The public wasn’t entirely crazy about D.W. Griffith’s massive production Intolerance when he presented it [in 1916]. At that time there was too much interest in the greatest drama of the time ...

Prior to his premature death at age 45 in 1955, James Agee was our most artful composer of film criticism, and what he ...

For example, Robey opens the book with D.W. Griffith’s 1916 masterpiece Intolerance, a film that offers a kind of digest of world history, from Babylon to America in the early 20th century.

1916 Intolerance, D. W. Griffith 1927 Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 1932 Freaks, Tod Browning 1939 Gone With The Wind, Victor Fleming 1940 The Great Dictator, Charlie Chaplin ...