A former editor of millimeter, the magazine about the technology of making movies, I’ve written about movies for the World and Independent Film Page on About.com. the Kansas City Star and local site KCActive. I’m a guest critic on the independent, foreign and documentary review episodes of Steve Kraske's "Up to Date" on KCUR, the Kansas City NPR affiliate and a former member of the Kansas City Film Critics Circle.

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The Red Shoes (1948)

February 26, 2008

Inspired by the Hans Christian Anderson tale, this Technicolor feast captures the imagination more with the ballet within the movie than the love story frame. What keeps our tragic heroine from dancing when her replacement is the dancer she replaced for those very same reasons? Moral of the story: despite 1980s cliches, toe shoes, especially red ones, are beautiful.