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 ...

For many critics and scholars — myself among them — D. W. Griffith’s Intolerance is the greatest film ever made. A century later we are as close to its subject as we are distant from its art.

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 ...

Best extra: “Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on ‘Intolerance,'” a too-short interview (in HD) with the esteemed film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow ADD “INTOLERANCE” to ...