DW Griffith was a southerner ... most modern medium and technology and used it to look back, not forward. The camera lens became a kind of time machine, a deeply reactionary one in his hands.

Griffith's film The Birth of a Nation made pioneering use of advanced camera and narrative techniques, and its immense popularity set the stage for the dominance of the feature-length film.

Well, there are more — and nobler — reasons to watch D.W. Griffith's three-hour-plus, centuries-spanning 1916 epic "Intolerance." But the aforementioned accoutrements underscore just how ...

James Agee on D.W. Griffith, 1948 D.W. Griffith’s Birth ... Remember that when you stand in front of a camera!’” Intolerance weaves together four stories: the fall of Babylon in 539 B.C ...

Hailed for his techniques of narrative film-making, DW Griffith’s biggest hit was The Birth Of A Nation (1915), but despite glowing reviews, Intolerance did not do well at the box office.