“RESURRECTION”

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 16

“RESURRECTION”

TOLSTOY STORY COMING The life of the ordinary moving picture is considered like that of the mysterious, little-known insect which opens its cocoon in the morning, makes one appearance in the world, and dies before nightfall. At least, this has been the life of the motion picture with very few exceptions until the present. Comes now “Resurrection” from the immortal novel by Count Leo Tolstoy, to refute the aforementioned accepted facts anent the average picture’s life. Carewe immediately qualifies his statement, however, by the preface that “Resurrection” is not an average story. “The time has come,” holds Carewe, “when pictures can be produced at a great expenditure of time and money and with employment of formerly little understood artistry, to achieve unwonted popularity with the moviegoing public. The public has grown mentally picture-wise so that it relishes to-day pictures of such subtle treatment that any suggestion of their production would have caused yesterday’s producer to throw up his" hands in deprecation. “And just as appreciation of subtlety has come, so has there grown in the public an appetite for art and all things artistic—touched, of course, in their central theme, with good, clean, romance. The public not only wants such pictures, but refuses to sup from the pots of ancient hokumish balderdash which rut-enchained producers mistakenly offer them. Because of this growing demand for more artistically produced pictures, I believe the time has come to produce films, which just because they are produced for*a higher sphere of intelligence, can be exhibited not once, as usual, but again and again, for many years.”