The folks at the Brooklyn Public Library love Louise Brooks and silent film. They have shown Brooks' films a number of times. On Sunday April 14, the library is presenting a matinee screening of Diary of a Lost Girl, the once controversial Brooks' film from 1929. For those just discovering Brooks through her portrayal in the new PBS Masterpiece film, The Chaperone, here's a great opportunity to one of her great films. More information may be found HERE.
LOUISE BROOKS: SOULS LOST AND FOUND
DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (1929) 112 minutes
Germany
Kansas-born Louise Brooks traveled to Germany to collaborate with director Georg Wilhelm Pabst on two movies, Pandora’s Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), which is based on Margarete Böhme’s controversial and best-selling novel. She plays Thymian, the teenage daughter of a middle-class pharmacist, whose swift fall and slow rise begins after she is molested by her father’s assistant, becomes pregnant, is sent to a reform-school, and escapes to find refuge in a brothel in this tragic look at self-righteous bourgeois-hypocrisy, and the price of sexual-freedom, in a male-privileged culture and society.
Directed by G.W. Pabst.
Image courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc.
Live Piano Accompaniment by Bernie Anderson. Hosted & Curated by Ken Gordon.
Germany
Kansas-born Louise Brooks traveled to Germany to collaborate with director Georg Wilhelm Pabst on two movies, Pandora’s Box (1929) and Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), which is based on Margarete Böhme’s controversial and best-selling novel. She plays Thymian, the teenage daughter of a middle-class pharmacist, whose swift fall and slow rise begins after she is molested by her father’s assistant, becomes pregnant, is sent to a reform-school, and escapes to find refuge in a brothel in this tragic look at self-righteous bourgeois-hypocrisy, and the price of sexual-freedom, in a male-privileged culture and society.
Directed by G.W. Pabst.Image courtesy of Kino Lorber, Inc.
Live Piano Accompaniment by Bernie Anderson. Hosted & Curated by Ken Gordon.
All movie start times are 12:00 Noon. Central Library
does not open until 1 pm, but patrons attending film screenings may
enter the Dweck Center beginning at 11:45 am through the side entrance
on Eastern Parkway. Introductions begin promptly at 12:00 Noon.
Want to Learn more about Louise Brooks and Diary of a Lost Girl? Check out the Louise Brooks Society website and its Diary of a Lost Girl filmography page.
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