When nostalgic cinephiles lament the absence of “Hollywood films that they don’t make any more,” they often refer to the grand, larger-than-life historical epics that studios produced in the 1950s and 1960s. These films aimed to deliver vibrant colours and sweeping vistas in a widescreen format, offering audiences a spectacle that was unattainable in the confines of their small black-and-white television sets. Among…







