Editor’s note: This story contains graphic details of violence. Elina Chauvet’s red shoes are worldly. They’ve been in Milan, Italy, and Grand Rapids, Michigan. Not just one pair, but hundreds — red ...
The best movie I’ve watched all summer long was made in 1948. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s The Red Shoes is a hypnotic dead drop into the psyche of an ambitious ballerina who is ultimately ...
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 ...
The cabaret queen is an uber Karen, reclaiming a woman’s right to stand up for herself and what she desires An excellent question that cabaret goddess and all-round chimerical queen Meow Meow has ...