I've been aware of The Cheat for a while, but never saw it until the other night. The massive coffee table tome "The Chronicle of...

This is a significant post for several reasons. It is my fifteenth entry for March, meaning that I have surpassed my output for January and...

Was D.W. Griffith a surprisingly modern auteur at times, even a proto-neorealist in the end? Was his true stroke of genius a powerful contro...

The Struggle (1931) was D.W. Griffith's last feature film. He was fifty-six years old when it was released and it had only been sixteen...

Abraham Lincoln is certainly an interesting film, but unfortunately most of the interest lies in its historical and auteurist connotations...

Just this morning I read "Echoes of the Jazz Age," F. Scott Fitzgerald's marvelous elegy for the Roaring Twenties. In it he w...

When I looked up this film I was surprised to see who it starred. Oh, I thought, a Griffith movie with W.C. Fields! Not long into viewing, I...

America was one of D.W. Griffith's most massive undertakings, on par with The Birth of a Nation almost a decade earlier. Like that film...

With Orphans of the Storm , D.W. Griffith returns to the epic form he revolutionized with The Birth of a Nation and Intolerance . Does he ...

Around 1920, D.W. Griffith was at the top of his game. He had founded United Artists with Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mary Pick...

By no intention of my own, but through the malfeasance of Netflix delays and mishaps and the distraction of a new DVR, the Auteurs series wa...

After the grand folly of Intolerance , D.W. Griffith turned out a number of features in succession, many about the Great War that America h...

As I noted last week, D.W. Griffith professed astonishment at the controversy surrounding Birth of a Nation , his 1915 epic. He followed it...

In 1915, D.W. Griffith released a masterwork, a full-length feature film with historical sweep, intimate detail, and a nimbleness unseen in ...

See Part One here . The second Biograph disc finally arrived after much delay, so tonight I picked up where I left off. I started with the...

Forward-looking and backward-looking, often at the same time, David Wark Griffith (1875-1948) provides a fascinating and somehow appropriate...

Directors, auteurs, filmmakers -- call them what you will. Certain individuals carry a presence into their work which makes them the undisp...