The Red Shoes
Giants, fairies, magicians, ghosts, dragons, and monsters of all kinds… Here’s what your Cinémathèque has in store this summer! Since Méliès, filmmakers have embraced the fanstastic potential of cinema, creating infinite phantasmagorias and extraordinary spectacles where the unreal becomes real. Step into a world of fantasy and boundless imagination: whatever your generation, the monsters and wonders that once filled your childhood dreams are back this summer 2025!
Vicky Page, an aspiring ballerina, is torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to begin a romance with young composer Julian Craster. Performed and danced by Moira Shearer, then a Sadler's Wells dancer, with, among other partners, Léonide Massine, Ludmilla Tcherina and Robert Helpmann, the film's main choreographer.
Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger
The British filmmaking partnership of Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s. Their collaborations—24 films between 1939 and 1972—were mainly derived from original stories by Pressburger with the script written by both of them. Powell did most of the directing while Pressburger did most of the work of the producer and also assisted with the editing, especially the way the music was used. The pair usually shared a writer-director-producer credit for most of their films, a testament to their deep involvement in every project. The best-known of these are The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Canterbury Tale (1944), I Know Where I'm Going! (1945), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Tales of Hoffmann (1951). In 1981, they were recognised for their contributions to British cinema with the BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award, the most prestigious award given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.
