THE RED SHOES
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
Now that TCM has begun televising imaginatively paired double features (The Dirty Dozen and Kelly’s Heroes), I keep daydreaming about other possibilities. Tonight, for example, TCM leads off prime time with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s gorgeous 1948 movie, The Red Shoes. Moira Shearer stars as an ambitious ballerina swept by dueling desires and supernatural forces – and what a great opening act it would make for a double feature, followed by Natalie Portman in 2010’s similarly themed Black Swan.