#D.W. Griffith

[electronicartisanfury]

My own personal Mount Rushmore of Dracula's

Dracula's from top to bottom:

01. Max Schreck

02. Bela Lugosi

03. Christopher Lee

04. Gary Oldman

[citizenscreen]

United Artists was founded on February 5, 1919 #OnThisDay

Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith signing their contracts. Lawyers Dennis F. O'Brien and Albert Banzhaf stand behind them.

[picturessnatcher]

The White Rose (D.W. Griffith, 1923)

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Way Down East, D.W. Griffith, 1920

[iwatchfilmsbut]

Broken Blossoms (D.W. Griffith, 1919) // Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977)

[cine-poeme]

Intolerance (1916)

[dweemeister]

Harry Belafonte in BlacKkKlansman (2018)

Actor, singer, and civil rights activist Harry Belafonte died today at his home in New York City at the age of 96. Belafonte, whose acting career made him a contemporary (and the last surviving stalwart) of a generation that included Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Dorothy Dandridge, Ossie Davis, and Diahann Carroll, often took long hiatuses from moviemaking to pursue his musical and political interests. Despite a breakout 1950s in his acting career, Belafonte acted in zero films in the 1960s, at the height of the Civil Rights Movement. He would no longer be interested in working on films that contained no elements of social justice.

In his final narrative film appearance (and first since 2006), Belafonte appeared in Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman (2018) as an elderly activist recounting to young black activists the 1916 lynching of Jesse Washington (while paralleling Adam Driver’s character working undercover within a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan in order to root it out). One of the catalysts to Washington’s lynching was D.W. Griffith’s seminal The Birth of a Nation (1915) - a cinematically important but virulently racist work that gave rise to the modern KKK - which appears in the second half of this clip. 

[from1837to1945]

The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910, D.W. Griffith)

[lairreparablefugadeltiempo]

True Heart Susie (D.W. Griffith, 1919)

[wanderingmind867]

Luke Cage is having a rough time. Dealing with Cottonmouth, the other Power Man and the Wrecking Crew (with The Defenders). On top of that, he hasn't made money in days and claire temple walked out on him and left for L.A. No wonder he's planning to go and hunt her down. (Luke Cage, Power Man #22):

[machetelanding]

D.W. Griffith's The Sorrows of Satan (1926)

[adrian-paul-botta]

Robert Harron and Lillian Gish - promotional photograph for ''Hearts of the World'' (Griffith 1918)

[citizenscreen]

D. W. Griffith (January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948)

[coffeeandcinemaandmusic]

Lillian & Dorothy Gish on the set of Orphans of the Storm (1921).

[davidhudson]

D. W. Griffith, January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948.

[cladriteradio]

Here are 10 things you should know about Seena Owen, born 130 years ago today. A star during the silent era, her career was a casualty of the ascent of talking pictures—until she found a new path in Hollywood.