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Sep 2, 2001 · Lawrence is happy to play the role. And only role-playing would have done the job; an ordinary military hero would have been too small for this canvas. For a movie that runs 216 minutes, plus intermission, “Lawrence of Arabia” is not dense with plot details. It is a spare movie in clean, uncluttered lines, and there is never a moment when ...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai is a very different film than Lawrence of Arabia. To expect every film by David Lear to be like one of his other films is like to expect every film from a director to be like his other films, and that is like expecting every film to be the same. Your points about the film not being a narrative is very true though.
- Introduction
- Early Life and Influences
- Actor and Playwright
- The Biograph Years
- Judith of Bethulia
- Racist Masterpiece
- The Greatest Film?
- The Pinnacle, 1917–1925
- Contract Director, 1925–1930
- Decline and Fall, 1931–1948
Is there anyone today – any historian, any student of film, anyone with the least political sensitivity – who will dare to praise D.W. Griffith? The vicious racism of The Birth of a Nationprevents it from even being shown in most venues. The content of this one film, out of the more than 400 directed by Griffith, taints his entire oeuvre and preven...
David Wark Griffith was born on 22 January, 1875, on the family farm, Lofty Green, near Crestwood, Kentucky. Griffith’s father, “Roaring Jake” Griffith, had been a lieutenant colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, serving in the Kentucky Orphan Brigade under the leadership of its famed commander, General John C. Breckinridge. Jake wa...
David Wark Griffith, billed first as “Lawrence Brayington” and then as “Lawrence Griffith“, had a mostly undistinguished and obscure theatrical career. Appearing in touring stock companies or with Louisville theatre groups, he worked for years in the famously insecure and penurious conditions actors endured in turn-of-the-century America. Between e...
As Griffith remembered it, the first scenario he tried to pawn off on the managers at the Edison Studios was a plagiarised version of Tosca. They weren’t interested, but they were in search of experienced actors. And so Griffith (billed as “Lawrence Griffith”) lowered himself enough to appear in Biograph and Edison films as early as December, 1907....
Far from inventing the feature film, Griffith was very much a latecomer to feature production. Features were produced as early as 1906 in Australia, with a biography of Ned Kelly. The Vitagraph Company produced an American feature-length version of Les Miserables and The Life of Moses in 1909. By 1912–13, increasingly lengthy and spectacular featur...
Just why did D.W. Griffith choose Thomas Dixon’s The Clansman as the source material for his most ambitious work to date? The answer may be more complicated than a desire to express racist fantasies. Certainly, a Civil War story would appeal to the son of a Confederate officer. The 50th Anniversary of Lee’s surrender and the end of the Civil War lo...
Even before finishing The Birth of a Nation, Griffith started work on another film entitled The Mother and the Law. Starring Mae Marsh and Bobby Harron, the story lashed at Griffith’s critics by depicting reformers as frustrated old maids and nitwitted hypocrites. Segments also paralleled the story of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre in Colorado, during wh...
In 1917, Griffith travelled to England at the invitation of the British War Office’s film section. Wined and dined by the British aristocracy, given audiences with Queen Alexandra and Lloyd George, and acclaimed at the London premiers of Intolerance, Griffith was also escorted to the front lines in France. He was allowed to shoot British and French...
Griffith now faced the loss of his studio, and the loss of his financial independence, together with the breakup of his affair with Carol Dempster. He was now an employee of Adolph Zukor and the Famous Players Company, not The Master anymore. In 1925 he completed two undistinguished films starring W.C. Fields and Carol Dempster, Sally of the Sawdus...
Though Abraham Lincoln was an overwhelming critical success, audiences did not warm to it. After Schenck and United Artists allowed Griffith’s contact to expire, he went to work on an independent production. The Struggle (1931), starring Vaudevillian Hal Skelly and John Houseman’s wife Zita Johann, was a disaster from the beginning. Filmed in cramp...
A movie review by James Berardinelli. The historical epic has been a staple of the motion picture industry since the silent era. Over the years, it has evolved to mesh with the times and meet audiences' expectations. Viewers in the 1910s got D.W. Griffith's racist Birth of a Nation, while movie-goers in the 2000s were poleaxed by the trite but ...
Actor-playwright turned film director at the Biograph Co., Lawrence (D.W.) Griffith. D.W. Griffith is generally thought of as a product of his 19th-century upbringing. But anyone studying his output as a writer and director of films at Biograph from 1908 to 1913 must come to terms with “The Voice of the Violin” and numerous other examples of modernist thinking in his productions.
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Jun 10, 2022 · Lawrence of Arabia makes its standalone 4K debut in this new four-disc edition from Sony. The film is split across a pair of 4K Ultra HD platters while there’s a Blu-ray for a high-def copy of ...
