Jan 17, a special day for Moira Shearer and me
January 17 is my birthday. I knew James Earl Jones, Betty White and Benjamin Franklin shared my birthday but I just learned this month that Moira Shearer also was born on Jan. 17.
Have you ever seen the ballet movie, The Red Shoes, her most famous film? I first saw it at the Cinemateque in Nice, France. I lived there 3 months and would go to weekly screenings. She collaborated with Michael Powell, co-director and co-producer of The Red Shoes, in other films including The Tales of Hoffmann and the controversial Peeping Tom as a dancer in both. Red-headed Shearer was one of those women who certainly grew more beautiful with age. She was a ballerina but became more famous as an actress even though her film roles were minimal.
I was surprised at how much I liked “Peeping Tom”. It’s often compared to “Psycho” (also 1960) but I think “Peeping” is more powerful because “Psycho” is so well-known that it seems like people are desensitized to it now. No one has heard of Powell’s movie.
Maybe I should check out other Powell films. I haven’t seen any others.
Et pourquoi tu habitais à Nice pendant trois mois ? Qu’est-ce que tu y faisais ?
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J’ai fait un stagiaire (avec l’argent et logement) dans un hotel. Je ne parle encore bien mais je comprende le francais meilleur. Je voulais ameloir mon francais. Je veux retourner…pas Nice….mais autre ville. On ecoute beaucoup d’anglais a Nice. Antibes est pire.
J’aime aussi Peeping Tom, meilleur que Psycho.
L’actrice qui joue Helen, la femme Tom ne voulait pas tuer, etait en Frenzy.
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