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...Died. Ivan Mestrovic, 78, intense, Croatian-born sculptor of massive religious works, who in 1947, was honored at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art with the first one-man show of a living artist in the museum's history; of a stroke; in South Bend, Ind., where he was resident sculptor at the University of Notre Dame. A devoted Yugoslav patriot, Mestrovic was jailed by Fascists during World War II, exiled himself when the Communists took over...
These briars, however, have been pruned -or leaped-with resolute skill by a gifted scenarist, Ivan Moffat (Giant), and an astute director, Henry King (The Sun Also Rises). King faced his biggest problem in Actress Jones, and the problem wasn't only age: in recent films the lady has limited her expressions largely to a toneless hysterical laugh and an alarmingly sick tic. But in Night she is well cast as a neurotic, and does her best work in a decade. Moffat for his part firmed up and rounded out the novel's plot and people...
What happened to Dostoevsky's four part masterpiece shouldn't happen to an idiot. First Director Ivan Pyriev and his collaborators at Mosfilm Studios decided to cut the last three-fourths of the novel. Next they relieved Prince Myshkin of his epilepsy, replacing it with a halo. To complete the transformation they added an exaggeratedly romantic, musical score, and put grease on the actors' faces (to make them look involved), and used a color technique that turned flesh into the inside of an orange peel...
There is no denying that each frame of Ivan results from a true genius for design, but that is the trouble. The beauty of each individual shot tends to make the motion picture as a whole somewhat static. Eisenstein hovers ponderously over each of his symmetrical arrangements and seems to say in a very obtrusive voice: "See what a thing of loveliness I have constructed...
...Odessa steps in a millrace of fluidity. Like Rembrandt, Eisenstein ended his career in a vein of classicism, but unlike Rembrandt, he worked in a medium that does not prosper when it gives up movement for stasis and symmetry--even when that symmetry ascends to such sublime heights as Ivan the Terrible, Part...