The Red Shoes(1948) Apr 2026

Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1948 masterpiece, The Red Shoes , is a visually spectacular Technicolor film exploring the high price of artistic obsession through the story of ballerina Victoria Page [5.1, 5.7]. Renowned for Jack Cardiff’s cinematography and a 17-minute surrealist ballet sequence, the film is considered a masterpiece of cinema, despite modern critiques regarding the protagonist’s lack of agency [5.7, 5.9, 5.10]. Read the full story at Criterion.