The Red Shoes

“I want to talk about The Red Shoes. Black Narcissus and this, to me, are the pinnacles of color narrative. And Red Shoes is a parable of the passion of the arts destroying us all.”

“Scorsese would be very upset with me if I don't grab one of his favorite films of all time, The Red Shoes, that he helped restore I believe and it was him that told me to see it for the first time and I did, so there's a story.”

“The Red Shoes! I’ve been thinking about The Red Shoes for a long time. I was thinking about it on "Dance Fever" in terms of, like, it was a record almost about dancing yourself to death. But also as a performer, just a sense that you are in the search for perfection and for perfection in Performance, that you would do anything. The brutality of Performance, what you put your body through, the madness of it, the kind of tragedy of it, I feel like this film, it sort of encapsulates that.”

“I am picking first The Red Shoes. I kind of have a special story about this one because I was lucky enough– I worked with Francis Ford Coppola when I was... Gosh, I was young, maybe thirteen, and he knew that I did ballet. And we shot this film with him, it was called Twixt... He showed me The Red Shoes for the first time. And I was, like, engulfed in the film and loving it, and I heard something and I looked over and he was asleep. He was snoring. So this is for Uncle Francis.”

“I would like to start with the movie that inspired me to want to become a Rockette, which unfortunately I didn’t get around to doing. But I loved Moira Shearer in this exotic, bizarre, artistically over-the-top, colorful, extreme, wonderful story, and it’s called The Red Shoes. It’s just a fantasy of raw…...”

“The Red Shoes. This film I saw when I was four, and it’s really about a woman who’s had to choose between her art and her love. And she couldn’t make that choice, so… then you just have to see the movie if you haven’t. Anyway, I love this movie so much. So definitely The Red Shoes.”

“Well this is one that by all obvious points I should have seen this film. I know it's one of the great films ever made. I know that when we did Black Swan, this was—we were doing the tutus and stuff for that movie—it was one of the things that clearly we should have watched. My sister has seen it millions of times and for whatever reasons I haven't. This will probably be the first one that I watch. It is embarrassing that I haven't seen it.”

“I have selected first The Red Shoes. I have such fond memories of this film. I have a dance background, ballet background, and the metaphor in the movie, the passion for the craft and the art, and how it can drive you insane or like to, you know, desperate, desperate lengths, and so... I won’t talk about The Red Shoes for the whole thing, but we have to move on.”

“So this movie right here is The Red Shoes. No movie reminds me of my life more than The Red Shoes and what I mean by that is this was my Mother's favorite movie ever made. It was the first time that I saw like that a movie could be nutritional value to someone... It was more than a movie what she got from it was I don't know what it was but as a little kid I remember thinking like that's not happening at a lot of other kids houses.”

“Red Shoes is one of my favorite Technicolor films. It's one of like the weirder, darker films that I've seen captured on Technicolor. When I was shooting Barbie, Greta was shooting on a custom color cast which was on the slate called 'Techno Barbie,' which I loved. She wanted to recreate the look and feel of Classic Hollywood studio Technicolor and for Technicolor, I think this is as good as it gets.”

“I'm trying to get The Red Shoes out. The Red Shoes is, I don't know, maybe if I had to pick one film above all films, it would be The Red Shoes. This is reassuringly heavy so I think there must be a really good notebook in this one.”

“The Red Shoes para mi mamá es su película favorita...”