Prior to his premature death at age 45 in 1955, James Agee was our most artful composer of film criticism, and what he ...
Decades, centuries or even the entire history of the world – these films encompass vast stretches of time within a single feature.
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.
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 ...
But that was what transpired on the set of Buster Keaton’s first self-directed feature – a spoof of DW Griffith’s history-straddling epic Intolerance, with sections set in prehistoric ...
However, silent classics from DeMille (Ten Commandments) and D. W. Griffith (Intolerance, Judith of Bethulia) are seen, in addition to performances by such notable silent period players as Theda Bara, ...
Intolerance reflects much credit to the wizard director, for it required no small amount of genuine art to consistently blend actors, horses, monkeys, geese, doves, acrobats and ballets into a ...