Louise Brooks Onscreen in Hollywood!

Louise Brooks Onscreen!

Louise Brooks in PANDORA'S BOX PANDORA'S BOX (35mm print) Starring Louise Brooks Saturday, February 29, 2020 - 8:00 PM Egyptian Theatre Hollywood Co-presented by the LA Phil, American Cinematheque and the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles With live musical accompaniment by composer and jazz pianist Cathlene Pineda along with trumpeter Stephanie Richards and guitarist Jeff Parker. Join us at 7:00 PM in the lobby, where author Thomas Gladysz will sign his book, Louise Brooks, the Persistent Star. Part of the LA Phil's Weimar Variations program focused on Germany's Weimar Republic (1919 - 1933) culture. Additional free programs at the Egyptian Theatre earlier in the day. 35 mm! PANDORA'S BOX (DIE BÜCHSE DER PANDORA) 1929, Janus Films, 110 min, Germany, Dir: G.W. Pabst As Henri Langlois once thundered, "There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks!" Here she proves it with one of the wildest performances of the silent era, as the dancer-turned-hooker Lulu who attracts men like moths to a candle. Politicians, titans of industry and the aristocracy are all part of the milieu Lulu inhabits as the story begins; her eventual descent to a criminal underworld underlines the fragility of German society between the wars. The combination of Brooks and director G.W. Pabst ("It was sexual hatred that engrossed his whole being with its flaming reality," she once said) is still astonishing. Tickets Price: $15 General. No vouchers. | 35mm print courtesy of the George Eastman Museum. Preservation funded by Hugh M. Hefner. | Book sales by Larry Edmunds Bookshop. Visit the ADSLA table in the lobby to find out about upcoming events! TICKETS Click above for advance tickets on Fandango or purchase at the box office. Parking: Parking at meters (some are only one hour) and in area lots $15-20. Metro Redline at Hollywood & Highland. Where: Egyptian Theatre 6712 Hollywood Boulevard Hollywood, CA 90028  website  Local Historic Dining: Miceli's Italian Restaurant (1949) Musso & Frank Grill (1919) The Roosevelt Hotel (new restaurants inside a vintage hotel)