Pandora’s Box / Die Buchse der Pandora (1929) 2 x DVD9 Criterion Collection
on September 7th, 2016 at 09:56
It's all about a girl named Lulu who nobody can resist. She's a dancer who seduces everyone to get exactly what she wants. Trouble is, Lulu shakes society to its core by using sex as a weapon, and the consequences are terrible. Like the mythical figure alluded to in the title, the girl seems to unleash hell anytime someone falls for her. A father and son are ruined, show business moguls topple over in disgrace, her first husband finds himself shot, and his son flees the country as a chronic gambler. Ultimately Lulu herself attempts a fatal trick with an infamous serial killer on Christmas Eve.
2 x DVD9 | NTSC 4:3 | 02:11:03
7.26 Gb + 6.51 Gb + 3% rec
Language: Deutsch Intertitles, 4 musical scores
Subtitles: English
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Silent
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts
Country: Germany
Edition Details:
• New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the definitive Munich Film Museum restoration
• Four musical scores, each offering its own interpretation of the film (The Orchestral Score is "Gillian Anderson's approximation of what a European 'cinema palace' orchestra might have played." A Cabaret Score in the style of a Weimar-era cabaret is offered by composer Dimitar Pentchev. The Modern Orchestral Score is a contemporary take by composer Peer Raben, and Stephan Oliva presents an impressionistic Piano Improvisation as a fourth choice.)
• 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 documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll
• Interviews with Richard Leacock, about Brooks, and Michael Pabst the director's son
• Stills gallery
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