D.W. GRIFFITH "THE NARROW ROAD" 1912 MARY PICKFORD
D.W. GRIFFITH'S INTOLERANCE PART 1
Birth of a Nation by D.W. Griffith - Trailer (1915)
D.W. GRIFFITH's ISN'T LIFE WONDERFUL PART 1 CAROL DEMPSTER
- Date of Birth: 22 January, 1875
- Place of Birth: La Grange, Kentucky, United States
- Biography: David Llewelyn Wark Griffith (January 22 1875 – July 23, 1948) was a premier pioneering Academy Award-winning American film director. He is best known as the director of the controversial and groundbreaking 1915 film The Birth of a Nation and the subsequent film Intolerance (1916).
Filmography
- Die Sonne. Der Kameramann. Eine Erfindung. (1995)
- Footlight Varieties (1951)
- Flicker Flashbacks No. 6, Series 5 (1948)
- Flicker Flashbacks No. 1, Series 5 (1947)
- Flicker Flashbacks No. 1, Series 1 (1943)
- One Million B.C. (1940)
- San Francisco (1936)
- The Struggle (1931)
- Abraham Lincoln (1930)
- Lady of the Pavements (1929)
- The Battle of the Sexes (1929)
- Drums of Love (1928)
News
TCM Picks the 15 Most Influential Movies
glam.com –
2009-04-16
Turner Classic Movies has released a list of the 15 most influential classic films of all time. The titles on TCM's inaugural list range from D.W. ... Full Article
Industry Miniseries For HBO!!
aintitcool.com –
2009-03-16
Entitled A RIBBON OF DREAMS, the miniseries will begin in 1913 and follow two men, one a college-educated mechanical engineer, the other a cowboy with a violent past, who form an unlikely producing partnership and together become pioneers and then... ... Full Article
Which David Will Save HBO?
nymag.com –
2009-03-15
The pitch: A mini-series revolving around a cowboy and an engineer who become some of Hollywood's first-ever producers, in 1913. The pair will work with luminaries like D.W. ... Full Article
From New Wave to tedious old hat
independent.co.uk –
2009-03-06
'All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun." This was the formulation that Jean-Luc Godard (borrowing from silent pioneer D W Griffith) came up with at the time of his first feature, Breathless (1960), one... ... Full Article
Formed back in 1919 by the famous Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks and D.W. Griffith, United Artists aimed to encourage progressive filmmaking and to give each star the authority and autonomy to create films in which they were passionate. ... Full Article
Clearly camera movement is a critical aspect of the way films work, in terms of both the kinetic energy it can provide and its employment as a storytelling device. ... Full Article