Daily Gusto: Revisting the classics

March 07, 2004

Revisting the classics

Every once and a while, you decide to watch a film you haven't seen in years, one you know is great but has somehow faded in memory. Then, after seeing it again, you wonder why you don't watch it at least once a year.

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes was a movie I had seen over ten years ago, had appreciated at the time, yet I now felt ready to see it again with fresh eyes (especially after having recently seen Black Narcissus for the first time). Here is a film that truly represents everything that cinema can do so well. The performances of Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, and Moira Shearer are full of emotion and charisma. The script is complex yet speaks to the viewer in a near-universal way (even if art is not a major part of your life, everyone must deal with that tug of war between work and personal life). The editing of the "Red Shoes" ballet sequence achieves on film what would be impossible on the stage. This is all clothed in Brian Easdale's wonderful score and Jack Cardiff's remarkable cinematography. Cardiff's work here is some of the most astonishing color photography I have ever seen. Every scene is a wonder, from the aforementioned 12-minute-plus ballet sequence to Shearer and Goring's nighttime carriage ride, the moonlight shimmering on the surface of the ocean, the coach driver nodding off at the reigns.

The beauty of being a film buff is knowing that there is always something new out there waiting to be personally discovered (or, as in this case, rediscovered). Criterion's Red Shoes dvd has clips from many more of the Archers' films. Having seen only four (this, Black Narcissus, The Small Back Room, and Powell's solo Peeping Tom), these snippets really feed into that excitement of exploring those heretofore unseen (by me) works.

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I love this movie.. it's so erotic! Oh, wait. That's "The Red Shoe Diaries." I first sought this movie out after hearing Scorsese mention it about a billion times (does that guy ever leave the darkened theater where he seems to do all his documentary commentary?). It's beautiful.

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I saw The Red Shoes when I first really got into films and rented nearly everything the downtown Roanoke library had to offer. Many Hitchcocks, In Cold Blood, Hiroshima Mon Amour, Jules and Jim... I knew there was more going on than I could understand. I sometimes think that seeing these movies back then planted little seeds in my head that lay dormant until I caught up with them again years later. Seedhead!

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i literally gasped when i read this entry. i saw the red shoes with my mom when i was little. thank you for reminding me of it.

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I'm blaise k.'s mom (can you imagine how lucky that is?), and when I was little, MY mom took me to see the movie. I was absolutely blown away by it, and cried my little eyes out. What an everlasting film it is. I'm sure that if I see it again - and you've inspired me to do so - I will love it as much as I did the two times before (actually I think I saw it more than two times). Maybe blaise k. and I will see it together again.

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