Jean-Pierre Berthomé

Film scholar Jean-Pierre Berthome discusses Max Ophuls' original script for his 1952 film LE PLAISIR and its relationship to the three stories by Guy de Maupassant on which the script is based.

The Babylonian sets constructed in Hollywood for David W. Griffith’s 1916 film Intolerance immediately became part of cinematic folklore. They were over 40 metres high, 60 metres wide and 120 metres in depth, and the precision of the architectural details displays a maniacal attention to documentary-like accuracy.