My favorite movie of last year, Black Swan came out on DVD/Blu-Ray today. If I can find the time, I will be posting my full, spoiler filled review of that film later so make sure you watch it check it out. In the meantime, I thought I could whet your appetite for with a double feature of a couple of different dancing movies.
Last year’s Black Swan shares some similarities with the Michael Powell/ Emeric Pressburger Technicolor masterpiece “The Red Shoes” (1948) based on a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale. Moira Shearer stars as ballerina Victoria Page, a very ambitious dancer, destined for stardom. Her disciplinarian director Boris Lermentov demands total devotion to the dance and gets great results from his borderline tyrannical methods. Then Page falls in love with the composer of the ballet that was to seal her destiny for fame and prominence. Making her bed is easy. Finding comfort and solace in it proves to be the real challenge.
Quit acting like you don’t love Herbert Ross’ fancy free classic “Footloose” (1984). Nobody’s that cool…. Not even me. Kevin Bacon (awesome) John Lithgow (way cool) and Chris Penn (brother of cool) star in a small town story that may very well be the greatest analogy of the American Revolution ever told. This film is about religious repression, freedom, love and denim. The main character’s name is Ren. That red squiggly line from the spell-checker proves his irrefutable coolness. If that’s not what the founding fathers were fighting for, we all might as well start bowing to the Queen of England, caring about soccer and watching “Doctor Who.” So pop this VHS in and ‘Let’s Hear It For The Boy.’
Enjoy.
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