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Jul 4, 2024 · Chief among these innovators was D.W. Griffith. It is true that Griffith’s self-cultivated reputation as a Romantic artist—“the father of film technique,” “the man who invented Hollywood,” “the Shakespeare of the screen,” and the like—is somewhat overblown.
5 days ago · D.W. Griffith’s 1915 Civil War-era epic The Birth of a Nation dealt with Reconstruction, while Korean-American Philip W. Chung’s new world premiere play Unbroken Blossoms deals with the ...
Jul 3, 2024 · Titled “Unbroken Blossoms,” the East West Players world premiere applauds the two Chinese consultants hired to work on Griffith’s interracial romance film while a white actor plays the movie ...
Jul 3, 2024 · After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese...
2 days ago · It has been 40 years since my first performance at MoMA, accompanying D.W. Griffith’s Way Down East (1920). Around the time of my graduating from NYU undergrad film school in 1984, when I was still in my dorm room but not moved out just yet, I received a phone call.
4 days ago · Speaking of D.W. Griffith’s Confederate-family roots, earlier this year I read and enjoyed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin’s epic book “Team of Rivals,” which relates how Abraham Lincoln and his previous political rivals designed the eventual re-unification of the United States after the end of the Confederacy.
Jun 18, 2024 · The Lesson (1910) The Moving Picture World, 31 December 1910 wrote: At one time the Biograph Company had quite a reputation for sermons. Here is one which has much of the original flavor, representing a young man disobeying the wishes of his father, a minister, to become a preacher; sinking lower and lower until just as his father dies he kills a man in a saloon brawl, and but for the plea of ...
