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Just found your channel, 3 years late! Best Years of Our Lives is one of my all time fave movies. I watch it about once a year and cry every time. IMHO it contains some of the most powerful and realistic depictions of true love ever seen in motion pix. Thank you for your insightful comments-helps me enjoy the movies even more! Thanks for doing what you do. Now I’m going to go and check out the rest of your channel. All the best to you!
Thank you for watching The Red Shoes, Scorcese had it shown in cinemas so film students could see it on the big screen. I went to see it with friends, it’s impact was overwhelming, emotionally visually. They brought a dreamlike fairytale quality to the screen in I know where I’m going, it’s in black and white and is magical.
Lermontov doesn't care about what is best for the company. He's a control-freak incel who doesn't have guts enough to make a play for Victoria himself, but resents her falling in love with anyone else.
One very important aspect of Hans Christian Anderson's stories that is not currently fashionable, is that the characters suffer UNTIL they repent and then ascend to heaven. Christianity was HUGE in his time and stories. In the Red Shoes, after the girl sins by coveting the red shoes and ignoring God, and after the shoes are cut off, she is taken in by the church where she works and prays until she is redeemed. Yeah, she dies, but heaven is the best reward-according to Anderson.
Phenomenal movie with some of the best French style ballet either accents of Russian style mixed in. Truly a great ambition to attention to detail took place during the filming process
@Movies With Mia You've got to see the "Alice in Wonderland" ballet by the UK's Royal Ballet Company. It's great! You may have to dig for it, but you can probably find the full version on RU-vid.
I have a reproduction of one the original sherlock books with drawings that adorned some of the pages. You mentioned that you liked it that the last freeze frame of Sherlock jumping turned into a picture. But It looks to me like it's one of the original drawings, so in this case it was the other way around, they took one of the orignal drawings and they had Jeremy imitate the jump drawing at the end. I think these are from the Strand Magazine drawings.
Regarding the long line of red shoes - pointe shoes don't last long. Professional dancers will often modify or break in shoes in specific ways before wearing them for performances, and depending on the difficulty of the role, a pair may only last one performance, or only part of one performance, before "dying" (yes, that's the term used). It is typical for professional dancers to go through multiple pairs per week so they would have needed a large stock. Your comment about the makeup reminding you of the 80s is...accurate, but backwards. 80s fashion took a lot of inspiration from the 40s.
I'm so beyond happy to have found your channel!! I was raised on old movies, they reminded my mom of her mom 💜 It's been so fun to see your reactions and awesome humor 💜My favorite movie when I was 9 was Vertigo, which, growing up in the early 2000s, meant that I really didn't have any friends that would let me pick what we would watch during sleepovers 😅 love, love, love your channel! 💜💜
Hans Christian Anderson didn’t write the ending of the movie. The fairy tale was the story in the ballet. The rest of the story was written by contemporary writers.
Bacall had eyes that haunt you deep in the night, ...if you're lucky. Yet, it wasn't just the eyes that allowed her to stand toe-to-toe with Bogart in four films, it was the strength and acting ability, that shined through the "big screen." Some call it "charisma," or "sex-appeal," but essentially it was simply talent. Either way, you could see it in those beautiful "ganders" of hers. With Bacall, ...the eyes have it.
On her album "The Red Shoes", Kate Bush references Michael Powell in the song "Moments of Pleasure". She had met him in New York shortly before he died to discuss working with him.
Watched this right before putting your reaction on. I wasn't ready for that either! I'm pretty sure ballerinas and actresses took lovers back in the day. Ballerinas, particularly, had short careers and could possibly have a family after it was over. Moira Shearer gave such a good acting performance for someone who hadn't previously been an actress. I hope she was happy with it finally even though it was inaccurate. It's always weird when a movie that is supposed to be showing you something that happens on stage shows you things that can't possibly be shown on stage. Beautiful film. I've been hearing a lot about P&P the last couple of years as they influenced _Good Omens_ (with another film).
Little Virginia Weidler stole the show for me. What a fantastic actress! She also played the wise-cracking little sister to Katharine Hepburn in "The Philadelphia Story" with Cary Grant. I think she "steals" the scene whenever she's on the screen.
This has always been an old favorite movie of mine I even used to have this on video disk at 1 time. I wish I knew how to message you directly because I do have a challenge of a film for you to watch and it's only 14 minutes long and I would love to see your reaction at the end of this film.
The father was sadistic. He got twisted pleasure out of denigrating his daughter. He killed her self-esteem by a thousand little cuts her whole life through. That's why she was so awkward and insecure. But he was slick and hid his malice under an exterior of filial love and concern. Of all the characters in the play, he was the most evil.
I assume that part of the unspoken aspect about the negative reaction about a ballerina getting married is the probability of getting pregnant since birth control was not a reliable option in those times. So, it wasn’t as much that “being in love” was the problem, it was the specter of that love resulting in pregnancy for a female dancer.
As others have commented here, I'm glad you are going down the Powell & Pressburger rabbit hole. Their films are masterpieces. I urge you to check them out.
Oh, please, please, please do more Powell & Pressburger! They are the greatest film-makers in British cinema's history, and my favourite film-makers of all time. It still infuriates me how the British press were so sniffy and dismissive of them and how only the Americans seemed to give them their due. In a way all of Powell & Pressburger's films have something of the fairytale about them. Even their war films are at once mythic, charged and surreal. And that's how they saw the world around them - how many British saw the world around them during the war. It was a time of waking science-fiction where daily life was interupted by robot-bombs and sudden flashes of violent surrealism, captured brilliantly also by the American photographer Lee Miller residing in Britain at the time.This charged combination of dream-like lyricism and hard-edged wartime agency completely bewildered critics at the time who hated P&P and accused them of being pretentious, an unjust accusation as their movies were made with deep feeling. After the war Powell & Pressburger provided a giddy, slightly feverish escape in their beautiful technicolour films which British audiences responded to with a craving to escape post-war austerity. There's a lot of comments (rightly) praising and suggesting Black Narcissus and A Matter of Life & Death, but here are three of my favourites... 1: A Cantebury Tale - Nothing more highlights Powell & Pressburger's obsession with the living fairytale of war-time Britain, while at the same time giving voice to the hopes and fears of the young wartime generation, combined with a love of the countryside and spiritual roots of the nation. A young American sergeant from the mid-west meets up with a young British officer and a land-girl in an attempt to solve a (knowingly rather perverse) local mystery. Through it they eventually walk their own pilgrimage to Cantebury, each to receive a blessing. It's utterly beautiful and the natural charm of US Sgt. John Sweet (who was not a professional actor) completely washes over any flaws in his performance. The film is a little rougher looking owing to budget limitations than the technicolour features, but it has a strange power. Makes you blub a bit at the end. 2: I Know Where I'm Going - Romance based in remote Scotland, again shot through with mysticism. Wendy Hiller is great as the hard-nosed woman who 'knows where she's going', and Roger Livesey is superb as the local penniless Scottish laird with a ridiculously amazing voice. Features Pamela Brown, who for my money is the most beautiful woman who ever lived. 3: The Life & Death of Colonel Blimp - Basically Britain's answer to Citizen Kane, being a generation spanning fictional biopic - only this about someone who's misguided but who has a good soul. Roger Livesey again in the title role, convincingly playing a man both young and old, and also features Deborah Kerr as a repeated motif defining his life and Anton Walbrook, who gives one of the most moving speeches in cinema history. The film looks incredible, as beautiful as The Red Shoes. Fingers crossed you do more P&P! They're up there with Hayao Miyazaki for consistency - and share a bit of his vision too.
I have always admired Powell's films, 'A Matter of Life and Death' being my favourite. There is something about the use of colour in his films which give them an 'otherworldly' quality. It is a little ironic that the film which almost destroyed his career, the psychological thriller, 'Peeping Tom', is now viewed as a cult classic.
Patricia Neal was only 25 in this picture, just 12 years older than the boy who played her son, Billy Grey was 13. Electricity was out for 30 minutes, Mia, you said 1 minute. 28:17 You can see the laces on the front of the suit that makes up Gort's costume, & the strings helping to hold Patricia up, as you mentioned. Lock Martin was actually very weak for his size, he died just 8 years after this movie debuted, he was 42.
21:05 No one wronged him - his life revolves around dance. He allows no space for anything else in his life and he demands that of his company as well. His drive is his overwhelming passion for love.
Probably has nothing to do with the movie, but the actor playing Lermontov I think was Austrian. He was gay and his mother was Jewish. So when the Nazis marched in - he managed to get out in time (first to France and then to England before the nazis arrived in France). But they would have come after him because of his mother even if they didn't know about him being gay. But, even though I know it has nothing to do with the movie, knowing that does sort of add something to his replying to the question of 'Why do you want to live?' 'I don't know exactly but....I must'. you know what I mean?
Lovely film - you should check out anything else by Powell and Pressburger - especially A Matter of Life and Death or The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
I read somewhere that someone said that throughout the war years (this was in England) they'd all constantly been told to die for freedom, and that here suddenly was a film telling them to die for art instead - and that after ten years of hearing the one, the other seemed a much better option.
13:21 If there was red int he dress it would draw attention away from the shoes - the shoes are in fact the real star of the story, right down to the spotlight only focusing on them once 'the Girl' dies.
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you! Not enough people watch this movie!
