DAILY CALL SHEET: MAY 9, 2024

The Red Shoes (1948) A ballerina is torn between her obsession to live only for dance and her newfound love for a young composer, mirroring the dilemma faced by the heroine in the Hans Christian Andersen inspired ballet in which she stars. One of the few entries in Danny Peary's Cult Movies I've inexplicably avoided for decades, foolishly so. A deserved cult classic with an ending that, while not entirely unexpected, goes much, much harder than the subject matter would imply.

TIL: Dance historian Jennifer Homans claims the Church used to excommunicate ballet dancers in the mid-1600's, which given the Church's hot and cold relationship with dancing over the centuries isn't all that implausible. Regardless of whether that happened or not, though, the book of Sirach does warn young men to be wary of (depending on your translation) female dancers/singers, presumably because those women tend to rate higher on the hot/crazy matrix.

I HAVE SOME NOTES: More things that popped in my head during  my daily Scripture readings.