Well, there are more — and nobler — reasons to watch D.W. Griffith's three-hour-plus, centuries-spanning 1916 epic "Intolerance." But the aforementioned accoutrements underscore just how modern this ...

Washington Gave Bigotry No Sanction. We Should Do the Same How Did Katie Couric Become an Elder Stateswoman of Journalism? A Survivor’s Guide to Wicked: For Good For many critics and scholars — myself ...

Best extra: “Three Hours That Shook the World: Observations on ‘Intolerance,'” a too-short interview (in HD) with the esteemed film historian and preservationist Kevin Brownlow ADD “INTOLERANCE” to ...

Cinema pioneer D.W. Griffith pushed for feature-length films when the rest of the fledgling industry was content to make shorts. His 1915 silent film "Birth of a Nation" was enormously profitable ...

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 ...

D. W. Griffith’s overpowering 31/2 -hour epic, “Intolerance,” gets the perfect showcase Saturday, 95 years after its premiere — a screening with live, original music during an event exploring, yes, ...

If you’ve been to the Hollywood & Highland Center and have a working knowledge of silent film history, you may have noticed that the hulking mall’s design has been lifted with mixed success from the ...

The Silk Road Ensemble, jazz trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, and poet Robert Pinsky, create contemporary accompaniments to three great silent films in October at Rubin Museum of Art To coincide with its ...