Ben Hur' | Critics' Picks | The New York Times

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15 жыл бұрын

A. O. Scott reviews William Wyler's epic, 50 years after it won the Academy Award for best picture.
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@afype 14 жыл бұрын

What a great movie. I miss those old wonderful movies.

@billfisher9238 5 жыл бұрын

Love his comment at the end, "sometimes the biggest picture is also the best."

@michaelnivens6267 Жыл бұрын

One of the greatest films of all time

@chreynest Жыл бұрын

not only pre-CGI but pre-SteadiCam, how they ever managed acceptable film images from the big 65mm movie camera thundering around that chariot racetrack as fast as the chariots themselves

@sranzuline 2 жыл бұрын

only time 'bigger is better' holds water

@phoenixkepo2743 2 жыл бұрын

When your soul is starving hors d'oeuvres don't feed you. What an amazing epic.

@kalliezolotas8682 4 жыл бұрын

The Epic of Epics!!!

@mothershelper1981 Жыл бұрын

By the way, the book is wonderful. If you've never read it, you should.

@FetaCheese222 13 жыл бұрын

@al1936ful It looks like this video was filmed for 16:9 (widescreen), framed in 4:3, and then stretched back and encoded into 16:9, which is why it looks like everything's been stretched.

@mothershelper1981 Жыл бұрын

I don't know a lot about moviemaking but I know it was made to stretch across the huge screens of the 1950s and 1960s. They often had to trim the edges of these old movies to fit the smaller screens and televisions. I wish this would be re-released once a year on large screens, maybe around Easter. The small screen just doesn't do it justice.

@worriorprincess4481 Жыл бұрын

I love this movie ... the costumes ..the set designs ... the music ...and I love the back story just as much as I love the movie I have the box set which includes the silent movie and I watch all the time ..

@al1936ful 13 жыл бұрын

Why is half the picture cut off??

@DS-wk1kn 5 жыл бұрын

The format it was shot in.

@mothershelper1981 Жыл бұрын

I was just commenting about that above. They made the film to fit on large wide screens of the area so in order for it to be viewed on smaller movie screens and televisions they had to cut off the sides of the movie. It's a real shame. It is best viewed in its original white screen format if possible.