Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916)

This film is considered to be one of the masterpieces of the silent era and one of the most influential films ever made. The film intercuts four storylines that all deal with man's inhumanity to man. One part deals with the events in Jerusalem that led to Jesus' crucifixion; the second gives us the story of the St, Bartholomew's Day Massacre of 1572 and the conflict between Catholic and Huguenot; third, Ancient Babylon in 539 B.C.; the fourth part is contemporary to the film's release and deals with mill workers in 1915 being "reformed" by the wealthy blue-noses of the community and the catastrophic results for one couple in particular.

For anyone who loves movies and is interested in the development of the art form, INTOLERANCE should be seen at least once…and, if you haven't seen INTOLERANCE on the movie screen…you haven't seen INTOLERANCE.

In the words of esteemed film critic, Pauline Kael: "Griffith's epic celebration of the potentialities of the film medium ­ perhaps the greatest movie ever made and the greatest folly in movie history. It is charged with visionary excitement about the power of movies to combine music, dance, narrative drama, painting and photography ­ to do alone what all the arts together had done. In this extravaganza one can see the source of most of the major traditions of the screen ­ the methods of Eisenstein and von Stroheim, the Germans and the Scandinavians, and, when it's bad, DeMille. It combines extraordinary lyric passages, realism, and psychological details with nonsense, vulgarity, and painful sentimentality."

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