The Red Shoes

 

Year: 1948

Time: 134 min.

 

Series: The Criterion Collection

Edition #: 44

Release Date: Tuesday, 14 December 2021

MSRP: $49.95

 

4K UHD + Blu-ray

2 Discs

1.33:1

English PCM Mono 1.0

Subtitles: English

Regions None/A

 

 Introductory restoration demonstration with filmmaker Martin Scorsese   Audio commentary from 1994 by film historian Ian Christie, featuring interviews with actors Marius Goring and Moira Shearer, cinematographer Jack Cardiff, composer Brian Easdale, and Martin Scorsese   Profile of “The Red Shoes,” a 2000 documentary on the making of the film, featuring interviews with members of the production team   Interview with director Michael Powell’s widow, editor Thelma Schonmaker Powell, from the 2009 Cannes Film Festival   Audio recordings from 1994 of actor Jeremy Irons reading excerpts from Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger’s novelization of The Red Shoes and the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale “The Red Shoes”   Collection of rare publicity stills and behind-the-scenes photos   Gallery of memorabilia from Scorsese’s collection   The “Red Shoes” Sketches, a 1948 animated film of Hein Heckroth’s painted storyboards, with the Red Shoes ballet as an alternate angle   Trailer   An essay by critic David Ehrenstein and a description of the restoration by UCLA film archivist Robert Gitt