Like Lulu, Pandora’s Box is a beautiful film with a troubled history. Controversial at the time of its making, criticized, censored, cut, and critically disregarded, Pabst’s 1929 film has emerged as one of the last great motion pictures of the silent era. Its restoration, and its redemption, have been decades in the making.

 

 

 

Thomas Gladysz is a Bay Area arts journalist and, since 1995,

director of the Louise Brooks Society. He edited the “Louise Brooks edition”

of The Diary of a Lost Girl.*

 

 

 

*(que je suis en train de regarder sur Youtube

assez surpris par l'excellente qualité de la copie)