It's frankly inexcusable that movies don't look like this anymore

we gotta stop putting men named boris in positions of power

A ravishing, delicate, painterly, expressionistic, and immaculately sustained work of dreamy poetry and magical flourishes; The Red Shoes is simply one of the great films of all time. Stunning doesn't even begin to describe it. The central ballet sequence is simultaneously one of the scariest and most heartbreaking stretches of cinema ever crafted. To watch it is to have your soul carried as high as cinema can take you. Trust me, take the ride.

Black Swans grandmother

Why great ballet movies are always scary?

this does NOT seem like it was made in the 40’s

Why cut between scenes when you could whip pan instead? Why settle for anything less than Jack Cardiff's camera in Technicolor, with Riviera sunsets pouring into blue-green rooms? Why not model your winged eyeliner after Moira Shearer's? Why choose Art or Love when you could have neither?

the whole world dreamed in black and white until this movie came along and showed those hoes what color really looks like

she lived she served cunt then she died

try to convince me that film isn't the highest form of art lol

the things!!!!!!! we do!!!!!!!!! to!!!!!!!! WOMEN!!!!!!!

"You cannot have it both ways. A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a great dancer. Never."

one of the highest artistic achievements i've ever seen. a complete dream, morphing into a nightmare of identity crises and sacrifice, i was swept away by this the entire runtime. anton walbrook has to be seen to be believed.