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Pandora's Box: The Criterion Collection DVD

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  • Additional Details
  • Format: DVD
  • Rating: Not Rated
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Run Time: 133 Minutes
  • Region: 1 Region?
  • Aspect Ratio: Fullscreen
  • Language: German
  • Studio: Criterion Collection
  • DVD Release Date: November 28, 2006
  • Packaging: Custom Case
  • Subtitles: English
  • Audio:
    GERMAN: Dolby Digital 5.1
    GERMAN: Dolby Digital Stereo
  • Director: G.W. Pabst
  • Cast: Louise Brooks , Fritz Kortner , Francis Lederer , Carl Gotz , Alice Roberts , Daisy d'Ora , Krafft Raschig , Michael Newlinsky , Sig Arno , Gustav Diessl
  • Genre: Foreign
  • Color: Black & White
  • Includes:
    Four Different Musical Scores, Each with its Own Unique Stylistic Interpretation of the Film
    Audio Commentary by Film Scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane
    Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), a 60-Minute Documentary by Hugh Munro Neeley
    Lulu in Berlin (1984), a rare, 48-Minute Interview with Louise Brooks by Verite Documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll
    New Video Interviews with Leacock and Michael Pabst, the Director's Son
    PLUS: A book Featuring Kenneth Tynan's Famous 1979 Essay "The Girl in the Black Helmet," an Article by Brooks on Her Relationship with Pabst, and a New Essay by Critic J. Hoberman
  • Release Date: 1929
One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst's lurid, controversial melodrama Pandora's Box. Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. Daring and stylish, Pandora's Box is one of silent cinema's great masterworks and a testament to Brooks's dazzling individuality.

Expert Review:
Pandora’s Box is a masterful and controversial silent melodrama starring Louise Brooks as Lulu, a seductive but amoral showgirl whose sexual prowess has a devastating effect on the men she encounters. It’s no wonder – Lulu’s fashions are designed by Jean Patou and they are tantalizingly sexy. Without sound or color, Pabst creates an artful and daring picture for this time. Following the release of the film, Brooks made the iconic bobbed haircut and flapper girl style synonymous with the 1920s. By Sarah Chun of Shop The Shows

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