Albert Lamorisse’s red balloon is still perfectly, lollipop round in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s The Flight of the Red Balloon, a tribute to (and glorious expansion of) that 1956 children’s classic. Its ...

Jim Brewer has always loved the short fantasy film "The Red Balloon," a silent 1956 production in which a boy follows a red balloon into adventures. Jim said he never expected to re-enact an aspect of ...

The inaugural edition of the Gaza Children’s Film Festival opens Thursday with a screening of Albert Lamorisse’s 1956 Cannes Palme d’Or-winning short classic The Red Balloon. The one-month festival ...

The average, hyperactive, plugged-in modern child is not likely to sit through the 1956 French classic "The Red Balloon" without a lot of fussing and whining. This almost legendary film, aimed at ...