57-The Red Shoes - Director:Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Cast:Moira Shearer,Anton Walbrook,Marius Goring,Robert Helpmann,Leonide Massine and Albert Basserman.

"I'll watch a Michael Powell film repeatedly, like a piece of music. Like you put on Beethoven —or Mozart. You don't say,‘I've heard the Fifth Symphony, I'm not going to listen to it again."
-Martin Scorsese-


"I fought against being in that film for a whole year, and (Powell) was so angry. He thought I
would sort of fall at his feet and be absolutely thrilled at this great chance. I was just beginning to do the big classics at Covent Garden, which was every classical ballerina's dream, and I didn't want to be deflected by this at all."
-Moira Shearer-


"...we had all been told for ten years to go out and die for freedom and democracy, for this and for that, and now the war was over, The Red Shoes told us to go out and die for art”
-Michael Powell-



Martin Scorsese picks for 'masterful use of light and color' in English speaking films:

-Barry Lyndon-Stanley Kubrick
-Duel in the Sun-King Vidor
-Invaders from Mars-William Cameron Menzies
-Leave Her to Heaven-John M. Stahl
-Moby Dick-John Houston
-Phantom of the Opera (1943)-Arthur Lubin
-The Red Shoes-Michael Powell
-The Searchers-John Ford
-Singin' in the Rain-Stanley Donen
-Vertigo-Alfred Hitchcock