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...film studio near London, 526 years after Joan of Arc was burned at the stake, realism-bound Producer Otto (The Moon Is Blue) Preminger sought to restage the event, almost succeeded. Shooting the burning scene for his movie version of Shaw's Saint Joan, Preminger watched happily as his fledgling star, young (18) Iowa-born Jean Seberg, mounted a pile of faggots and was duly chained to the stake. Soldiers lighted the faggots and Jean's eyes rose with the flames. Suddenly, before a dummy could replace the lady not for burning, a gas pocket, fed by hidden...
Westerns, including occasional installments of Earp, manage to be puerile, but they try to buttress the ancient shootin' ridin' formula with realism, characterization, historical trappings...
...Tour's style, De Young Director Walter Heil says: "It is almost an abstract realism." Wrote French Critic Andreé Malraux: "No other painter, not even Rembrandt, can so well suggest that vast, elemental stillness; La Tour alone is the interpreter of the serene that dwells in the heart of darkness...
Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture enthusiast. Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov...
Taking note of the hubbub, Moscow's Literary Gazette also came out boldly in favor of nudes, preferably female. "Hypocrites and doctrinaires and art administrators have tried with enviable success to drive this undying motif, which inspired so many great realists, from the sphere of painting in Socialist realism as 'immoral.' Glazunov cannot but be praised for the boldness with which he broke this stupid taboo and brought back to art an earthy delight and poetry of feeling." As a followup, Moscow Radio's English broadcast quoted Critic Anatoly Chlemov deploring the view that "just about...