Where epics deal in types, novels depict individuals; where epics deliver action, novels provide motives and psychology.
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But it's an apt expression nonetheless, seeing that this month heralds the arrival of several great records, from smoothed-out R&B epics to artfully calibrated pop-romps to indie-rock epics.
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From the beginning calling my films trash epics and everything.
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Art is about creating those spaces evident in Lucan's epics.
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What if you're not usually a fan of fantasy epics?
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But no one has the time to stomach epics anymore.
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The guy is the M. Night Shyamalan of cheesy, romantic epics.
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As Ms Sarkar observes: "The epics have always been in fashion."
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There's also a finale that pokes fun at Asian combat epics.
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Homer often refers to "the wine-dark sea" in his epics.
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I've always loved the cinema, especially the great sweeping historical epics.
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I'm fine with anything from haiku to limericks, just no epics.
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Even in big, shooty space epics, Turians and Krogans need their downtime.
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The story is once again intertwined with literary epics and grand allegory.
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She understood that Nebraska had already given her the stuff of epics.
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Moviegoers have also generally ignored sword-and-sandal epics in recent years.
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MADRID Teatro Real It's a season of epics at the Teatro Real.
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"The epics may or may not have a historical kernel," she said.
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These two-hour long epics, complete with awesome special effects, feed the imagination.
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This gave the epics of the 1950s and '60s their truly epic quality.
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All are tagged with a number — for example, "Epics" is category No. 52858.
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Two minutes later [To Inara]: UR SUCKING SOMEBODYS DICK TO GET THOSE EPICS.
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So swerve the hour-long Fela Kuti epics unless you absolutely have to.
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But those who did go could view lush epics with color and sound.
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The greatest of the Hindu epics, the Ramayana, was written by a Dalit.
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"The 'Mahabharata' is an epic of all epics," Shetty said in a statement.
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The seal stone's possible relevance to the Homeric epics is intriguing but elusive.
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Stop-motion animation Lego epics with all characters dressed in toilet paper costumes.
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From there, I moved on to adventure stories, crime, romance and historical epics.
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But Ren displays a set of emotions rarely seen in science fiction / fantasy epics.
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But, those epics' network sibling, Barry, is the stealthy Emmys darling of the year.
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These are standard stories of epics, ignoring the masses with whom these men fought.
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He's gone on to star in failed Westerns, spy remakes, fantasies, and historical epics.
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Your epics about first contact with aliens—they always start with the little details.
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People look for escape in your music, in the heroic epics and grand fantasies.
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In New Orleans they were like the Def Jams and Epics and all that.
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Maybe war epics make you cry, and 1917 is your version of a sext.
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Gears of War 4 has the unenviable job of following a trilogy of war epics.
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Watch It If You Like: Meticulously researched historical epics like Babylon Berlin and Mad Men.
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Imax has built its business on superhero blockbusters, frenetic action movies and visually stunning epics.
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The most popular fantasy epics tend to focus on a quest the audience agrees on.
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She made religious epics and documentaries, never hesitating to expand into new or provocative domains.
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I've said nothing of the sweets in Istanbul, about which numerous epics could be written.
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So the oral tradition that led to the Homeric epics perhaps stretched over seven centuries.
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Lose yourself in Tiny Love Stories, five reader-submitted epics told in under 100 words.
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The trailer makes it look like a promising antidote to the usual Marvel and DC epics.
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Never short on epics, four of the songs clock in at over six minutes in length.
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Most of Frail Hands' songs barely crack the minute mark but somehow feel like devastating epics.
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Luc Besson — the director behind The Fifth Element — returns to sci-fi epics this summer with Valerian.
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In some fantasy epics, you'll see a creator build a world and let the story play out.
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The Core by Peter V. Brett — August 15th Not all long-awaited fantasy epics are years overdue.
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Regardless, just think, your DNA essentially contains ancient scrolls with evolutionary epics waiting to be read. [eLife]
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Albert Camus considered Blood Dark one of the few French novels to rival the great Russian epics.
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The later Mycenaean period is the setting for Homer's epics and such heroes as Agamemnon of Mycene.
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These were the epics of their day, complex, story-driven experiences that are best enjoyed in prolonged sessions.
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That is, it has abandoned the kind of middlebrow historical epics that used to be a shoo-in.
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But that one shot also encapsulates why the Russos are so well suited for directing Marvel's biggest epics.
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It seems like no accident that the title is shared with one of the Western world's great epics.
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Some of the slick incorporation of abbreviations — WW II EPICS, NAOH, OD ON — reminded me of a cryptic.
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Novels abolished the power that unpredictable events had held in epics, fables, and other, older forms of storytelling.
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He said he had tried to interest Mr. Scorsese in the project by comparing it to biblical epics.
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Historical epics like Glittering Hours and The Wicked Redhead are so rich you could get lost in them.
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Various Marvel superheroes have already teamed up in crossover epics like The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron.
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Working on console epics was a much more time-intensive experience that required long hours of research and translation.
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Movies that broke the traditional summer movie mold — from singular epics to thoughtful comedies — were remarkably good as well.
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But it still makes clear choices that emulate Biblical epics — something director Matt Reeves told Entertainment Weekly was intentional.
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We watched Biblical epics, because I really felt like this movie had to have a Biblical aspect to it.
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And so, our mainstream literature of migration (Eugenides's Middlesex, the Homeric epics) has tended to focus on the journey.
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But the finished movie had a lushness and grace that recalled Technicolor epics, albeit with a haunted, modern edge.
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Dizi are often adapted from Turkish literary classics and are sweeping epics that run over two hours per episode.
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From the 20s through the 50s, Hollywood produced a string of biblical epics like The Ten Commandments and Ben Hur.
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It's a serif typeface that's appeared on everything from Shakespearean epics like Titus to gory flicks like The Human Centipede.
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For example, instead of talking about epics, we have Projects that help track larger feature work or tracks of work.
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There are comedies and crime stories, historical epics and slices of ordinary life, socially conscious dramas and sublimely silly comedies.
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"The Odyssey," of course, is one — of the two Homeric epics it's the one that students tend to enjoy more.
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Like all epics the "Aeneid" is self-consciously encyclopedic, with a barrage of names and epithets that challenge any translator.
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In recent years, HBO has struggled to select the point in the story where its big, serialized epics should begin.
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Resilient epics are not static, they must evolve with significant events but also with the changing demographics of the population.
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In 1993, it bought the bankrupt Japanese film studio Nikkatsu, known for output like samurai epics and soft-core pornography.
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Of course, "slight" for these guys still means "15-minute instrumental epics, split into movements" so some things never change.
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Jacques Cousteau turned the form into a tool for environmental advocates in the 220s, with maritime epics like The Silent World.
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It seems to draw on fantasy epics as much as films like Saving Private Ryan — and that twist is vintage Nolan.
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It's altogether different from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings or George R.R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire epics.
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Epics look outward, at the fate of nations and the sweep of history; novels delve into the fabric of everyday life.
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The followup to Shadow of the Colossus, which came out in 2005, aims to strike the same tier of muted epics.
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She had planned to stay away from epics for a while, but kept thinking about the witch, alone on her island.
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These quick-hit games contain more raw, memorable emotional moments than half of the 80-hour open-world epics out there.
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Of course, those studio epics are still being made, as a commercial for the "Ben-Hur" remake with Morgan Freeman proved.
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Fantasy epics in general tend to do very well globally, and Warcraft specifically is already breaking ticket presales records in China.
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It's a treat to find, in the opening pages of some of these epics, the forked brackets of a fictional genealogy.
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The series is arguably the best documentary series Burns has made since his initial epics on the Civil War and baseball.
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So they make zillions of superhero films, or biblical epics, or World War II dramas, or animated movies starring talking animals.
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This type of political satire prefigured his use of montage in historical epics like Battleship Potemkin (1925) and Alexander Nevsky (1938).
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Rosie Collins/Columbia Pictures The success of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ in 2004 renewed Hollywood's interest in Biblical epics.
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If you like dragons, if you like epics, if you can make it through 800 pages, then you need to read it.
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Many of his early films ran afoul of government censors, which had fewer problems with the patriotic undertones of his action epics.
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The moment was ripe for socially engaged cinema—and it was not quite coming from Bollywood's lavish historical epics of the time.
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Using a mobile network to stream endless Bollywood epics would until recently have been an unthinkable luxury, even in the rich world.
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It all feels very progressive, a reasonable-seeming sidebar to the space epics and sci-fi novels we've absorbed into our unconscious.
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It has something to say, and says it with a cinematic sensibility that's uncommon in most movies, let alone big-budget epics.
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The latter's harrowing twelve-minute epics do sound like the soundtrack to the former's social policies: babies crying, mass plagues, general anguish.
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China's film industry has long been focused on propaganda-laden historical epics, hence the need for a full-size Forbidden City replica.
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The movement rewrote history, drawing on folklore such as that of Brothers Grimm, medieval epics and a dedication to racial white supremacy.
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Kendrick Lamar can weave stories from every point of his life into autobiographical epics that challenge us to face our own demons.
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In the best fantasy epics, talk of war and ongoing conflicts is table dressing, an exciting backdrop for a story about people.
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Since then, more than 30 million copies have been sold, making it one of the most widely read fantasy epics in history.
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Imagine a frame of film from "Lawrence of Arabia," shot in 65 millimeter, which became the gold standard for wide-screen epics.
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Where Sterne's "Tristram" digresses to prevent plot from happening, "CoDex 1962" sows plot upon plot, in the tradition of epics and sagas.
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These EPs took all the core components of Burial's first two albums and radically reconfigured them into sweeping, if still impressionistic, epics.
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These stories make rape seem removed from our everyday world, like this kind of violence only happens in fantasy epics or psychosexual thrillers.
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From 1956 on, he had paid me $500 a month to churn out epics of the spaceways for him on a contract basis.
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Sotheby's brought back its online sale of Original Film Posters, including a selection of old-school blockbusters, sci-fi, epics, and animation classics.
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Not so long ago, historical epics like "Roots" and "The Winds of War" were perennials at the top of the best-seller lists.
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Father Cardenal began writing poetry as a young man, tracing the tormented history of Nicaragua and Latin America as epics in blank verse.
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Fantasy tomes and ongoing series such as Terry Brooks' Shannara Chronicles, George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series, and Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series gained new readers, while new fantasy epics such as Brian Staveley's Chronicles of the Unhewn Throne and Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive have begun to fill the void with new epics to explore.
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Her stories juxtapose Hindu epics, other myths and histories, and the survival of sexual harassment and racialized sexual violence by diverse women of color.
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C. P. Snow's now sadly neglected Strangers and Brothers novels, as well as the naval history epics — not neglected at all — of Patrick O'Brian.
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It was used for golden-age Hollywood epics like Ben Hur and How the West Was Won, helping to transform these films into events.
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She subsequently introduced Brosnan to Albert (Cubby) Broccoli, producer of the 007 epics, who wanted to make Brosnan the next Bond after Roger Moore.
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W. Scott Poole: The macabre had existed long before the Great War, in epics, gothic novels, the work of Shelley and Stoker and Baudelaire.
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Which would be fine—except that from what we've seen, the themes of Call of Duty: WWII also flash back toward those Spielberg epics.
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The Epics later changed their name to Mudcrutch, and Petty traveled to Los Angeles in search of a record deal for the rock quintet.
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That description covers most of the comedies, action movies, superhero franchises and science-fiction epics produced by the big studios in the past decade.
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Number of episodes so far: Eight half-hour episodes Available on: Amazon How many TV shows can say they're post-apocalyptic martial arts epics?
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Which isn't to say that her age in the role is never a distraction, depending on what your expectations are for swoony historical epics.
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They can be miserably transparent (how many movies about show business have won best picture?); and risibly self-congratulatory (bloated epics, vanity projects, "Crash").
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The ancient epics are filled with journeys and visits and much is made of everyone retiring for the night to a notably soft bed.
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We cannot leave it to the health record software companies — the Cerners, Epics and Allscripts of the world — to bring about the needed changes.
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The movie turns its heroines' journeys -- their inner lives as well as their professional ones -- into elaborate epics that defy easy classification or summary.
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These tools are new -- Homer had never heard of a bot -- but at the same time, this form is as old as the epics.
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In any case, comic books, those colorful serial epics that were at least honest about their fantasies, would soon grab hold of my imagination.
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More recently, however, the 69-year-old director has focuses his talents on historical epics that examine the deep price of war, freedom and humanity.
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How about some of the heroes from Shakespeare or even ancient Greek epics to really inspire the project and lend it extra some canonical heft?
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They range from tight thrillers to sprawling epics to searing indictments of the system, featuring criminals, cops, double-crosses, elaborate schemes, gunfights, and much more.
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Biblical epics like "Ben-Hur" and "The Ten Commandments" took a more direct approach to religion, with clear points of view — and lots of spectacle.
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In 1954 she was in "The Golden Apple," a through-composed musical that reset the Homeric epics in Washington State in the early 20th century.
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In my elementary school we were told that a great flood really happened, hence its appearance in Mesopotamian epics as well as in the Bible.
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Still, there is some evidence that the oral tradition behind the Homeric epics traces as far back as Linear B, the first Greek writing system.
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On Page 32, he cites a "crop" of high-profile biblical epics that "flopped" — and then names only two ("Noah" and "Exodus: Gods and Kings").
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He read everything he could get his hands on, equally at home with comics, Shakespeare, and the great epics of Indian mythology, the Mahabharata and Ramayana.
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I wanted to talk a bit about the differences between Strange Weather and your longer novels like The Fireman and NOS4A2, which are huge, complicated epics.
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Even still, the first X-Men film still feels light and pulpy compared to the 10-ton epics both Marvel and DC have rolled out since.
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They also totally fail to see that Lucan's political epics "work as spaces to reconfigure agency and the political (or philosophical) self," as Regler put it.
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The product has "milestones" and "epics" built in, so that every person in the engineering organization can see the current status of critical features and releases.
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The biggest video games tend to fall into one of a few different genres: there are the huge fantasy epics, and the vast sci-fi universes.
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They began doing everything they could to offer things that TV couldn't, from massive, widescreen visuals to enormous epics that couldn't be produced on TV budgets.
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As the director of elaborate fantasy epics like the "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" trilogies, Peter Jackson has become known for meticulous attention to detail.
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Braxton specializes in dramatic, emotional epics, songs that are practically operatic in scope; her most enduring hit is "Un-Break My Heart," a sweeping power ballad.
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Searing passions and the vicissitudes of fate abound in the classical works that inspired "Dionysos Stadt," including epics and plays by Aeschylus, Homer, Euripides and Sophocles.
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Meenakshi Jain, the author of a book examining the story of Rama, said many ordinary Indians viewed Hindu epics as itihas, or a record of history.
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Instead they stretched Baker's songs into gorgeously desolate epics that echoed through an outdoor amphitheater at the premiere at the Ojai Festival in California in June.
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Though the novel at times recalls the scope of Jonathan Franzen's family epics, it is far quirkier; Veblen becomes obsessed with (and converses with) a squirrel.
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What are, say, John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress or Dante's Divine Comedy but fantasy epics, where travelers visit strange, far-off kingdoms not of this Earth?
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Modi in particular loves serving children food, asking them to eat more vegetables and recite passages from Hindu epics — but it was a new move for Thakur.
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She first became famous as a damsel in distress opposite Errol Flynn in swashbuckling epics such as "Captain Blood" (1935) and "The Adventures of Robin Hood" (1938).
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Titova's neon work hanging from the ceiling is a reference to Aeolus, the wind god in Homer's epics, a metaphor for the possibility of a modern hero.
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Another added bonus: the Epic 2's have an upgraded, ceramic Bluetooth antenna from the previous pair of JLab Epics, which is supposed to improve the connectivity.
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Unlike most globe-trotting fantasy epics, I Am Setsuna doesn't really take place across a variety of disparate locals, but instead retains its gorgeous, wintery look throughout.
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You won't be playing 3D epics like Infinity Blade on Messenger, but 80s arcade classics, simple puzzlers, and retro games like Flappy Bird would work just fine.
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So many of our heroic stories today involve the military and soldiers, but somehow the process of becoming cultural heroic epics makes them alien to actual soldiers.
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Bled out by co-anchors McMaster and Weinstein, its seven gnarled epics are both brutal and brainy as the album rages full on with neck-snapping angularity.
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The narratives Iskandar's puppet troupe perform are also updated to reflect modern society, instead of the usual stories from Hindu epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata.
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Serious films aimed at older audiences tend to arrive in the fall or late winter; summer is usually reserved for comic-book adaptations and science-fiction epics.
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The artwork, based on Indian epics such as the Ramayana and Mahabharata, can take six months to a year to complete and can be 523 feet wide.
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The sheer scale of Arrington's alleged spending evokes the genre's epics: the Instagram-fueled folly of Fyre Festival, or the high-society confidence games of Anna Delvey.
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Intermissions were once a regular part of the American moviegoing experience, even with films that were not "Gone With The Wind"-sized (three hours, 58 minutes) epics.
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Though more dusks were to come when I saw him — in New York City, in Boston, at his home — I was never able to speak about that library evening, or the day that followed when I was further altered by these lines from "Another Life": ...All of the epics are blown away with the leaves,blown with the careful calculations on brown paper,these were the only epics: the leaves.
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The prologue is a farrago, with expository narration pasted over a seemingly random assortment of battles, murders, and wizardy hocus-pocus, but that's not unusual for fantasy epics.
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Nick Lowe: The beautiful thing that Marvel Comics does is take real world experiences and translate them through big super hero epics to shine a light on them.
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From blockbuster epics to smaller indie experiences to inventive takes on VR, the breadth and variety of games that came out over the last 12 months is astounding.
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By default, it takes existing projects and epics a team has already defined and visualizes those on a timeline — including data about how many open issues still remain.
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Personal and professional kindreds Bob Matthews and Catherine Pockson were signed early after their first batch of tracks—mini-epics like "Cocoon" and "Empire"—built massive buzz online.
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Partly it's that the Oscars have a known genre bias in favor of "weighty" dramatic films and sweeping epics over more popular genres like horror, Westerns, or suspense.
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Inspired by Hollywood epics such as "Ben Hur" and "The Ten Commandments" when growing up, Rajamouli wanted to create a tentpole franchise that delivered a memorable movie experience.
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Like with boards, it's easy enough to change the roadmap by just dragging the different larger chunks of work (or "epics," in Agile parlance) to a new date.
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The poet Gonçalves Dias published Indianist epics and a dictionary of Tupí; the novelist José de Alencar placed Indians—especially women—at the center of a new mythology.
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Bernardo Bertolucci, the Italian filmmaker whose sensual and visually stylistic movies ranged from intense chamber dramas to panoramic historical epics, died on Monday at his home in Rome.
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He is borne out by recent years' fruitful crop of epics rooted in the familiar soil of fathers and daughters, mothers and sons, blood, sex, bastardy and inheritance.
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They weren't shot with any sound at all: Italian filmmakers, from directors of cheesy gladiator epics to Federico Fellini, often shot silently, synchronizing sound and dialogue in postproduction.
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Like Avril, Rico's got a flair for anthemics, this charismatic way of tweaking little phrases so that they turn from casual boasts to fists-in-the-air epics.
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He transfixed generations with his martial arts epics, such as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", selling hundreds of millions of copies and inspiring numerous film and television adaptations.
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Some of your favorite fragrances, bath bombs, shower gels, and more were merely the byproducts of romance epics so good, they could rival the biggest Meg Ryan tear-jerker.
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There's no shortage of shows that aim to be sweeping epics or psychological thrillers, so it was a relief to have Brooklyn Nine-Nine out there keeping it light.
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Just those opening seconds formed an oasis amidst the delicate, morbid epics like "Reel Around the Fountain" and "Suffer Little Children" that the band initially made their name on.
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Yet "Wolf Warrior 2" has twists that set it apart from standard Chinese film epics, which often show flawless party heroes and deliver political lectures lightly disguised as dialogue.
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Aspiring to the sweep of epics like "Doctor Zhivago" and "Reds," Mr. George achieves neither the romantic delirium of the first nor the sheer swaggering gumption of the second.
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At the same time, she roamed freely through the vast storehouse of Indian folk tales and epics and made a close study of the endless family dramas around her.
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Four years later, he published "The Grace of Kings," an epic fantasy novel that drew on both Western mythology and epics and on historical legends about the Han dynasty.
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For a long time, particularly inventive fight scenes and large-scale epics were somewhat restricted to the big screen, where budgets are higher and production schedules are more relaxed.
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Richard Prince's "Prison Nurse" (2003) with its pink-skinned blonde in a surgical mask – ideal and spleen — looks like a flatly painted gimmick compared to Moreau's refined and layered epics.
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Unaware of the manga-style story that inspired the title, many listeners heard it as an allegory of that greatest of American epics, the African-American freedom struggle since slavery.
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Netflix has officially thrown its hat into the ring of gargantuan sci-fi epics à la Westworld and its fantasy blockbuster cousin Game Of Thrones with futuristic odyssey Altered Carbon.
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The first Star Wars is a heady mélange of World War II fighter pilot movies, the samurai epics of Japanese director Akira Kurosawa, and '50s creature features and B-movies.
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The story that Justice League gives us is a hodgepodge of all the superhero films, the fantasy epics, the space operas and the children's cartoons you've seen and immediately forgotten.
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The Marina-and-Ulay saga has become—for those who have viewed HBO's rosy-tinted documentary on Abramović's life and work—one of the great romantic epics of modern art.
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Of course, they're also interested in writing atheistic D'Angelo-lite gospel epics, reverent takes on turn-of-the-decade chillwave, a smothering bit of shoegaze, and multiple lengthy ambient interludes.
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It was "one of the strangest…events in Mediterranean history" that the Romans began producing Greek-style tragedies, comedies and epics before developing a fresh vernacular literature of their own.
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The shortest song on offer (gentle acoustic instrumental title track "Awaken") is a scant 3 minutes, but it's an outlier in an album stocked with 9-to-13 minute epics.
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And I mean all kinds of narratives: classical epics and homey fairy tales, barroom ballads and chronicles of hopeless love, multigenerational family sagas and ghost stories with a body count.
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Theater as communal ritual is also a central element of "Dionysos Stadt," Christopher Rüping's staggering 10-hour production based on Greek epics, which was arguably the festival's most lauded entry.
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Undead ice dragons, multiple beheadings, immortal warriors emerging from the snow... it's basically an Amon Amarth album in visual form (no disrespect meant towards Amon Amarth's Tolkien-ized Viking epics).
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Agrasen ki Baoli—Agrasen's step well—was built (or perhaps rebuilt) in the 14th century AD by followers of a mythical king whose life is chronicled in the earliest Sanskrit epics.
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I love role playing games, but playing one is a huge commitment, and increasingly I'm finding myself without the time or energy to power through epics that span dozens of hours.
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Such over-the-top historical epics have largely gone out of fashion in America, but they're still massively popular in China, where studios churn out hundreds of historical films every year.
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But whereas Rowling managed to keep churning out books at a rapid pace, Martin's (arguably more adult and much more involved) epics have officially stalled, and it's happened a season early.
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Though directed by Hell or High Water's David McKenzie, Outlaw King feels mostly like a made-to-order movie for hungry fans of medieval war epics and maybe Game of Thrones.
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Nico Bruinsma of Los Angeles–based distributor Cult Epics likewise says most of his finds are chance encounters in thrift stores or when he happens upon them in other people's collections.
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Ranging from soapy 100+ episode revenge stories, to fluffy romantic comedies, to reality-bending historical epics, the k-drama scene is a delightful mixed bag, no matter what genre you're into.
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The main reason it isn't ranked higher is that it's up against some stiff competition — but as a palate cleanser between mythology-heavy epics, Solo pulled off its caper just fine.
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Ezra Feinberg used to live in San Francisco, where he led the cosmically minded rock band Citay, folding the wide-eyed folk of hippiedom into ambitious, classic rock-tinged mini-epics.
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Ms. Sarabhai was one of the first women to perform Kathakali, a classical dance form based on Hindu epics that was usually performed by all-male troupes in elaborate makeup and costumes.
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They run the gamut from intimate character dramas to galaxy-spanning epics, each of them as big and bold as their genre implies, but far more experimental and varied than ever before.
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Bodice rippers are suspended in a gendered cultural framework somewhere between sword-and-sandals historical epics (think Vikings orThe Last Kingdom) and the current pantheon of body-as-comedic-currency feminist narratives.
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Like the Bible epics of the 1950s, many Christian movies Hollywood is producing today use the religion as more of a setting or a premise than the central engine of the story.
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Also, there are a bunch of very good Japanese women composers like Yuki Kajiura and Michiru Oshima who have been making orchestral, emotional scores for fantasy and sci-fi epics for years.
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After getting into an argument with the band's drummer, Petty quit and moved on to join a group called The Epics, which included Tom Leadon, a brother of Eagles guitarist Bernie Leadon.
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Literary culture and shared memory existed in abundance both before and after the first pictographs and alphabets—consider Homer's epics, the products of a nonliterate Greek "dark age" before the Classical period.
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In place of the raw archaic potency of Homer's epics, which seems to dissolve the millennia between his heroes and us, Virgil's densely allusive poem offers an elaborately self-conscious "literary" suavity.
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We spoke to Mr. Jackson, the director of elaborate fantasy epics like the "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" trilogies, about how he and his team used old footage in new ways.
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It honors the 1998 film and the ballad by modernizing themes of female empowerment and iconic scenes, while also standing out w/ great cinematography & battle sequences are reminiscent of Wuxia epics. pic.twitter.
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He begins at the beginning, with paleoanthropology, then moves on to the Babylonian epics, which influenced the early chapters of Genesis, and on to a sketch of the life of St. Augustine.
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While 70 millimeter was traditionally used for wide-screen epics like "Lawrence of Arabia," recent revivals of the format for "The Master" and "The Hateful Eight" have demonstrated its versatility in interiors.
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After Wagner's plans for a festival in Munich devoted to his works fell through, he was entranced by the Margravial Opera House, but it was much too small for the epics he envisioned.
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Some have likened his widescreen vision of blue-collar American life to the classic movie epics of John Ford -- an analogy that at this point could still use some added heft and shading.
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Various Marvel superheroes have already teamed up in crossover epics like The Avengers and Avengers: Age of Ultron, but Infinity War is poised to be the biggest and baddest of those crossovers yet.
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That feeling seems to dissipate with the knowledge that women were traditionally kept away from the sea, their mere presence on a boat unlucky and the great sea epics almost empty of them.
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These songs work as extended jams and often serve as album centerpieces: the kinds of dramatic epics that result in a climax where you can practically envision Kaplan wailing on his Fender Jazzmaster.
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Dota 2 is an immensely popular video game that mixes elements of many genres, from sports simulation to role-playing epics to twitch-reaction shooters, and yet is unique in its own right.
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It's a sound that has rendered wonderful dance-floor odysseys like his new single, "Closing Shot," as well as thumping epics like "Baby Can't Stop," from a 2010 album with the singer Christabelle.
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Its sound is particularly evocative of the early 19703s, when Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield and Stevie Wonder were composing their own epics and jazz musicians like Max Roach were playing spirituals with gospel choirs.
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A vertical take-off and landing craft (VTOL) that can stand toe-to-toe with combat helicopters a concept taken directly from sci-fi – it's almost the default futuristic military ship among Hollywood epics.
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Initiated in 1967 by Anant Pai, the series was intended as a pedagogical tool to educate children on their cultural heritage through the retelling of stories from Indian epics, mythology, history, folklore and fables.
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Throughout TWD's six seasons on the air, it's seen the beginning and the end of breakneck shows like Breaking Bad and competes in some ways with ultra-plot-heavy epics like Game of Thrones.
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Bruford pointed out that even Pink Floyd, known for free-form jam sessions and, later, cosmic rock epics, found time to record songs like "Grantchester Meadows," a gentle ode to the East Anglian countryside.
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Critics have lauded the show as a morally complex family drama more akin to ancient epics, with fights to the death between fathers and sons, and a fearless exploration of the nature of evil.
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They shun pomp, bombast, and theatrics in favor of just rolling up their sleeves and diving in; they write brilliant epics without making a fuss over it, and have consistently released impressive, vital work.
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It became a small scale version of the sorts of epics behind powerful weapons—we were going out on quests in order to build the one weapon that could bring down this unbeatable monster.
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During the past several decades, her staged works have embraced symbolist fever dreams ("The Death of the Last Black Man…"), Brechtian fables ("In the Blood") and Homeric epics ("Father Comes Home From the Wars").
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Every year during the holy month of Ramadan, Egyptians crowd around their televisions to gorge on big-budget mini-series starring the country's top actors, including weepy melodramas, police procedurals and sweeping historical epics.
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On state-run media, he gives hours-long lectures, in which he spins connections among far-flung episodes in world history and politics; local channels feature him in multipart epics about the independence struggle.
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Tutuola's novels are all relatively short, but they contain the kinds of subplots, side quests, and digressions typical of epics such as The Odyssey, or Arthurian legends, or, yes, A Song of Ice and Fire.
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Starz might be the land of big, winding epics — the American Gods and Outlanders of the world — or hyper-masculine, violent fare like Ash Vs. Evil Dead and Power, but that looks like it's changing.
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Charlie Chaplin once lived in a neighboring house, but after the silent film star moved out, DeMille, who produced religious epics like The Ten Commandments and Samson and Delilah, purchased and combined the two estates.
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For those who want to know the chance of getting multiple legendaries or epics in a loot box, you can take a look at a few different Redditors' takes on how the math works out.
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Maybe you were swept up by the tidal wave of passion in sweeping epics like A Star Is Born or Cold War, or found a new way to skewer your rivals by watching The Favourite.
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That evening, Paul Pinto performed a recent dramatic piece, "15 Photos," which involved drones, dramatically lit passages of shadowboxing, growling vocalizations that alternated with more angelic writing, and some furiously compressed renditions of medieval epics.
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Mr. Max, bro icon, was the author of libidinal epics like "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell" that sold millions of copies by celebrating cruelty and a total lack of concern for women's humanity.
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For us, the Age of Discovery is long gone and, for the most part, so are old-fashioned historical epics, other than the occasional Chinese extravaganza or one of those international waxworks with clashing accents.
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The running commentary makes it difficult to get caught up in the drama, while the intricate nature of the dramatization introduces a florid element closer to Cecil B. DeMille epics than serious history and scholarship.
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Aside from creating the puppets, voicing them, and directing the orchestra, some even wrote their own stories based on characters in more popular epics such as the Mahabharata and the Ramayana, two ancient Indian texts.
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This is 'Wonder Woman' without the male gaze Since Superman: The Movie premiered in 1978, we've had an endless string of big-budget superhero epics, all of them either dominated by male characters or male directors.
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As this trying year mercifully comes to an end, shockingly, you'll find the salve for your likely anxiety-ridden soul in the network best known for violent, dark epics and comedies that are really dramedies, HBO.
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In an interview with Todd Kenreck, Mearls says this about mind flayers: To be clear, what Mearls is proposing here is generally in line with the storytelling of the fantasy epics that first inspired D&D. .
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He drew on oral epics, like the Epic of Sundiata, which some people believe was the basis for "The Lion King," though the filmmakers have called it an "original story," while admitting some parallels with Shakespeare.
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Surely it wasn't the bleached-wood-pulp and acid-free ink, but what the books contained: the epics and tragedies, the memoirs and mysteries, the 10,000 ways we've escaped and explained the human experience for centuries.
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Jarvis Cocker of Pulp shows up after a false ending and delivers a brief monologue about precisely how long a century is in the same deep, insidious drawl he used in his old band's tortured, psychosexual epics.
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Meanwhile, social media was buzzing after images emerged of Trump placing his hands on a glowing orb at the inauguration ceremony of a new center for combating extremist ideology – instigating comparisons from fantasy epics to science fiction.
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With key points and hotshots now increasingly being shown online in brief clips, the reach of social media may even enhance the popularity of such epics beyond tennis purists as hashtags and trends flash around the world.
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When evangelicals started making their own movies in the 60s and 210s (many of them former hippies employing the Roger Corman/Dennis Hopper model of low-budget filmmaking), the priorities were far different than Hollywood's biblical epics.
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It got him nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Movie, not best Best Actor, and it's not a Rocky movie, exactly: It's a Creed movie, and ostensibly the beginning of a new series of boxing epics.
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In Hail Caesar, he may have etched his most noteworthy dumbbell yet as Baird Whitlock, an early '50s Hollywood star who toplines the sorts of biblical epics that were the day's equivalent of comic book superhero movies.
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Armstrong's progress from pilot to celestial pioneer traces an epic arc, and like some of the ancient epics "First Man" is primarily a character study, a space odyssey with a diffident and enigmatic Ulysses at its center.
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Arcade titles are playable on iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. Though Apple maintained that the additions will be cross-genre, it's apparent that the emphasis is on more snack-able titles rather than desktop class epics.
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Franchises like the "Harry Potter" and Marvel movies, or even the "Fast and the Furious" series, are talked about now in terms of "mythology" — not as mere sequels but as densely connected epics of ever-ballooning scale.
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There he made Egyptian sandals and Western boots for Cecil B. de Mille's large-scale epics, and became a sought-after heel-maker for screen sirens like Joan Crawford, Anna May Wong, Greta Garbo and Lillian Gish.
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But bothered by what he felt were the many historical inaccuracies and superstitious fantasies found in the classical epics, Mr. Shan, who had studied history, soon began performing his own interpretations based on his meticulous historical research.
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The artistry and sustained off-line attentions of Knausgaard, Cusk, and Lerner; the intimate multivolume epics of Elena Ferrante and the curiously under-discussed Jane Smiley; more singular and lovely novels than I could ever list here.
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And, sure, some things never change (war movies and epics will always be Oscar favorites), but by looking at the nominees from year to year you can see trends emerge, grow, and then recede across Hollywood history.
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"Condition Oakland" and "In Sadding Around" adapt the sprawl of "Bivouac" into a more digestible package, and the Dear You epics "Accident Prone" and "Jet Black" are two of the best songs Jawbreaker ever committed to tape.
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Personally, I love found footage, and think it doesn't get enough credit for how flexible it is: It's a subgenre that can work for everything from claustrophobic chamber dramas to fantastical epics like Cloverfield and Troll Hunter.
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That can be a weird gap to comprehend for someone like me, who came of age in a film culture dominated by memories of the New Hollywood period of the '70s (epitomized by Francis Ford Coppola's gangster epics).
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Mimi Banning, the reclusive writer at the center of its plot, explains to her new assistant, Alice Whitley, that her 9-year-old son, Frank, was once obsessed with gangster epics but has "moved on" to screwball comedies.
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In spite of official sales estimated at 300m copies, plus multiple spin-off films, television serials and games, the 14 martial-arts epics written by Jin Yong between 1955 and 1972 have remained unknown to most Western readers.
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In practice, this has meant big-budget, tub-thumping revolutionary epics that perpetuate a mythology of Venezuelan socialism—leading the way as attendance figures fell was "Libertador" ("The Liberator"), a biopic of Simón Bolívar, the country's revolutionary hero.
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A triumph of research and plot over character and subtlety, Clavell's historical novel about an Englishmen who goes native with the first Japanese shogun is the first among equals of the James Michener era of middlebrow informational epics.
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A film about Old Hollywood, set inside the fictional Capitol Pictures in the 803s, it doesn't just take pains to create the look and feel of happy-go-lucky musicals, aw-shucks westerns, and Roman epics; Hail, Caesar!
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A film about Old Hollywood, set inside the fictional Capitol Pictures in the 1950s, it doesn't just take pains to create the look and feel of happy-go-lucky musicals, aw-shucks westerns, and Roman epics; Hail, Caesar!
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Goldman was a two-time Oscar winner and the writer behind several of the most venerated films in Hollywood history, spanning a huge array of genres, including war epics, spy thrillers, social satire, horror, fantasy, and much more.
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Of course, anyone who hasn't gotten into the club—see: most people—desperately wants to know what all the fuss is about, and it's only through these brief, hurriedly shot epics that they will ever get the chance.
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Thank goodness for shows like Sorry for Your Loss, which treat the stories of real lives as the stuff of fantasy epics and dare to suggest that what happens in our lives is important, no matter how mundane.
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It's why, on 22001's Wish, they'd spend half the record working in this mode, turning in glacially slow epics like "Trust" and "To Wish Impossible Things," only to buck expectations by releasing their bubbliest concoctions to date.
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A realistic novelist might have made some epic like Olivia Manning's Balkan and Levant trilogies from this, but Kavan wasn't a maker of epics, and was accompanied not by a colorful husband but by her own violent solitude.
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Like its peers My Bloody Valentine and Sonic Youth, Mogwai has mastered the tricky art of transforming roaring guitar riffs, gut-punching drums and walls of guitar noise into sweeping epics that can, at times, feel oddly soothing.
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Their ethereal but heavy sound marched deeper into the realm of bands like Pelican, Sannhet, and even labelmates Russian Circles, creating dramatic and pensive post-rock epics that vacillate into grand tremolo-picked choruses and lay bare vulnerability.
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Writers and readers find in his epics whatever they are looking for, whether that is a lesson about the place of the individual in the chaos of war, or the perils of nostalgia, or the agony of unrequited love.
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The tradition itself goes back to the Homeric epics but was kept alive by Pontic Greeks—a group of ethnic Greeks originally from the shores of the Black Sea, who over the centuries migrated to Turkey, Georgia, and Russia.
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But amongst the sci-fi epics and zoological escapades there's a host of pleasure-filled theme park "builder" affairs, ranging from casual-appeal titles to those demanding a lot more concentration and commitment to get the most out of.
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Among the insane myriad of dramas, historical epics, and action flicks (including 2008 election tie-in Obama, in no way about the president mind you), we hit an old comedic number he'd done in October 2001 called Uncle Wayward.
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Mycenaean rulers such as Achilles, Agamemnon and Odysseus were the heroes of Homer's epics, and Mycenaean civilization, even though it collapsed shortly after 1200 B.C., was the forerunner of the classical Greek era that arose some 700 years later.
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By the late 1960s, he was a regular on national network broadcasts, and he leveraged his fame to pitch more ambitious but potentially unwieldy ideas, including the kind of elaborate fantasy epics that would evolve into The Dark Crystal.
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But that website builds on one of the great epics of human intellectual history—stretching back to the earliest times of systematic science, and encompassing contributions from a remarkable cross-section of the most celebrated scientists and mathematicians from past centuries.
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This is the art form that gave us Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir Maus, the sprawling epics of Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez's Love and Rockets, the formalist heartbreak of Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan, on and on and on.
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Unlike so many other prestige dramas, fantasy sagas, and (pseudo) historical epics, it considered seriously how women and girls might fit into this patriarchal, misogynistic world, how they might be shaped by it, and how they might shape it in turn.
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Not much to do now except look for other fantasy epics to fill the gap, talk over the past season, and revisit it on video, free of the frantic rush to be the first to comment on every plot development online.
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Redemption came in another of the post-Sputnik Russian epics, Boris Pasternak's "Doctor Zhivago," which tells the story of the Russian Revolution as Tolstoy might have done it — not as an ideological tract or political commentary, but as a multilayered narrative.
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I loved biblical epics like "The Robe," by Lloyd C. Douglas; "The Silver Chalice," by Thomas B. Costain; "Ben-Hur," by Lew Wallace; and books about Native American tribes and chiefs, especially Osceola and Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé.
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With the advance of sound, all-singing-all-dancing melodramas and religious epics grew popular with Indian audiences, but a number of "social-problem" films, naturalistic in their depiction, also found fans, and this, despite being on a less-than-equal footing.
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At over five and a half minutes, its not one of Moodymann's outright epics, but it still leaves plenty of room for him to cover a lot of ground—diving from the more peaceful moments to the bawdy, mechanistic ones with reckless abandon.
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Behold, the best of the bunch, which include a new YA book from legend Angie Thomas; a collection of poetry you'll buy for your friends; fantasy epics that will sate your Game of Throne fever; and more than one engrossing family saga.
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In the two and a half decades since he's made nothing short of epics—famously utilizing over 100 backing musicians on one of the band's peak-era records —echoing a composerly impulse to reflect the grandeur of the universe in his songs.
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For pothole epics, GoogleNew York, plus street, plus repair:an Upper East Side sinkhole seized a garbage truck; a Bay Ridge cave-in —12 feet long, five feet wide,three and a half feet deep — cratereda car, dropped it beyond a C-hole.
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Scale is something that's often taken for granted in an age of video game epics like Skyrim and GTAV, but when every horizon you see through your own point-of-view is conquerable, you're left to either feel very bold or very lost.
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The sleek, refreshing synth-pop grooves of Phoenix (Saturday); the metal-tinged prog-rock epics of Tool (Sunday); and the hardheaded rhymes of Wu-Tang Clan (Saturday) are among the other sounds you'll find in the eclectic lineup of this three-day festival.governorsballmusicfestival.
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The sleek, refreshing synth-pop grooves of Phoenix (Saturday); the metal-tinged prog-rock epics of Tool (Sunday); and the hardheaded rhymes of Wu-Tang Clan (Saturday) are among the other sounds you'll find in the eclectic lineup of this three-day festival.
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But in this decade, the Oscars have turned inward, eschewing ambitious epics and grand statements about the national character in favor of anxious self-reflection, bestowing the Academy's highest honors on films like "The Artist" and "Argo" that flattered Hollywood's self-image.
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Quentin Tarantino has always been good at elevating classic genres, from westerns to WWII epics to basically every genre ever in Kill Bill, but he's apparently thinking about taking on a whole new genre experiment for his tenth and final film: horror.
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Paradox Interactive, the game's publisher, has relied on its ever-expanding suite of grand strategy epics (the open-ended space empire builder Stellaris was released this year, too) to build a corporation able to float 15 percent of its stock on Sweden's NASDAQ.
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Arriving coach-less and ranked 72 in the world, the 23-year-old Australian blazed through the draw, taking out Rafa Nadal, Stan Wawrinka and John Isner in three-set epics before outclassing Zverev 6-3 6-4 to claim his fifth career title.
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OK, it's been five years since the soaring epics like "Cocoon" and "Empire" reeled us in, and since then the band have released their debut LP, Oasis, chatted with us about the evolution of their style, and set about making more music of course.
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Campbell's work has led to lasting influence: Master storytellers like George Lucas of "Star Wars" and J. K. Rowling of "Harry Potter" follow the path of the hero's journey in their respective epics, leaving different impressions within the common cultural footprints that Campbell illuminated.
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I am not by nature a visual person at all, but I had rather intense experiences reading Shantaram (a staple of the prison reading epics) and Life of Pi. I have serious reservations about these books, although they were both ripe for the moment.
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He likes to frame the small-scale events of his plays as great epics; in his most successful play, 2009's Jerusalem, and again in Ferryman, he pairs distinct class and regional consciousness with references to mythology and great works of poetry and literature.
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Villalobos is well known for stretching his source material into meandering mini-epics that challenge the notion of space and time, but when it comes to Principe Del Norte cut "C," he already had a lot to work with, given the original's nearly 14-minute span.
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Renowned director Zhang Yimou (House of Flying Daggers, Hero) has placed Westerners at the center of a fundamentally Chinese narrative before, notably with Christian Bale in 2011's The Flowers of War, and he is clearly no stranger to the scope of scale of historical epics.
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Taking a hint from Microsoft's search engine Bing, which debuted Klingon translation in 2013, Yandex Translate became the first engine to add Sindarin Elvish, or "Eglathrin" as it's known to native elven speakers, one of many dialects dreamed up by JRR Tolkien for his Middle Earth epics.
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Even among the mega epics being produced by Hollywood at the time (such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Cleopatra"), "Spartacus" stands out for its sheer grandeur and remarkable cast (Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Charles Laughton, Peter Ustinov), as well as for Stanley Kubrick's masterful direction.
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This year in comics gave readers an assortment of wonders big and small, and Graphic Content's choices for the best of 2019 range from long-fermenting multi-character epics to graphic novels and memoirs for younger readers to a variety of forceful works addressing women's experiences.
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Otherworldly Just in time to surf the wake of the latest Star Wars film comes GALACTIC EMPIRES (Night Shade, paper, $17.99), a collection of compact space epics anthologized by Neil Clarke and written by some of the biggest stars and up-and-comers in the genre.
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But it's not so much that these works are being unwillingly shoved onto an audience (catchy hip-hop singles and superhero epics are pretty agreeable forms of media), it's this strange idea that their existing success has to be beaten into the ground through forced ubiquity.
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Adjusted gross: $291.2 million Unadjusted gross: $28.8 million What it's about: One of Cecil B. DeMille's many grand Biblical epics, the movie adapts the story of a man whose power is tied to his uncut hair, and the woman who learns his secret and betrays him.
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Both made her particularly amenable to casting as a kind of refined human clothes hanger in historical epics over the course of the 2000s: King Arthur, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pride & Prejudice, a billion more Pirates of the Caribbeans, The Edge of Love, Atonement, Silk, and The Duchess.
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DC launched out-of-continuity epics like Batman: The Long Halloween and All-Star Superman, and it made several dramatic, intended-as-permanent changes, like Aquaman losing a hand and the deaths of original Green Lantern Hal Jordan, replacement Robin Jason Todd, and former Green Arrow Oliver Queen.
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Another speaker, G. Nageswara Rao, a vice-chancellor at Andhra University in southern India, used stories from Indian epics Ramayana and Mahabharata as proof the people of ancient India had aircraft, test-tube babies and that stem-cell research "was done in this country thousands of years ago".
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Both stories are heavier on atmosphere and dialogue than on action: They're epics of patience, in which Smiley — who in Mr. Guinness's portrayal seems the most patient man alive — probes and waits, and probes and waits some more, until at last the prey is cornered, nowhere left to run.
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While there's something appealing about seeing so many of my childhood favorites blown up into massive-budget epics, it's also unexpectedly exhausting, in that there's almost too much material that I'm interested in, too many films that seem entirely focused on catering to me and my childhood interests.
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It's that kind of Banksy-ish fakedeep thinking that the video for Major Lazer's breezy PartyNextDoor and Nicki Minaj collab "Run Up" lampoons as it depicts a party where everyone is presumably busy crafting Snapchat epics instead of paying attention to their surroundings and the people around them dancing.
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Christian cinema stretches all the way back to silent movies like The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ (22016) and on through Golden Age of Hollywood epics like Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments in 21998 (starring Charlton Heston) and William Wyler's Ben-Hur in 20153 (also starring Charlton Heston).
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Back in 1949, a Hindu idol "miraculously" appeared inside a mosque in the Indian city of Ayodhya, substantiating, in popular imagination at least, claims that the 16th-century mosque stood on the site of the birthplace of Ram, an incarnation of Vishnu, a Hindu god, and the hero of ancient epics.
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Spirit's 'Taurus' and Led Zeppelin's 'Stairway to Heaven' Filed in 2014, this suit claimed that Led Zeppelin took the opening section of what is now one of rock music's most famous epics from a song titled "Taurus" by a lesser-known band that toured with Led Zeppelin in their early days.
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Tarantino fashioned his newest effort as a capital-E Event in the tradition of the spectacle films of yore; the 70mm format and its dazzlingly rich colors, lush sound, and ravishingly detailed image were originally used to lift epics such as Ben-Hur and Lawrence of Arabia to godly proportions.
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While the song has Arcade Fire co-leader and vocalist/every-instrumentalist Régine Chassagne embarking on one of the group's patented disco-ball epics, the clip somewhat inverts that joy, featuring Chassagne dancing by herself on a rainy, police-car-lit street that's being cleaned up after a huge parade.
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The classic Hollywood genres, from gangland movies to historical epics to literary adaptations to Westerns and war movies and musicals, were all calibrated for this zone, and when the calibration was successful, the Oscar nominators had a lot of material to work with that was at once popular and pretty-good.
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History rears its head in other ways too among this week's titles, from journalistic accounts of conflicts past and present to novels based on historical figures (Jasmin Darznik's "Song of a Captive Bird," about the Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad) or multigenerational family epics (Luis Alberto Urrea's "The House of Broken Angels").
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Johnson once noted that he was working under the star of Isaac Babel while writing "Jesus' Son," and it showed; just as Babel saw (for example) the Russian sunset as others had not previously, Johnson transformed his misfits and heroin addicts until they became like protagonists from the time of epics.
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Burns has settled into a nice groove of late, one where he alternates his gigantic, sweeping epics, like The Civil War or 1840's Baseball or 93's The Roosevelts, with smaller, more personal films, often focusing on individuals or less epic moments within the grand tapestry of American history.
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For example, it was no surprise to see the theater swell to bursting during Panopticon's set—which was itself a deeply emotional affair capped off by a heartfelt, tearful display of gratitude from Austin Lunn—or during rare performances from Krallice, Obsequiae, and Christian Mistress (to say nothing of Mournful Congregation's closing epics).
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We break down the hip-hop infused world of new jack swing with the genre's creator Teddy Riley; we have En Vogue discuss how important dance and fashion were for R&B and the 1990s as a whole; Jodeci explain how their tough-but-sensual slow jam epics broke all the rules.
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Informed by those experiences, as well as his interests in World War I documentaries and silent film, the record is themed around a lone warrior on a devastated battlefield whose plight is explored through a vivid, unsettling mix of art-rock, metallic noise, piano-flecked post-punk epics, blood, sex, and death.
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A little of Casablancas' current headspace might be blamed on the response to his first album with the studio rats in the Voidz, Tyranny, a proggy, apoplectic record of dayglo soloing and abstract epics that shattered the droll melodiousness that longtime fans had come to expect of his work away from the Strokes.
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Immediately recognizable for his tall, lean frame and expressive face, Landau had a prolific career that saw him appear in movies ranging from studio epics to schlock horror films, and it's hard to name a procedural television show from the '19883s and '70s that he didn't pop up on at some point.
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"It was a little test I gave myself, and I failed it," said Ms. Norris, 67, whose new book is an alpha-to-omega account of her passion for words and for the place that produced such glories as epics by Homer, ouzo and Kalamata olives (though not necessarily in that order).
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The setup — a superhuman minority with a royal family and a restless underclass — has echoes of another ABC fantasy, "Once Upon a Time," but it's presented in such a stilted, sluggish way that it mainly recalls costume epics like "Clash of the Titans," which at least had Ray Harryhausen's cool special effects.
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Those names should give you a feel for the level of satire involved, although it is fascinating, and a bit depressing, to realize that in 1954 the show's creators — the composer Jerome Moross and the librettist John Latouche — could count on an audience's familiarity with ancient epics to make the jokes pay off.
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When I was working on "The Moor's Account," which is based on the true story of the first African explorer of America, I read a lot of historical fiction, scholarly works on 16th-century Moroccan history, epics about Spanish exploration of the Americas and research on indigenous tribes of Florida and the Southwest.
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" 'What Survives After the "Game of Thrones" Finale' [The New Yorker] "Get ready for the zombie horde: a deluge of high-priced epics, spinoffs, and rip-offs — serialized narratives in the 'Thrones' tradition, duly larded with sexposition and gravitas, fur vests and exotic weapons, each of them aiming to hit the demographic sweet spot.
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Designed to beat the cinematic epics of the 1960s at their own game, the film contains enough battlefield extras to populate a Baltic city, a duel to rival "Barry Lyndon" (before "Barry Lyndon"), snowfall that upstages "Doctor Zhivago," a ballroom sequence that makes "The Leopard" look cheap — and that's just in the first three hours.
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Unlike the average rock show ranging from punk to stadium filling epics to sweaty indie music where nearly everyone is on the same level—whether punching people in the face, getting lit, singing along out of key or time; doing whatever—you could almost pick out several vibey microcosms within the macrocosm of Yo La Tengo's.
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Petty dropped out of high school in the late 1960s to focus on his Gainesville, Florida-based band — first called The Epics, which Petty said was too corny, so they changed it to Mudcrutch — but it was his band Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers that finally broke through with "Breakdown," the biggest hit from their 1976 self-titled album.
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"That term was quite common in the industry at one time, especially at the height of the Hollywood biblical epics, the likes of 'Ben Hur' and 'Spartacus,' and people do still use it today," Tim Blanks, show critic and editor at large at The Business of Fashion, said from the front row of the Dior show.
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The franchise's endurance more than a decade later is even more surprising than the original film's splash: Such continual triumphs are typically reserved for big, special effects-heavy fantasy epics like "Harry Potter" or "Star Wars," not modest, cheerful underdog stories about competitive street dancing, in which the only action consists of pops, locks and twirls.
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Surely there are traditional, realistic narratives among the notable novels about the war: Mr. Halberstam's "One Very Hot Day" spawned James Webb's "Fields of Fire" (1978), John Del Vecchio's "The 13th Valley" (1982) and 2009's "Matterhorn," by Karl Marlantes — sprawling, so-called melting-pot-platoon combat novels in the tradition of James Jones's World War II epics.
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When Notre Dame is playing badly, as they have been for this whole season, Kelly simply spins the dial to the right, by demanding and disclaiming responsibility more vigorously as needed, by undertaking new epics in disciplinary theater like dressing down his entire team at halftime on the sideline, and by generally behaving in the most Brian Kelly manner possible.
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Some of what is shown at the Queens Museum can be likened to such other explorations of intimate body functions as the Icelandic performance piece by Ragnar Kjartansson in which he asked his mother to spit on him; Mika Rottenberg's video epics of ingestion, excretion, sweat and sneezing; and Janine Antoni's gargoyle-shaped copper urinary device, with which she posed for a rooftop photograph.
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Apart from a great deal of hand-held, wide-screen camera work that might be thought of as Lars von Trier-o-Vision, the movie, directed by Erik Poppe, proceeds in the manner of any number of war epics of the 1960s, sluggishly charting how the ostensibly ceremonial king acquired real negotiating power during a crisis — and had the resolve to lead his country into war.
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