In a previous Louise Brooks Society blog post, I noted that the 2009 restoration of Pandora's Box will receive a theatrical release through Janus Films. This release is meant for exhibitors like the Toronto Silent Film
Festival - who will be screening the 2009 restoration on April 12 in Canada.
See the prior LBS blog for details.
As it turns out, the Janus theatrical release will debut at Film Forum in New York City on February 14. And what's more, the film is set to run an entire week, through February 20. More about this historic event can be found HERE.
Here is some additional information about this week long screening from the Film Forum website.
Germany, 1929
Directed by G.W. Pabst
Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Music by Peer Raben
Approx. 141 min. DCP Restoration.
Sex in the City — Weimar Berlin: in the wake of Louise Brooks’ patent
leather-bobbed Lulu, men set up sleek Deco love nests, ruin themselves
gambling, and commit both murder and suicide, as she moves from kept
woman, showgirl, Lesbian love interest, widow, convicted criminal,
fugitive, and possible sex slave; amid a bustling backdrop of life in
post-war, pre-Hitler Germany. Pabst’s adaptation of the Wedekind plays
plucked Brooks from a waning career as Hollywood flapper to European art
film goddess. One of the last masterpieces of the cinema’s most
exciting era — with Brooks’ Lulu taking her place as one of the screen’s
most enduring creations. Orchestral musical score composed by Peer
Raben.
Restored from the best surviving 35mm elements at Haghefilm
Conservation under the supervision of the Deutsche Kinemathek, with the
cooperation of George Eastman Museum, and the collaboration of the
Cinémathèque Française, Cineteca di Bologna, Czech Film Archive, and
Gosfilmofond
With support from the R.G. Rifkind Foundation Endowment for Queer Cinema
– David Thomson, Moments That Made the Movies
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