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©-DR -LOULOU (Die Büchse der Pandora) de G.W.Pabst p35
23/06/2017 03:23
Pandora’s Box has been screened numerous times in the years since its rediscovery, and perhaps nowhere more often than in the San Francisco Bay Area.One of those screenings was witnessed by a local music producer, David Ferguson, another by a silent film enthusiast, Angela Holm. And although the prints they saw were in need of considerable work, both were mesmerized by Brooks’s performance. Together, their efforts led to the exquisite restoration screening at this year’s festival.
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©-DR -LOULOU (Die Büchse der Pandora) de G.W.Pabst p36
23/06/2017 03:31
Essay by Thomas Gladysz (fin)
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.
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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)
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©-DR -LOULOU (Die Büchse der Pandora) de G.W.Pabst p37
23/06/2017 03:35
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©-DR -LOULOU (Die Büchse der Pandora) de G.W.Pabst p38
23/06/2017 03:38
IMDB
User Reviews
Greatest Silent Film
14 April 1999 | by Vlad B. (United States) – (1)
Of all the silent dramas of the '20s, perhaps none is as compelling and inherently watchable as "Pandora's Box" of 1928. Amazingly, despite its age and completely different cinematic conventions, this G.W. Pabst picture continues to influence filmmakers worldwide. Made in Weimar Germany, it stars Louise Brooks, an American actress now considered the quintessential symbol of the flapper era. If not for her presence, the film would probably never have its incredible durability and cult status.
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©-DR -LOULOU (Die Büchse der Pandora) de G.W.Pabst p39
23/06/2017 03:42
She is the inspiration for Quentin Tarantino's Mia Wallace in both personality and sheer appearance. For the source of that chic haircut, look no further than Lulu,the proto-"femme fatale" played by Brooks. In a plot that could have come right out of a modern daytime talk show, she manages to destroy the lives of virtually everyone who loves her.
Lulu (an aspiring actress), is simultaneously involved with Dr. Schoen (a prominent, high-society man) and his son, while being pursued by a lesbian admirer. To make matters worse, she is "supervised" by a rather disgusting, shady, pimp-like creature impersonating her father. And that's only the beginning.
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