The cinematic epic: a staple of the filmgoer’s diet (ideally), though it’s felt like decades since any feature film has felt truly as capital-E EPIC as the classics. Film Streams invites you to correct your attention span and immerse yourself in three epics from a bygone era of filmmaking with George Stevens’ Giant (1956), Sergio Leone’s The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon (1975). So grab your snacks, sit back, and enjoy.
When Giant was released in 1956, ads for the film heralded it as “A picture of proud people… A love story… A cavalcade… A conflict of creeds… A personal drama of strong longings… A big story of big things and big feelings…” the film, based on the 1952 novel by Edna Ferber, was all that, and more.
Get TicketsArmed with his largest budget yet, Leone created what is, for many, the final word on the subject - a violent, picaresque epic presented with operatic scope and intensity, with Clint Eastwood donning the iconic hat and poncho one last time. Mythic, cynical and endlessly entertaining, the film brings Leone's grand sense of dramatic scale to its climax.
Get TicketsWith its meticulous historical accuracy and its astonishing visual beauty, Kubrick’s most underrated work is also probably his greatest. Expertly combining caricature with actorly restraint while creating immaculate painterly tableaux with natural light or candles, Kubrick creates a world that feels ineffably strange yet utterly real.
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