epics

Sir David Lean, the Oscar-winning director whose grandiose epics over six decades often made him a bigger star than many of his actors, died Tuesday in London.

The struggles of people of color to share fully in a larger American identity has been one of the most powerful epics of unrequited love in the history of the world.

“It seizes upon Lucas’ original dream of finding a pop vessel for his obsessions — Akira Kurosawa epics, John Ford westerns, science-fiction serials — and fulfills it with a verve and imagination all its own.”

The women in “Shōgun” do not have it easy, but they display a different kind of strength than is usually celebrated in Hollywood epics and are shown with the dignity they deserve.

Yes, and sweeping historical romances or historical epics.