The Magic Returns
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.
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“An Indescribable Film”
Wim Wenders“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.”
Watch the Skies
Michael Atkinson“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.
All Is Grace
Kenneth TuranEmma 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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