For his next film, Griffith had a breathtakingly original concept. “Intolerance,” screening once Saturday in a stunning new digital 167-minute restoration at the Castro Theatre, was not a huge ...
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 ...
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 ...