Better late than never …

 … ‘Ulysses,’ Acclaimed as the Greatest Novel of the Last Century, Could Be Just Hitting Its Stride (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

The documentary, though, soars when it, like its subject, breaks the rules. “Ulysses” is a modernist monument that never feels like a tomb because its teeming and stream of consciousness prose jerks to high from low, puns to philosophy. The book is gridded along a classical axis — Bloom is an avatar of the famed Greek wanderer, and Joyce makes taverns the sites of Homeric grandeur. This cuckolded Irish half Jew is the hero the 20th century needed.