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 man. The ...
Filmmaker D.W. Griffith - best forgotten as KKK booster or memorialized as ground-breaking director?
After the successful bid to tear down the Confederate flag from sites across the country, petitioners in LA want an iconic filmmaker's name, D.W. Griffith, scrubbed from an East LA school because of ...
D.W. Griffith is one of Hollywood’s most controversial figures. He is best known for making 1915’s cinematically revolutionary “The Birth of a Nation,” a film so racist it is often cited as the main ...
Some people see history as a linear progression, but Hollywood offers plenty of evidence that it’s cyclical. Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman,” which opens Aug. 10, is based on true events in the 1970s, ...
French filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier is one of the most admirable figures in cinema over the past 45 years. In 2003, we wrote that Tavernier belonged to a select group of contemporary directors whose ...
Is it possible to get past the controversy of Griffith's The Birth of a Nation to see his pioneering contributions to the language of movies? On DVD, the answer may be yes. (Credit: Bison Archives.) ...
CHAMPAIGN – Steve Beckett had expected the D.W. Griffith film "Abraham Lincoln," released in 1930, to be full of factual inaccuracies. After seeing it Friday during LincolnFest at the Virginia Theatre ...
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