Intolerance
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Manufacturer: Kino Video
Starring: Lillian Gish, Douglas Fairbanks, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, F.A. Turner
Directed By: D.W. Griffith
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0738329026721
Format: Black & White
Label: Kino Video
Manufacturer: Kino Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Kino Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2002-12-10
Running Time: 197
Studio: Kino Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1916-09-05
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Summary: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, Kino's Great DVD
Comment: Don't waste your money on the cheapies, get the Kino DVD and the reviews on this site should be for that version, not others. It is unfair to Kino and customers alike. Kino has done a wonderful job restoring and putting Intolerance together. This film is overreaching and not as good as The Birth of a Nation but it tries to avoid avoid the offensive stereotypes and messages that The Birth of a Nation contained. The film tells the story of a modern couple who are impoverished and unable to take care of their child, the Babylonian defeat to the Persians and a death to a culture and the St. Bartholomew Massacres in France where Catholics killed Huguenots in a religious riot. The stories can be overwhelming and most interesting is the modern story but it is a good movie and artfully done. The second great American epic when only Italy seemed to be making them at the time. Griffith lost his shirt on this film, it did salve his reputation a bit as a Racist. This is one of the gotta see films in history and Kino took care of it very well.
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Summary: INTOLERANCE
Comment: UN VERDADERO CLASICO DEL CINE UNA JOYA, OJALA LOS RALIZADORES DE ESTA EPOCA VIERAN ESTA PELICULA, QUE HECHA EN 1916 SUPERA A MUCHAS DE HOY CON TODA LA TECNOLOGIA QUE TIENEN PARA USAR, ESTO SI ERA CREACION....GRACIAS
Customer Rating:
Summary: Decadent, Dazzling
Comment: First things first: I love this film. I love its unevenness. I love its drenched decadence and splendor. I love its inability to stay on a single track. I love that it avoids the bigotry of _The Birth of a Nation_. I love its weirdness.
I am bringing a postmodern sensibility to this 1916 film, but although this film frustrated viewers when it was originally released (film historian David Cook suggests that audiences found its four separate story lines too hectic to follow), it seems right in line with today's multi-tasking world. Is this a flawed film? In some respects yes. The film takes place in four different eras but is really only interested in exploring two of them (the present day and ancient Babylon). There are plenty of intertitles but they're not always helpful. Griffith's notion of _Intolerance_ doesn't seem very stable, and halfway through the film one realizes that Griffith himself perhaps didn't exactly know what he wanted to say. And then there's Griffith's stubbornness. Too many people wrongly read this film as Griffith's apology for the brilliant but bigoted _The Birth of a Nation_, but that is untrue. _Intolerance_ is Griffith's thick-headed, angry response to the critics who (rightly) attacked _Birth_ as bigoted. Despite these flaws, however, _Intolerance_ is a dazzling film. I am not at all surprised that _Intolerance_, more than _The Birth of a Nation_, inspired early Soviet cinema pioneers like Eisenstein.
My favorite moment: an extreme long-shot of the stairs of Babylon, which closes in to a full shot of funky dancers performing a choreographed version of "Walk like an Egyptian." Enjoy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: I bite my thumb
Comment: That's to stop my jaw dropping like a brick. The line comes from the Babylon story. The Mountain Maid (Daisy Mae?) also says she'll slap her girdle. Not a saying I'm familiar with. I have to be frank about this creation. The division into 4 parts is a help. I've only watched two, so far, Babylon and the Huguenots, and am giving the rest a rest for the time being. Also, I seem to have picked up the worse of the two versions: my disc lacks the coloured tintings. The visual vision is gob-smacking, as everyone agrees, but the rest is unbelievably naive. Considering the kind of literature that was being written during this decade, DWG seems hardly out of infant school. So you have to honour his achievements, without admiring them for their narrative sophistication. Everything in the Babylon story hovers uneasily between the comically bad and the overpowering. Allowances must be made, I suppose, but there's a limit to tolerance: not everything is acceptable.
After sitting through the next two stories: the Judean and the Modern, I revise my opinion upwards. The Judean is mercifully short, and makes its few points fairly effectively. There are one or two nice shots. Some inspired by the pious paintings of Victorian artists. The Modern story is quite coherent, and quite well-paced. The plot is fairly well conceived, and there's quite an element of suspense. Will the wrongfully convicted man get suspended, or will he be saved? These stories could have made 4 reasonable shorter separate films. They don't really mesh together too well. I can't quite face sitting through the whole lot from beginning to end. You have to acknowledge, however, that DWG certainly set the pattern for a lot of later film-making: I kept getting reminded of other movies that were made much later.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A larger than life epic
Comment: This epic film is larger than life. The film maker D. W. Griffith was trying to make a major statement about the human condition. How successful was he? Each viewer will have to decide for himself or herself. This movie came out after the well-know "Birth of a Nation," which put a positive face on the Ku Klux Klan and exhibits racist sentiments. This movie has a far different orientation, suggesting that intolerance has been the bane of human existence from early on.
He attempts to support this claim by juxtaposing four distinct episodes, in each of which intolerance is at the heart of conflict. The earliest (chronologically) is set in Jerusalem and focuses on the crucifixion of Jesus; next was a stunning portrayal focusing on ancient Babylon (one can scarcely imagine the lavish sets constructed for this scene); persecution of the Huguenots in 16th century Paris; the most recent episode occurs in his era and focuses on labor-management strife.
The scenes are separate, but he cuts between them. Sometimes this can be confusing; sometimes it is powerful.
Intolerance tends to win out more often than not, but the emotional impact of the various stories is considerable.
This is a sprawling story, somewhat overblown, probably too optimistic about defeating intolerance. But, all of that said, it is a powerful cinematic statement by D. W. Griffith.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: D.W. Griffith's Intolerance, Kino's Great DVD
Comment: Don't waste your money on the cheapies, get the Kino DVD and the reviews on this site should be for that version, not others. It is unfair to Kino and customers alike. Kino has done a wonderful job restoring and putting Intolerance together. This film is overreaching and not as good as The Birth of a Nation but it tries to avoid avoid the offensive stereotypes and messages that The Birth of a Nation contained. The film tells the story of a modern couple who are impoverished and unable to take care of their child, the Babylonian defeat to the Persians and a death to a culture and the St. Bartholomew Massacres in France where Catholics killed Huguenots in a religious riot. The stories can be overwhelming and most interesting is the modern story but it is a good movie and artfully done. The second great American epic when only Italy seemed to be making them at the time. Griffith lost his shirt on this film, it did salve his reputation a bit as a Racist. This is one of the gotta see films in history and Kino took care of it very well.
Customer Rating:
Summary: INTOLERANCE
Comment: UN VERDADERO CLASICO DEL CINE UNA JOYA, OJALA LOS RALIZADORES DE ESTA EPOCA VIERAN ESTA PELICULA, QUE HECHA EN 1916 SUPERA A MUCHAS DE HOY CON TODA LA TECNOLOGIA QUE TIENEN PARA USAR, ESTO SI ERA CREACION....GRACIAS
Customer Rating:
Summary: Decadent, Dazzling
Comment: First things first: I love this film. I love its unevenness. I love its drenched decadence and splendor. I love its inability to stay on a single track. I love that it avoids the bigotry of _The Birth of a Nation_. I love its weirdness.
I am bringing a postmodern sensibility to this 1916 film, but although this film frustrated viewers when it was originally released (film historian David Cook suggests that audiences found its four separate story lines too hectic to follow), it seems right in line with today's multi-tasking world. Is this a flawed film? In some respects yes. The film takes place in four different eras but is really only interested in exploring two of them (the present day and ancient Babylon). There are plenty of intertitles but they're not always helpful. Griffith's notion of _Intolerance_ doesn't seem very stable, and halfway through the film one realizes that Griffith himself perhaps didn't exactly know what he wanted to say. And then there's Griffith's stubbornness. Too many people wrongly read this film as Griffith's apology for the brilliant but bigoted _The Birth of a Nation_, but that is untrue. _Intolerance_ is Griffith's thick-headed, angry response to the critics who (rightly) attacked _Birth_ as bigoted. Despite these flaws, however, _Intolerance_ is a dazzling film. I am not at all surprised that _Intolerance_, more than _The Birth of a Nation_, inspired early Soviet cinema pioneers like Eisenstein.
My favorite moment: an extreme long-shot of the stairs of Babylon, which closes in to a full shot of funky dancers performing a choreographed version of "Walk like an Egyptian." Enjoy!
Customer Rating:
Summary: I bite my thumb
Comment: That's to stop my jaw dropping like a brick. The line comes from the Babylon story. The Mountain Maid (Daisy Mae?) also says she'll slap her girdle. Not a saying I'm familiar with. I have to be frank about this creation. The division into 4 parts is a help. I've only watched two, so far, Babylon and the Huguenots, and am giving the rest a rest for the time being. Also, I seem to have picked up the worse of the two versions: my disc lacks the coloured tintings. The visual vision is gob-smacking, as everyone agrees, but the rest is unbelievably naive. Considering the kind of literature that was being written during this decade, DWG seems hardly out of infant school. So you have to honour his achievements, without admiring them for their narrative sophistication. Everything in the Babylon story hovers uneasily between the comically bad and the overpowering. Allowances must be made, I suppose, but there's a limit to tolerance: not everything is acceptable.
After sitting through the next two stories: the Judean and the Modern, I revise my opinion upwards. The Judean is mercifully short, and makes its few points fairly effectively. There are one or two nice shots. Some inspired by the pious paintings of Victorian artists. The Modern story is quite coherent, and quite well-paced. The plot is fairly well conceived, and there's quite an element of suspense. Will the wrongfully convicted man get suspended, or will he be saved? These stories could have made 4 reasonable shorter separate films. They don't really mesh together too well. I can't quite face sitting through the whole lot from beginning to end. You have to acknowledge, however, that DWG certainly set the pattern for a lot of later film-making: I kept getting reminded of other movies that were made much later.
Customer Rating:
Summary: A larger than life epic
Comment: This epic film is larger than life. The film maker D. W. Griffith was trying to make a major statement about the human condition. How successful was he? Each viewer will have to decide for himself or herself. This movie came out after the well-know "Birth of a Nation," which put a positive face on the Ku Klux Klan and exhibits racist sentiments. This movie has a far different orientation, suggesting that intolerance has been the bane of human existence from early on.
He attempts to support this claim by juxtaposing four distinct episodes, in each of which intolerance is at the heart of conflict. The earliest (chronologically) is set in Jerusalem and focuses on the crucifixion of Jesus; next was a stunning portrayal focusing on ancient Babylon (one can scarcely imagine the lavish sets constructed for this scene); persecution of the Huguenots in 16th century Paris; the most recent episode occurs in his era and focuses on labor-management strife.
The scenes are separate, but he cuts between them. Sometimes this can be confusing; sometimes it is powerful.
Intolerance tends to win out more often than not, but the emotional impact of the various stories is considerable.
This is a sprawling story, somewhat overblown, probably too optimistic about defeating intolerance. But, all of that said, it is a powerful cinematic statement by D. W. Griffith.
Four separate storues are interwoven: the fall of babylon the death of christ the massacre of the huguenots & a comtemporary drama all crosscut & building with emourmous energy to a thrilling chase & finale. Studio: Kino International Release Date: 12/10/2002 Starring: Miriam Cooper Margery Wilson Run time: 1916 minutes Director: D.w. Griffith
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