red shoes
Theatrical trailer
Profile of "the red shoes," a documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team
Video interview with director Michael Powell's widow, editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell, from the 2009 cannes film festival, in which she discusses Powell, the film, and the restoration
Collection of items from Scorsese's personal collection of the red shoes memorabilia
"The Red Shoes" sketches, an animated film of Hein Heckroth's painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle
Audio recording of irons reading the original hans Christian Andersen fairy tale "The Red Shoes"
Art Director - Arthur Lawson
Art Director - Hein Heckroth
Camera Operator - Christopher G. Challis
Choreography - Robert Helpmann
Cinematographer - Jack Cardiff
Composer (Music Score) - Brian Easdale
Costume Designer - Hein Heckroth
First Assistant Director - Sydney Streeter
Makeup - Ernest Gasser
Makeup - Eric Carter
Musical Direction/Supervision - Thomas Beecham
Short Story Author - Hans Christian Andersen
Sound/Sound Designer - Gordon K. McCallum
Sound/Sound Designer - Charles Poulton
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 film THE RED SHOES was, for nearly four decades, the most successful British movie ever released in America. Movies had used ballet as a subject before -- including a pair of Hollywood bombs, "Spectre of the Rose", which had the virtue of being bizarre and humorous, and The Unfinished Dance, which was itself a remake of a pre-World War II French film called "Ballerina" -- but the public had mostly ignored them. THE RED SHOES, by contrast, seemed to draw audiences into its spell, virtually one theater at a time. In New York, it played to sell-out crowds at a single theater in Manhattan for almost two years before going into wide release, by which time word of the film had spread sufficiently to make it a hit throughout the country. Powell described attending THE RED SHOES as a ritual for middle-class mothers and their daughters, although it was sufficiently well-known by 1949 to rate an oblique mention in a Three Stooges short, ""Some More of Samoa"." The movie had started life as a proposed screenplay, written by Pressburger for Merle Oberon before World War II, which never saw production -- the intervening war and its aftermath led to a major change in its focus, from romantic melodrama to art. Powell and Pressburger sincerely believed that having spent four years dying in the name of freedom and liberty, the world was ready to see a movie that suggested it was now alright to die in the name of art. The public (outside of England, where critics panned the movie and it closed very quickly) responded in kind, in what was the first huge "art-house" success in postwar cinema. ~ Bruce Eder, Rovi
Michael Powell : Best British Film - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1948
Emeric Pressburger : Best British Film - British Academy of Film and Televisio, 1948
Brian Easdale : Best Original Score - Hollywood Foreign Press Association, 1948
Arthur Lawson : Best Color Art Direction - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1948
Hein Heckroth : Best Color Art Direction - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1948
Brian Easdale : Best Drama or Comedy Score - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1948
Reginald Mills : Best Editing - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1948
Emeric Pressburger : Best Story - Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sc, 1948
