Word: epical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Orson Welles'. Despite howls that he was committing artistic blasphemy, the Atlanta television and entertainment entrepreneur has applied tints to such classic films as Casablanca and The | Maltese Falcon. Still trying to squeeze fresh profits out of revered movies, Turner vowed to colorize Citizen Kane, the 1941 epic of which Welles was star, producer, director and co-writer...
...satanic portrayals of the Prophet as "Mahound," the name Rushdie gives his crypto-Prophet. In 1977 a fanatical band of Hanafi Muslims shot their way into three buildings in Washington, took more than 100 hostages and, among other things, tried to halt the showing of a $17 million movie epic called Muhammad, Messenger of God at theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. Though the tone of the movie was reverential, the producers had met endless difficulties in making it, including expulsion of the film crew from Morocco. In 1980 Saudi Arabia vehemently protested a British-American TV "drama...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie compelling. Sand was never so sexy...
...ranchers out around Hays, Kans., who, like 40 million other Americans, watched the television epic Lonesome Dove, figured that the great Texas- Montana cattle drive came right over their broad land. If that fantasy were turned into fact, then in all probability the tough old trail bosses Augustus McCrae and Woodrow Call drove their herd across the Smoky Hill and Saline rivers and pushed north to beat the merciless winters they knew were in store for them...
LAWRENCE OF ARABIA. David Lean's 1962 biopic, starring Peter O'Toole as adventurer T.E. Lawrence, was the first and finest epic of ideas. Now the film has been lovingly restored to 217 minutes, every one of them glorious. Military strategy was never so movie-compelling. Sand was never so sexy...