He usually takes pains (for example, in his great depiction of hell in Books One and Two) to avoid the standard epic scenes of the torture of the damned, for example, with which we're familiar if we've read Homer or Virgil or, of course, Dante much later.
"It was a great depiction of bucket shops when bucket shops prevailed," said Jason Weisberg, managing director at Seaport Securities and an avid Scorsese fan who saw the movie the day it opened.
Check its Internet home page, www.riotinto.com, which has great depictions of products and operations.
There have been great depictions of the office as family (The Mary Tyler Moore Show) or the office as snake pit (The Apartment, Jerry Maguire), but Mad Men got both at once.
It has been described by the 20th-century critic Marcus Wood, as one of the few truly great depictions in Western art of the Atlantic slave trade.
Arguably the greatest depiction of stalkerdom ever shown in the movies comes in Joseph L Mankiewicz's All About Eve (1950).
Columbus Circle, East 13th Street, 8th Avenue Despite having a director who had grown up in Scotland and cut his teeth on Ealing comedies, this remains arguably the greatest depiction of New York of the Mad Men era: all smoke-filled rooms and swirling whiskies, newspapermen and cigarette girls.
This is Hollywood's greatest depiction of what critic Laura Mulvey (the second Laura -- remember?) would refer to as the "to-be-looked-at-ness" quality of female characters on screen.
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It's also another in Truffaut's latter-day gallery of obsessives: "The Story of Adèle H". and her romantic idée fixe; "The Last Metro," or "The Man Who Loved the Theatre"; and, of course, "The Woman Next Door," one of the cinema's greatest depictions of fanatical love unto death.
Now the Bayeux Tapestry, the great graphic depiction of the Norman Conquest, is to cross the Channel at last — although it may really be a homecoming.
