The Red Shoes - Pamela Hutchinson (BFI Film Classics) Japanese Adult fairy tale/comedy-drama/ redemption story

Adult fairy tale/comedy-drama/ redemption story set in Manhattan and told with Gilliam's usual visual flair

Inventive monochrome period sci-fi thriller

'Record of a Tenement Gentleman' (1947

Fleisher Camp

of the last living everyday people who participated in the Third Reich

The Red Shoes - Pamela Hutchinson (BFI Film Classics) Japanese Adult fairy tale/comedy-drama/ redemption story'The Red Shoes' by Pamela Hutchinson (BFI Film Classics paperback 112 pages) Pamela Hutchinson's study of 'The Red Shoes' examines its breathtaking use of Technicolour, music, choreography, editing and art direction at the zenith of Powell and Pressburger's capacity for 'composed cinema'. Through a close reading of key scenes, particularly the film's famous extended ballet sequence, she considers the unconventional use of ballet as uncanny spectacle