In the 1950’s, Simon and Schuster started publishing a coffee table compendium called The Movies.
Series: D.W. Griffith
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Scarlet Days (1919)
Given D.W. Griffith’s centrality in the emergence of cinematic visual language, and the prominence of westerns in early Hollywood, it’s a little bit surprising that none of his signature films are westerns.
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Orphans of the Storm (1921)
The French Revolution turns out to be a very good match for DW Griffith.
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Way Down East (1920)
This is the fourth DW Griffith film I’ve watched in my tour through film history, and the fourth starring Lillian Gish.
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Broken Blossoms (1919)
DW Griffith, the premier American epic filmmaker of the 1910s, had his biggest financial stumble in the hugely ambitious, 3.5-hour Intolerance.
The problem with choosing “intolerance” as a theme for your time-sprawling opus is that it is so shapeless and blunt as to lose all meaning.
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The Birth of a Nation (1915)
I don’t even know where to begin. Imagine me staring speechless at a blank text box for several minutes as the prelude to this review.