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This movie rocks. You could actually watch it on mute and just observe the rich color palette and cinematography but then you'd be missing out on Vanessa Redgrave and Jane Birkin's dreamy accents and also the scene at the end where The Yardbirds play noisy rock to a room of stoic 1960's Brits. Also the wardrobe is amazing, people were really dressing back then.
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I'd been hearing about THE RED SHOES for years and never got round to watching it - the picture of Moira Shearer staring, wild-eyed, and so intense, at the camera was captivating and it was always on my radar for that reason. Finally, towards the end of last year, I watched it, and JESUS. It is without doubt one of the best films I have ever seen. Despite being shot in the 40s, it feels so contemporary - the colour, the camera movement - and you can feel its DNA all over so many of the films that came after it. It's also the reason Martin Scorsese wanted to be a filmmaker - he was obsessed by it as a nine year old; it's why he uses red so much. It is, unquestionably, required viewing. It also really disturbs the idea that British cinema is all kitchen sink realism. I love the vision, the ambition. As a British filmmaker myself, I love that this makes me feel seen in our cinematic history.
Jan 19, 2024
oh my god. I went into this thinking yeah yeah fun pretty technicolour Powell & Pressburger postwar ballet film. and it is all of those things. but it is also PERFECT. dramatic and beautiful with queer and feminist overtones/undertones that are so exciting to identify in a 75 year old film and a plot that speaks to anyone caught between art and the conventions of love!! And it has a 17 minute hyperreal ballet sequence through the psyche! genuinely want to scream about it to everyone i’ve ever met
Feb 22, 2024
cannot get this one off me! Gena Rowlands falling apart and having perfect voluminous hair throughout, gallons of J&B scotch. this freako apartment?? amazing.
Sep 16, 2024
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My life is infinitely better without second guessing stuff. I love just firing off a text, a post, whatever. It's like the opposite of self-censorship.
Feb 2, 2024