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The red shoes
Title:
The red shoes
ISBN:
9781604652895
Edition:
Special ed.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : The Criterion Collection, c2010.
Physical Description:
2 videodiscs (134 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (24 p. : col ill. ; 19 cm.)
General Note:
Based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Originally released as a motion picture in 1948.

Booklet features an essay by critic David Ehrenstein and a description of the restoration by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt.

Special features: audio commentary by film historian Ian Christie, including interviews with Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Jack Cardiff, Brian Easdale and Martin Scorsese; audio of actor Jeremy Irons reading excerpts from Powell and Pressburger's novelization of The Red shoes and from Hans Christian Anderson's original fairy tale (in English); Profile of The red shoes, a documentary on the making of the film; video interview with Michael Powell's widow, editor Thelma Schoonmaker Powell; Martin Scorsese's collection of Red shoes memorabilia; publicity and production stills; "The Red shoes sketches" (an animated film of Hein Heckroth's painted storyboards) with a comparison to The Red shoes ballet; original theatrical trailer; Powell and Pressburger filmography, with film clips and stills; theatrical trailer.
Contents:
disc 1. Feature film -- disc 2. Bonus features.
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Summary:
Centers on the dilemma of a young ballerina torn between the composer who loves her and the impresario determined to fashion her into a great dancer.
System Details:
DVD, REGION 1, NTSC, FULL SCREEN PRESENTATION (1.33:1) PRESENTATION; DOLBY DIGITAL MONO.
Language Note:
SUBTITLES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING.
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