"In an era devoted to escapism and the happy ending," writes film historian Kevin Brownlow, "Stroheim's obsession with realism must have seemed insane." The director abandoned the studio to shoot on the actual locations evoked in Frank Norris's novel McTeague, so that Greed, among many other things, … [Read more...] about Greed
San Francisco Silent Film Festival
The San Francisco Silent Film Festival is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public about silent film as an art form and as a culturally valuable historical record.