DON'T FORGET: The Silent Treatment and the Cinefamily Theater will screen the classic 1929 Louise Brooks film, Diary of a Lost Girl, on August 7 in Los Angeles, California. More information here. Showtime is 7:30 - tickets are $12.00.
Inside the Cinefamily Theater in Los Angeles, CA. Notice the portrait of Louise Brooks on the wall! |
"There’s
a reason the name Louise Brooks elicits sighs every time it’s mentioned
at the Cinefamily: her ferocious charisma and otherworldly beauty
cemented her status as an icon well before she retired from the silver
screen, at the age of 32. From her comic role opposite W.C. Fields to
multiple turns as troubled, willful heroines in the films of legendary
German Expressionist auteur G.W. Pabst, Brooks shines as an actress
capable of endless nuance and versatility — as she understood the impact
both her inner and outer beauty could bring to the screen. Here, in her
second and final collaboration with Pabst, Brooks gives a delicately
restrained performance as the naive daughter of a prosperous pharmacist
who stuns her clan by becoming pregnant. After being put through the
repressive reform school ringer, she escapes to a brothel where she
becomes liberated and lives for the moment with radiant physical
abandon. Pabst’s escalating nightmares are heightened by Brooks’
sensitive portrayal of a truly lost girl whose hard-earned redemption is
as beautiful a vision as the star herself.
Dir. G.W. Pabst, 1929, 35mm, 116 min. - See more at: http://www.cinefamily.org/films/the-silent-treatment/#the-silent-treatment-louise-brooks-in-diary-of-a-lost-girl"
See the movie? Read the book. Check out the "Louise Brooks edition" of Margarete Bohme's controversial bestseller, The Diary of a Lost Girl - available through Indiebound and Amazon.
See the movie? Read the book. Check out the "Louise Brooks edition" of Margarete Bohme's controversial bestseller, The Diary of a Lost Girl - available through Indiebound and Amazon.
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