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Kino International is proud to announce the release of D. W. GRIFFITH
MASTERWORKS 2, comprised of five newly restored Griffith features, a rare Biograph short and the DVD release of Kevin Brownlow
and David Gill�s three-part documentary D.W. GRIFFITH: FATHER
OF FILM (1993).
Widely regarded as the father of American film, David Wark Griffith
(1875-1948) revolutionized the language of cinema and transformed a five-cent novelty into an art form. His historical epics and Victorian melodramas achieved
new heights of emotional richness, created unbearable dramatic
tension, and sparked controversies that continue to rage, nearly a century later.
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The Avenging Conscience (plus Edgar Allen Poe)
Director: D. W. Griffith
Country: U.S.
Year: 1914, 1909
Griffith indulged his lifelong fascination with Edgar Allan Poe in one tragedy-laden narrative of a young man who yearns to escape from his
overbearing, one-eyed uncle. Includes Griffith¹s 1909 short film EDGAR ALLAN
POE.
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Way Down East
Director: D. W. Griffith
Country: U.S.
Year: 1920
Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a Nation.
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Sally Of The Sawdust
Director: D. W. Griffith
Country: U.S.
Year: 1925
W. C. Fields stars as a lovable con man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif (Carol Dempster).
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Abraham Lincoln | The Struggle
Director: D. W. Griffith
Country: U.S.
Year: 1930, 1931
D.W. Griffith double-bill contains newly remastered versions of ABRAHAM LINCOLN and THE STRUGGLE.
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D.W. Griffith : Father of Film
Directors: David Gill, Kevin Brownlow
Country: U.K.
Year: 1993
Acclaimed three-part documentary tells the proud, sad story of D.W. Griffith: the man who first brought artistry and ambition to the movies, and then,
having dragged a reluctant American film industry to international
prominence, found it had no more use for him.
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