The mind-blowing 1968 movie Ridley Scott called an act of genius

The mind-blowing 1968 movie Ridley Scott called an act of genius

Ridley Scott has spent decades returning to the sort of grand, unwieldy stories most directors would think twice about touching. Whether he’s rebuilding Ancient Rome, wandering through deep space or revisiting the battlefield, his films tend to arrive with scale baked into them. But for all his own visual ambition, there is one filmmaker Scott has repeatedly held above almost everyone else: Stanley Kubrick, and particularly the film he considers…