The Red Shoes
Pamela Hutchinson, Lisa Mullen, Sarah Crompton and Lillian Crawford join Matthew Sweet to look at the career of film-makers Powell and Pressburger ahead of a BFI UK-wide season.
Moira Shearer starred in the 1948 film reworking of a Hans Christian Andersen story written, directed, and produced by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The film, about the tangled relationships between a dancer, composer and ballet impresario, involved a cast involving many professional dancers, and gained five Academy Award nominations including best score for Brian Easdale. As the BFI prepares a UK-wide season of Powell and Pressburger films running from 16th October to 31st December (including a re-release of The Red Shoes), Matthew Sweet is joined by film critics Lillian Crawford, Pamela Hutchinson, dance reviewer Sarah Crompton and New Generation Thinker and film lecturer Lisa Mullen.
Producer: Torquil MacLeod
You can find Matthew Sweet presenting Radio 3's regular strand devoted to film and TV music Sound of Cinema on Saturday afternoons at 3pm and available on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Sounds and a whole host of Free Thinking episodes devoted to classics of cinema are in a collection on the programme website labelled Landmarks including: Jean-Paul Belmondo and the French New Wave, Marlene Dietrich, Dirk Bogarde and the Servant, Bette Davis, Sidney Poitier, Asta Nielsen.
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