Well, there are more — and nobler — reasons to watch D.W. Griffith's three-hour-plus, centuries-spanning 1916 epic "Intolerance." But the aforementioned accoutrements underscore just how modern this ...

Made in 1916 and still ahead of the times, D.W. Griffith’s magnificent epic intercuts four stories set in four different historical periods—an experiment with cinematic time and space that even the ...

Cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith pushed for feature-length films when the rest of the fledgling industry was content to make shorts. His 1915 silent film "Birth of a Nation" was enormously profitable ...

D.W. Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation is inarguably one of the landmarks of American cinema. The distillation of the storytelling techniques, editing ideas, framing and visual composition, and nuanced ...

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Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages is a 1916 historical drama silent film directed by D.W. Griffith. It tells four stories across history, from ancient Babylon to early 1900s America, ...

at Carpenter Center Saturday and Sunday, 7 p. m. IN EARLY 1915 David Wark Griffith finished a small film based on contemporary news reports. The Mother and the Law dealt with the oppression of the ...

“SHE is madonna in an art as wild and young as her sweet eyes,” Vachel Lindsay wrote of Mae Marsh, who died on Tuesday of last week. She is the heroine of D. W. Griffith’s “Intolerance,” which came ...

The Silk Road Ensemble, jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and poet Robert Pinsky, create contemporary accompaniments to three great silent films in October at Rubin Museum of Art To coincide with its ...