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 ...

For his next film, Griffith had a breathtakingly original concept. “Intolerance,” screening once Saturday in a stunning new digital 167-minute restoration at the Castro Theatre, was not a huge ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

Getting a primped-up, digitally-restored one-night screening at Film Forum this Tuesday (May 13), D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) is all at once the Moloch of cineastical good intentions, the first ...

Intolerance-- After making his racially biased "The Birth of a Nation" (1914), D.W. Griffith shot a potboiler titled "The Mother and the Law" (1915). It is a moral tale of how a husband is sent to ...