Big Screen, Big Movies: A Celebration of the Cinema Epic

“Across the 100+ year history of cinema, few genres or styles of filmmaking have remained as critically lauded and culturally ubiquitous as the cinema epic. From Academy Award-winning blockbusters like Ben-Hur and Titanic and international classics like The Leopard and Andrei Rublev, to contemporary classics-in-the-making like Oppenheimer and The Brutalist, many of the most celebrated films of all time have been epics. With the inherent spectacle and vast creative canvas an epic provides, it comes as no surprise how many stand as fan-favorites among filmmakers and film-lovers alike. In many ways, the epic is the original event film: a film of such scope and grandeur that it all but demands to be seen on the big screen.

As such, the Jacob Burns Film Center is excited to present Big Screen, Big Movies: A Celebration of the Cinema Epic. Throughout the month of April, the JBFC will present nine of the greatest, biggest films ever made—on the big screen, where they belong.”

– Ian LoCascio, Series Curator