Moira Shearer

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Moira Shearer - what members say

The Red Shoes review by from England

A cinematic wet dream 5 July 2004
...riptwriter Emeric Pressburger it becomes something truly dark and overpowering. Moira Shearer plays a young, obsessive ballet dancer who is forced to choose between her love... Read customer review

A Simple Man review by A customer from Wimbledon, England

Very evocative 10 August 2007
...nside a Lowery painting. Quite a slight story but to see Christopher Gable and Moira Shearer in one of their last roles is wonderful. ... Read customer review

Jack Cardiff - Cameraman on DVD (2010)
Starring: Jack Cardiff, John Mills, Thelma Schoonmaker
Director: Craig McCall
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Jack Cardiff was lauded by the Hollywood greats he photographed films for - John Huston, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe - and described by Michael Powell as "A genius, a daydreamer, a baby. He should have been a painter instead of being the best colour cameraman in the world." Yet ..read more »

76% from 159 members

A Simple Man on DVD (1987)
Starring: The Northern Ballet Theatre, Christopher Gable, BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
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A 1997 performance celebrating the centenary of the birth of the artist L.S. Lowry.

61% from 87 members

Peeping Tom - Blu-ray (1960)
Starring: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Director: Michael Powell
Certificate:
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Michael Powell's controversial meditation on violence and voyeurism effectively destroyed his career when it was first released, but later generations have come to regard it as a masterpiece.

72% from 417 members

Peeping Tom on DVD (1960)
Starring: Carl Boehm, Moira Shearer, Anna Massey
Director: Michael Powell
Certificate:
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Mark Lewis, assistant cameraman at a London film studio, aspiring movie director, part-time taker of pornographic pictures, and amateur documentary film-maker, has begun murdering women. He kills them, literally, with his camera and films the attacks and the murders. He also surrepititiously films ..read more »

66% from 4,781 members

Tales Of Hoffman on DVD (1951)
Starring: Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressbu
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The Powell And Pressburger Collection contains eleven Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell films. Titles in the box set include: 1. A Matter of Life and Death 2. The Red Shoes3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp4. A Canterbury Tale 5. I Know Where I'm Going 6. 49th Parallel 7. Battle of the ..read more »

67% from 204 members

The Red Shoes on DVD (1948)
Starring: Esmond Knight, Ludmilla Tcherina, Marius Goring
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale results in a marked triumph of artistic collaboration and modernity. More ..read more »

71% from 4,762 members

The Red Shoes - Blu-ray (1948)
Starring: Esmond Knight, Ludmilla Tcherina, Marius Goring
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Certificate:
This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale results in a marked triumph of artistic collaboration and modernity. More ..read more »

80% from 30 members
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Jack Cardiff - Cameraman - 4.0 stars
A Simple Man - 3.0 stars
Peeping Tom - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Peeping Tom - 3.5 stars
Tales Of Hoffman - 3.5 stars

Jack Cardiff - Cameraman - 4.0 stars
Peeping Tom - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Red Shoes - 3.5 stars
Tales Of Hoffman - 3.5 stars
Peeping Tom - 3.5 stars

The Red Shoes - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
A Simple Man - 3.0 stars
Peeping Tom - 3.5 stars
Tales Of Hoffman - 3.5 stars
The Red Shoes - 3.5 stars

Robert Helpmann - 5 times - show films
Leonide Massine - 5 times - show films
Marius Goring - 4 times - show films
Anton Walbrook - 4 times - show films
Albert Bassermann - 4 times - show films

Michael Powell - 10 times - show films
Emeric Pressburger - 7 times - show films
Emeric Pressbu - 1 times - show films
Craig McCall - 1 times - show films
Terence Young - 1 times - show films