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The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.
Venizelos was in power during the epic population exchange with Turkey (1922), under which almost one million repatriated Greeks flooded Athens.
(The director, Shekhar Kapur, made the same point in his grim 1994 Indian epic The Bandit Queen , against a backdrop of scrubby plains along the Ganges.)
University of New Orleans historian and best-selling author Stephen Ambrose is credited as a consultant on Stephen Spielberg's World War II epic Saving Private Ryan . But Ambrose did his consulting after the film was completed.
The Daily Telegraph of London led its front page Friday with a report of an epic escape from Chinese Communist rule in Tibet by the teen-age head of one of the four great sects of Tibetan Buddhism.