While “The Birth of a Nation,” one of the most controversial films of the 20th century, was the talk of the town in 1916 in Rochester, at least one sober voice tried to connect movie-goers with ...

Prior to his premature death at age 45 in 1955, James Agee was our most artful composer of film criticism, and what he recommended, one would do well to check out. It might seem quaint now, but Agee ...

Before his Ku Klux Klan-promoting film “Birth of a Nation” (1915), D.W. Griffith codified Mexican characters and themes that persist today. The reprobate father. The saintly mother. The wayward son.

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