Tuesday, December 26, 2006

D.W. Griffith - Years of Discovery: 1909-1913 [DVD]

DVD contents (the titles with an asterisk I have seen in the last two days; the other titles I have seen earlier):

Those Awful Hats (1909)
The Sealed Room (1909)
The Red Man's View (1909)
Corner in Wheat (1909)
The Unchanging Sea (1910)
In the Border States (1910)
His Trust (1911) (*)
What Shall We Do with Our Old? (1911) (*)
For His Son (1912)
The Sunbeam (1912)
The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
The Female of the Species (1912) (*)
One Is Business, the Other Crime (1912) (*)
An Unseen Enemy (1912) (*)
The Painted Lady (1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
The New York Hat (1912)
The Burglar's Dilemma (1912) (*)
The House of Darkness (1913)
Death's Marathon (1913) (*)
The Mothering Heart (1913)
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913)
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Comments: Griffith is always interesting, but among the ones marked with an asterisk the only noteworthy one is 'The Female of the Species', which has a bold concept and a remarkable aesthetical appeal.

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