Thanks to Thelma Schoonmaker and La Cinémathèque française

The venerable and revered Cinémathèque française offered us what might be called love in the afternoon this saturday. First of all, we got to watch an incredible high quality Technicolor copy of The Red Shoes (1948) during their Michael Powell retrospective. It was a treat to rewatch it like that, as beautiful and dark as always. And then, we had a little more than an hour with the venerable,…