Way Down East

The only real thing we found, and I'll do some further digging about any additional projects when we do our 90s roundup, but during the late 90s, he publishes A Moment with Miss Gish.

which is his account of hearing Lillian Gish, the silent film actress, speak at a function in 1958 following a screening of W.D. Griffith's Way Down East, and this was at the Museum of the City of New York.

It's about 28 pages.

I found that there was a first printing that was given away to employees and slash guests at a publishing house like Christmas Party.

Like, looking at the Letterboxd ones outside of the Oscar-nominated ones and then The Women and He Who G- Who, He Who Gets Slapped, it's a lot of, like, That's Entertainment and Hollywood Review and stuff like that.

Uh, D.W. Griffith's Way Down East, she's uncredited as barn dancer.

Um, and then just a lot of movies that I've just not heard of and don't really know anything about, like Lady of the Night and Idiot's Delight and Let Us Be Gay.

That's fun.

You know? And Chariots of Fire.

Like, that's what, you know, that's, I, I think most- Americans' entry into Olympics that they didn't live through, 'cause it's, you know, Academy Award-winning film and whatever, and it's like, "Oh, yeah, we, uh, we, uh, we already ran it back after World War I four years before," so.

I, I thought you were about to mention, like, Great Gatsby references.

We're in the '20s now, right? You know, like, uh, going, "Old sport" and all that kind of-

That's literally the plot-

Sorry, Jamie

... of the highest grossing Canadian film of all time.

Great movie.

But Griffith was kind of struggling for a while there.

You know, some, many, many good films, Orphans of the Storm, Way Down East, all beautiful in many ways and, and Lillian Gish is fantastic, uh, whenever she's on screen in his films.

But by '22, apparently, he was despairing, and he was telling an interviewer...

This is secondhand now.