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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community May 17, 2001
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
Summary: 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.
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 20, 2005
Pros: fantastic imagery, amazing production values, cutting-edge techniques
Cons: stupid story, stuffy style, pervasive pretentious silliness
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 11, 2000
Pros: cinematography, sets, Mountain Girl, action
Cons: story, characters
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 21, 2000
Pros: Excellent Film
Cons: None
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 23, 1999
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.
Summary: 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 ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 18, 1999
Pros: Griffith's direction, and the sublime Lillian Gish
Cons: none
Summary: 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 ... read more
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The greatest silent spectacle of all-time, this classic, directed by D.W. Griffith, is unparalleled as a work of cinematic art.
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D.W. Griffith’s masterpiece encompasses four stories (the modern era, Jerusalem, 1572 Paris, and Babylon), tackling both time and geography. Boastin...
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The greatest silent spectacle of all-time, this classic, directed by D.W. Griffith, is unparalleled as a work of cinematic art.
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Sometime during the shooting of the landmark The Birth of a Nation, filmmaker D.W. Griffith probably wondered how he could top himself. In 1916, he sh...
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D.W. Griffith's towering epic of man's inhumanity to man throughout the ages, Intolerance is considered the greatest film of the silent era and perhap...
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After Birth of a Nation, what do you do for an encore, especially after said film has branded you a racist? D.W. Griffith, the silent era's king of th...
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D.W. Griffith's towering epic of man's inhumanity to man throughout the ages, Intolerance is considered the greatest film of the silent era and perhap...
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After Birth of a Nation, what do you do for an encore, especially after said film has branded you a racist? D.W. Griffith, the silent era's king of th...
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D.W. Griffith's towering epic of man's inhumanity to man throughout the ages, Intolerance is considered the greatest film of the silent era and perhap...
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