Although the picture consumes only 90 minutes, it somehow seems draggy, for the reason that everything other than the scenes with the three principals seems extraneous and tends to clog the ...

After the deeply divisive reception of "The Birth of a Nation," director D.W. Griffith released "Broken Blossoms," in which a young, abused girl finds comfort in the company of a kind Chinese man. The ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. As a young man, I read as much about the history of film as was possible. There were a lot of books on movies (a lot of them ...

In 1919 D.W. Griffith directed Hollywood’s first onscreen interracial love story between a white woman and a Chinese man. The movie was “Broken Blossoms” and the lovers were played by Lillian Gish as ...

Watch on DVD or Blu-ray starting May 11th, 1999 - Buy Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl DVD ...

Broken Blossoms (1919): I’ve always wanted to see this legendary silent weepy directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. And it did not disappoint. Lillian plays her speciality: a miserable ...

From a revered Little Tokyo stage, “Unbroken Blossoms” explores the Asian American experience of the silent film era, revealing dark truths about American film history — truths that resonate today.

Where Baudelaire slurred together sex and death, Claude Chabrol blurs genealogy and morbidity in The Flower of Evil and throughout his profuse career, which by now has turned out 50 features. Another ...