Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, shows in NYC on October 14

Following a recent screening of Pandora's Box in NYC, it has now been announced that... Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown at Film Forum in New York City on October 14 with live piano accompaniment by Steve Sterner. Start time is 3:10 pm. Further information and ticket availability may be found HERE.

From the Film Forum website: "(1929, G.W. Pabst) Louise Brooks is the “lost girl” wronged by circumstances and cast off first into a reformatory, then a Berlin brothel, where she’s spiritually and emotionally liberated. DCP. Approx. 112 min."

 “An elegant narrative of moral musical chairs... not only plays on who holds what kind of legitimate place in society, but is also a starkly direct view of inter-war Germany.”
– Time Out (London)

“Brooks exudes a hypnotic resilience, retaining a transcendent moral decency in a corrupt world.” – Philip French, The Guardian

Those who attend this event, or or thinking of attending this event, may want to check out the book that inspired the film, Margarete Bohme's controversial The Diary of a Lost Girl. In 2010, the Louise Brooks Society published the "Louise Brooks edition" of The Diary of a Lost Girl. This annotated and illustrated edition of Bohme's book features a lengthy introduction by LBS director Thomas Gladysz.

The 1929 Louise Brooks film, Diary of a Lost Girl, is based on a controversial and bestselling book first published in Germany in 1905. Though little known today, it was a literary sensation at the beginning of the 20th century. By the end of the 1920s, it had been translated into 14 languages and sold more than 1,200,000 copies - ranking it among the bestselling books of its time.

Was it - as many believed - the real-life diary of a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution? Or a sensational and clever fake, one of the first novels of its kind? This contested work - a work of unusual historical significance as well as literary sophistication - inspired a sequel, a play, a parody, a score of imitators, and two silent films. The best remembered of these is the oft revived G.W. Pabst film starring Louise Brooks.

This corrected and annotated edition of the original English language translation brings this important book back into print after more than 100 years. It includes an introduction by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society, detailing the book's remarkable history and relationship to the 1929 silent film. This special "Louise Brooks Edition" also includes more than three dozen vintage illustrations.

"Long relegated to the shadows, Margarete Böhme's 1905 novel, The Diary of a Lost Girl has at last made a triumphant return. In reissuing the rare 1907 English translation of Böhme's German text, Thomas Gladysz makes an important contribution to film history, literature, and, in as much as Böhme told her tale with much detail and background contemporary to the day, sociology and history. He gives us the original novel, his informative introduction, and many beautiful and rare illustrations. This reissue is long overdue, and in all ways it is a volume of uncommon merit." - Richard Buller, author of A Beautiful Fairy Tale: The Life of Actress Lois Moran

"Read today, it's a fascinating time-trip back to another age, and yet remains compelling. As a bonus, Gladysz richly illustrates the text with stills of Brooks from the famous film." - Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

"In today's parlance this would be called a movie tie-in edition, but that seems a rather glib way to describe yet another privately published work that reveals an enormous amount of research and passion." - Leonard Maltin, Movie Crazy

"Thomas Gladysz is the leading authority on all matters pertaining to the legendary Louise Brooks. We owe him a debt of gratitude for bringing the groundbreaking novel, The Diary of a Lost Girl, back from obscurity." -- Lon Davis, author of Silent Lives
"It was such a pleasure to come upon your well documented and beautifully presented edition." -- Elizabeth Boa, Professor at the University of Nottingham

The "Louise Brooks edition" of The Diary of a Lost Girl is available on amazon.com and at the George Eastman Museum gift shop in Rochester, New York and wherever better books are sold.

Thomas Gladysz also contributed the audio commentary to the 2015 Kino Lorber DVD / Blu-ray release of the film. Like his book, it too can be found on amazon.com and elsewhere.