Intolerance

Pros: fantastic imagery, amazing production values, cutting-edge techniques
Cons: stupid story, stuffy style, pervasive pretentious silliness

Intolerance (1916) is D.W. Griffith's penance for Birth of a Nation (1915)- a film so racist, it boggles the mind. Growing up in the seventies, I'm used to whining and crying about tacit racism - like giving all the "mugger" roles to blacks and ...

Pros: Ambitious, spectacular, exciting--this is an epic of the silent movie era. A must-see for cinephiles!
Cons: Griffith's heavy-handed sermonizing can get tiresome and silly

By comparison, The Birth of a Nation was just a nibble.
Orphans of the Storm was a crumb.
Way Down East was nothing more than a diet plate—the celery and carrot sticks of D.W. Griffith’s career.

But...

Pros: cinematography, sets, Mountain Girl, action
Cons: story, characters

The Birth of a Nation caused a sensation in 1915. Far longer and more ambitious than previous features, the film changed the way that people perceived motion pictures. They were no longer simply a harmless form of entertainment. They could...

Pros: Still speaks to audiences today, as sweet-souled yet awe-inspiring as it ever was, it thoroughly blows away anybody willing to give into it. Said finale is something to see -- suspenseful, beautiful, sad, uplifting...Griffith was a genius, and this, my fri
Cons: Slow going, heavy mid-stretch, looks dated (what do you expect -- it's from 1916!) and bits of the work moving up to the magnificent final half hour are stilted.

By Max Scheinin.

Perhaps it is too late for audiences to rediscover D.W. Griffith; many of them shake off the films made before the sound era anyway, and certainly they'll have no greater desire to see a three hour epic about the fall of...

Pros: Griffith's direction, and the sublime Lillian Gish
Cons: none

Director, and film pioneer, D.W. Griffith was angered by the censoring, and in some states outright banning of his film, Birth Of A Nation, set out to make a statement; in the process he created a masterwork of silent cinema.

Intolerance tells...

Pros: Excellent Film
Cons: None

This film, directed by D. W. Griffith, "the father of filmdom," is, in my opinion, one of the greatest of all time. It skilfully weaves together four stories showing Intolerance through the ages and its negative effects. These are the...