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...there will be no shortage of time to sit about discussing the slight and what it portends for Iran's current confrontation with the United States. For a people prone to conspiracy logic, the box office success of 300, compared with the relative flop of Alexander (another spurious period epic dealing with Persians) is cause for considerable alarm, signaling ominous U.S. intentions...
Loker Professor of English W. James Simpson opened his Arthurian literature lecture last month by reading aloud an e-mail he had received from a senior in his course. The e-mail contained an epic appeal. In an analogy to one of the stories the class had just read, the senior requested accommodation for one or more of the major course assignments because of how they coincided with the deadline of her thesis. The assigned story, “Yvain, the Knight of the Lion,” tells of a knight who must vanquish a giant in time...
...release. As a fan of Miller’s “Sin City,” I entered the theater with lofty expectations for high-caliber action and visceral visuals. It is my sad duty to report that what could have been an achievement of epic proportions winds up as a Greek tragedy. Loosely based on the historical battle of Thermopylae, “300” starts with an intriguing premise: A paltry band of Spartan soldiers take on the biggest army the world has ever known, led by the Persian tyrant Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro). Faced with...
...film.Rather, it’s the sophomoric type of work that many think Penn eschewed with “The Namesake”: 2004’s “Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle,” where Penn plays a prospective medical student on an epic quest for fast food after smoking too much pot and getting the munchies.According to Penn at an interview with college journalists, upon discovering that renowned director Mira Nair ’79 (“Monsoon Wedding,” “Vanity Fair”) had the rights...
...Arles” hearken back to similar photographs by Harry Callahan. Still, these images are striking in their clarity and sophistication, and retain the mark of Clergue’s individuality. Downstairs, among throngs of nudes, one wall of the showroom hosts several of Clergue’s epic photographs of El Cordobés, the dauntless Andalusian matador. “Danseuse aux Affiches,” from his eerie series of young itinerant circus performers entitled “Saltimbanques,” hangs on the same wall. Sadly, it is the only print from...