Ben-Hur (1959) and the Legacy of Oldschool Cinematic Grandeur

Ben-Hur hails from a cinematic era as obscure and seemingly obsolete to us today as the ancient Romans have been to us for centuries. Released in 1959, Ben-Hur came at a time during which many of the films Hollywood strove to craft were nothing less than epics. The sheer vision, the scale, and the depth…