The movie that inspired countless kids to give pliés a chance, The Red Shoes is back in theaters, starting this weekend at New York’s Film Forum, in a new digital restoration that’s been generating buzz since it premiered at Cannes in May. We can think of no film that better deserves the full makeover treatment than this retina-blazing masterwork, which Martin Scorsese calls “one of the most beautiful Technicolor films ever made,” and which you can see a splendid sample of here.
“At first it’s not possible to describe anything beyond a wish or a desire,” begins Wim Wenders’s lyrical 1986 treatment for Wings of Desire, “An Attempted Description of an Indescribable Film.”
“On one level, the angels are pure-hearted documentarians,” Michael Atkinson writes in a new Criterion essay about Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire, available now in DVD and Blu-ray editions.
Emma Thompson “can break your heart just by widening her eyes,” writes the Los Angeles Times critic in his new essay about Howards End, out in a Blu-ray edition.
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