1.   Elizabeth is an extraordinary mixture of epic film, grand opera and grand guignol.

2.   By IAN SPELLING Mel Gibson never considered himself a connoisseur of epic films.

3.   By IAN SPELLING Distributed by New York Times Special Features Mel Gibson never considered himself a connoisseur of epic films.

4.   Gascogne supposedly died while working on an epic film that disappeared, although some claim to have viewed the rushes.

5.   Simultaneously directing an epic film while playing what is generally considered the most challenging of all classical English roles occasionally overwhelmed Branagh.

6.   The accommodations recalled the galley in some biblical epic film, crammed with slaves.

7.   The goal was to make a stylized epic film about gang warfare in pre-Civil War New York with enough mass appeal to score at the box office.

8.   The goal was to make a stylized epic film about gang warfare in pre-Civil War New York.

9.   The Oscars feel smaller this year, not so much because of the absence of anything resembling a big epic film.

10.   This cut is more like a grand scale epic film.