Getting a primped-up, digitally-restored one-night screening at Film Forum this Tuesday (May 13), D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916) is all at once the Moloch of cineastical good intentions ...

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.