Yet The Red Shoes is more than just a timeless monument to the collaborative nature of filmmaking. With Anton Walbrook’s magnetic performance as Lermontov, Powell gives us something else, too – an ...
The two movies have other things in common. The denouement in Powell and Pressburger’s masterful film about art and mortality is the performance of a ballet called “The Red Shoes”, based on Hans ...
Almost a decade since its premiere, Matthew Bourne's double Olivier winner returns to Sadler's Wells this holiday season. Based on Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's 1948 film - itself based on ...