DVD
Pandora's box
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Special ed. double-disc set ; full screen version.
Languages
German intertitles with accompanying musical scores ; optional English subtitles.
Performers
Louise Brooks (Lulu), Fritz Körtner, Franz Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts; Daisy d'Ora, Gustav Diessl, Michael von Newlinsky, Siegfried Arno.
Publication Information
Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection ; Chatsworth, Calif. : Distributed by Image Entertainment, [p2006]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sd., b&w. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 book (95 p.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
Set against the backdrop of Germany's Weimar Republic (1918-1933), 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.
Notes
Adapted from the plays "Erdgeist" (1895) and "Die Büschse der Pandora" (1904) by Frank Wedekind.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1929.
Kenneth Tynan's (1927-1980) article about silent film star Louise Brooks--The girl in the black helmet--appeared in a 1979 issue of the New Yorker.
Accompanying booklet entitled "Reflections on Pandora's Box."
Special features: New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the definitive Munich Film Museum restoration ; Four musical scores, each offering its own 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" (1971), a rare, 48-minute interview with Louise Brooks by vérité documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll ; New video interviews with Leacock, about Brooks, and Michael Pabst the director's son ; Stills gallery ; Book featuring Kenneth Tynan's 1979 essay "The girl in the black helmet", an article by Louise Brooks on her relationship with Pabst, and a new essay by critic J. Hoberman.