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The Red ShoesOther

by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger

Who uses, recommends or left The Red Shoes, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

3 people

Lana Wilson
American documentary filmmaker; directed After Tiller (2013), which won an Emmy, The Departure (2017), Miss Americana (2020) about Taylor Swift, Look into My Eyes (2024) and the two-part Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields.
loved

I’ve loved The Red Shoes since I first saw it in high school.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Lana Wilson, the entry for The Red Shoes.

2024-10-22·criterion.com ↗

Laura Mulvey
British feminist film theorist and filmmaker whose essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" (1975) introduced the idea of the male gaze; emerita professor of film at Birkbeck, University of London.
loved

But, in common with many other girls at the time and, indeed, ever since, I would choose The Red Shoes as my first formative film.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Laura Mulvey, the entry for The Red Shoes.

2016-01-29·criterion.com ↗

Martin Scorsese
American film director of Taxi Driver, Goodfellas and The Irishman; founder of the Film Foundation, which restores and preserves films.
loved

What is it that’s so special about The Red Shoes? Of course, it’s beautiful, one of the most beautiful Technicolor films ever made; it has such an extraordinary sense of magic—look again at the scene where Moira Shearer is walking up the steps to Anton Walbrook’s villa, especially in the new restoration: it seems like she’s floating on currents of sparkling light and air.

Criterion Collection Top 10 list by Martin Scorsese, the entry for The Red Shoes.

2014-01-29·criterion.com ↗

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