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...continuous, unedited, technologically and artistically miraculous Steady-Cam shot. And a mad genius for a director, bent on making—and remaking—Russian history. Were it not so exquisitely beautiful, Russian Ark, the latest film from Russian director Alexander Sokurov, might pale in comparison to the epic story of its own production...
CITIZEN KANE. Citizen Kane was an instant classic upon its 1941 release. The American Film Institute named it the best movie made—ever. Yet the film was an epic flop at the Academy Awards, converting just one of its nine nominations, taking the award for Best Original Screenplay. (WWII propaganda classic Mrs. Miniver swept the top prizes.) Citizen Kane, it seems, has gotten the last laugh. Secretary, take heart. Citizen Kane screens March...
Jesus isn’t the only religious figure to inspire epic monuments. The Midwest is defined by the word “big.” Chicago boasts the Sears Tower and the world’s largest Red Radio Flyer Wagon. Wisconsin holds the illustrious record for biggest grandfather clock, and in Michigan you’ll find not only the world’s biggest tire, an homage to Detroit’s favorite industry but also the largest bronze wildlife sculpture (of bears fighting). A strict Freudian would ask, “Just what...
...huge epic poems and verse diatribes were pouring forth - more than ninety in the 1790s alone. Slavery was taken on by the first generation of self-consciously American poets, among them Joel Barlow, David Humphreys, Timothy Dwight, and Philip Freneau, all of whom saw it as anathema to America's future. In 1778 Barlow predicted that with American independence, "Afric's unhappy children, now no more / Shall feel the cruel chains they felt before." A few years later Freneau felt haunted by the continuing presence of slaves: "Half hell is in their song / And from the silent thought? - 'You have...
...former slave traders, including John Newton, the slaver turned evangelist amd abolitionist whose famous lyrics about God's "amazing grace . . . That saved a wretch like me" originated as a song of thanks for his deliverance from the sinfulness of slavetrading. Another former slave dealer, James Stanfield, composed an epic of several hundred lines entitled "The Guinea Voyage" (1789), in part of which he depicted the birth of a baby in the wretched squalor of the slave decks. (Art and life were not so distinct: the black poet Ignatius Sancho, who later became a figure in literary London, was born aboard...