#D.W. Griffith

[hauntedbystorytelling]

A Gothic visual dialogue · 1926-1979

Film still from The Sorrows of Satan (D.W. Griffith, 1926), starring Adolphe Menjou, Carol Dempster, Ricardo Cortez and Lya de PuttiThe screenplay was based on the Victorian gothic novel by Marie Corelli (1895)

Watch the film on YouTube ~ link to this scene : here [...]

Read the novel on Project Gutenberg : The Sorrows of Satan or, The Strange Experience of One Geoffrey Tempest, Millionaire, A Romance : eBook view & read more on wordPress

Cover design for Bela Lugosi's Dead, the first single by the English post-punk band Bauhaus, released on 6 August 1979

Listen to «Bela Lugosi's Dead» on Bauhaus Official YouTube channel

#bela lugosi is dead #the sorrows of satan #album cover #D.W. Griffith #faust #film still #gothic rock #horror film #marie corelli #1970s #1920s #post punk #punk rock #ricardo cortez #satan #David Wark Griffith #visual dialogue #women artists #bauhaus punk band #women writers #bauhaus rock band

[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.

#united artists #charlie chaplin #mary pickford #douglas fairbanks #d.w. griffith #old hollywood

[iwatchfilmsbut]

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

#dario argento #jessica harper #giallo #italian horror #horror classics #horror #d.w. griffith #lillian gish #film stills #movie stills

[cine-poeme]

Intolerance (1916)

#veiled woman #intolerance 1916 #d.w. griffith #silent cinema #babylon

[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. 

#Harry Belafonte #BlackKkKlansman #Spike Lee #John David Washington #Adam Driver #The Birth of a Nation #D.W. Griffith #silent film #Civil Rights #Civil Rights Movement

[lairreparablefugadeltiempo]

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

#true heart susie #d.w. griffith #d. w. griffith #griffith #lillian gish #gif #cat #cats #1919 #silent film #silent movies #silent cinema #silent

[machetelanding]

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

#the sorrows of satan #horror #drama #movies #1926 #1920s #d.w. griffith #silent films #publicity stills #black and white

[adrian-paul-botta]

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

#lillian gish #robert harron #hearts of the world #d.w. griffith #1918 #promotional photos

[missdreamalot]

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

#lillian gish #dorothy gish #orphans of the storm #d.w. griffith #film #old hollywood #silent film

[davidhudson]

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

#d. w. griffith #d.w. griffith #cinema #film #movies

[picturessnatcher]

The Greatest Question (D.W. Griffith, 1919)

#the greatest question #d.w. griffith #d. w. griffith #griffith #silent film #silent movies #silent cinema #silent #gif #1919

[justbusterkeaton]

“Put a smile on yer face, can’t yer?”

In Go West (1925), Buster does a pastiche of the then very famous scene from the film Broken Blossoms (1919) with Lillian Gish

#buster keaton #lillian gish #go west #go west 1925 #broken blossoms 1919 #d.w. griffith #silent film actresses #silent movie stars #comedy #silent movies #1920s #silent film #golden age of hollywood #hollywood #1920s cinema #silent comedy #1910s

[citizenscreen]

D.W. Griffith, born on January 22, 1875 #botd

#d.w. griffith #old hollywood

[from1837to1945]

Home, Sweet Home (1914, D.W. Griffith)

#home sweet home 1914 #d.w. griffith #dorothy gish #lillian gish #henry walthall #henry b. walthall #favorite scene #really cute dorothy #i adore you mr. walthall

[itcanbefilmed]

The Mountaineer's Honor (D.W. Griffith, 1909)

#d.w. griffith #lilian gish #birth of a nation #the mountaineer's honor #silent film

[femaleziegfeld]

Sally of the Sawdust (1925)

#d.w. griffith