Broken Blossoms - A Century of Film
How do I select the movie I pick each week? It’s not particularly scientific, I look through what I can easily find – which is very easy in the silent era, since everything is old enough to be in the public domain at this point, provided that it wasn’t lost completely, like The Miracle Man, which had the biggest box office of 1919 but no longer exists – and pick something that seems interesting in some way. In the case of Broken Blossoms, I picked it entirely because of the man who made it, D. W. Griffith. It’s impossible to talk about the silent era without talking about Grif...
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