Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Louisville, KY on March 29 and 30

Lulu continues to get around, and around.... It's nice to see her in art museums. The newly released but not new digital restoration of the 1929 silent film, Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks as Lulu, will be shown on Friday and Saturday, March 29 and 30th, at Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky. There is no word about any musical accompaniment. More information about this event can be found HERE. (this info links includes a small gallery of images from the film.)

Here is what the event venue says:  

New Digital Restoration
Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora)
Directed by G. W. Pabst

Friday, March 29, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS

Saturday, March 30, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS

$12 | $8 Speed members

“G. W. Pabst’s extraordinary, erotic and tragic adaptation, Pandora’s Box, owes to the electrifying, photogenic and iconic presence of Louise Brooks”—Wally Hammond, Time Out

One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). Perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama Pandora’s Box.

Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she encounters.

Daring and stylish, Pandora’s Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Brooks’ dazzling individuality. 1929, Germany, DCP, with English intertitles, 141 minutes. Recommended for 16+.

Restored from the best surviving 35mm elements at Haghefilm Conservation under the supervision of the Deutsche Kinemathek with the cooperation of George Eastman Museum, the Cinémathèque Française, Cineteca di Bologna, Národní filmový archiv, and Gosfilmofond.

 

An article about this upcoming screening, which appeared in the local LEO Weekly, can be found HERE.

Want to lean more? A big, newly updated page about Pandora's Box can be found on the newly improved Louise Brooks Society website. Click on the film title to access the LBS filmography page devoted to the movie.

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