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Intolerance

1916

D.W. Griffith

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Robert Harron ...

7.8

4,984

Drama 'Intolerance' tells four tales, all widely separated in time, yet each loosely connected to the others by the title's theme: 'The Babylonian Story', 'The Christ Story', 'The Huguenot Story', and 'The Modern Story'.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"'Intolerance' launched ideas about associative editing that have been essential to the cinema ever since (...) In the use of crosscutting and action to generate suspense, the film's climax hasn't been surpassed."
		Philip French The Guardian	"Undoubtedly the modern story is the most compelling, the Babylonian one the most breathtakingly spectacular"
		The New York Times	"A stupendous spectacle (...) [Griffith] is a real wizard of lens and screen (...) An interesting and unusual picture"
		David Parkinson Empire	"It may seem flawed in a number of ways to some people but this is monumental cinema and essential viewing for true film enthusiasts (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Variety	"Words cannot do justice to the stupendousness of these battle scenes or feasts."
		Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune	"No single movie has ever stretched the cinema's contemporary artistic limits further than D. W. Griffith's great 1916 experimental epic"
		Kevin Thomas Los Angeles Times	"There has never been a movie quite like 'Intolerance', and few, if any, have been so influential."
		Bill Weber Slant	"D.W. Griffith’s masterpiece, likely the most influential film ever made (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"
		Aaron Cutler Village Voice	"[It] barrels forth like a freight train to condemn progress as mankind’s enemy."

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