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I remember coming out of an early showing of Heavenly Creatures thinking ‘that Melanie Lynskey, she’s going to be a STAR’. How wrong I was – nowadays the film is best known as the major debut of its other co-star Kate Winslet, and the fact that it was the film that put director Peter Jackson…

Similar themed titles, similar concerns – the world of ballet dancing – but two very different films. The Red Shoes is a gorgeous 1948 story-within-a-story of a young dancer who sells her soul for fame. Beautifully shot and dressed by Brit-film masters Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, it takes Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytale and…