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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Each Friday, we recommend seven Old Movies to Watch Now, all of which come recommended by one of our critics and can currently be screened online. Read the review, watch the movie, feel accomplished. ...

The statues are part of a tribute to Griffith's Babylon set of "Intolerance" from 1916. The giant white elephant statues at the Hollywood and Highland Center, a popular tourists’ destination in Los ...