The two movies have other things in common. The denouement in Powell and Pressburger’s masterful film about art and mortality is the performance of a ballet called “The Red Shoes”, based on Hans ...

Give a girl the right shoes and she can conquer the world, or so they say. When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard. Dazzled by a ...