Reminder, Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, screens in Rochester, NY

This year, the now annual Silent Movie Day takes place on September 29, and to celebrate, the 95 year old Little Theater in Rochester, New York will screen Pandora's Box, which stars longtime Rochester resident Louise Brooks.

The Little Theater (240 East Ave. in Rochester) will screen Pandora's Box (1929) twice on September 29th, at 10:30 in the morning and 7:00 in the evening. More information, as well as ticket availability, can be found HERE. Thanks to Rochester resident Tim Moore for allowing me the use of this snapshot of the Little marquee.

According to the Little Theater website: "One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And 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 comes in contact with. Daring and stylish, Pandora’s Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Brooks’s dazzling individuality.

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."

This showing of Pandora's Box is certainly a special occasion. A local website, RochesterFirst.com, ran a story on the screening titled "The Little Theater celebrates it's 95th anniversary." It includes a WROC-TV interview with Little theater communications director Scott Pukos.

The Little Theater opened in 1929, the same year Pandora's Box was released. Over the years, it has become the area's leading venue for classic films. Notably, in the 1960s and 1970s, while Louise Brooks was living in Rochester, the then former actress would sometimes go to the Little Theater to watch movies. 

UPDATE 9/29/2024: the NPR affiliate in Rochester, WHAM, ran a story titled "Rochester's Little Theatre celebrates Silent Movie Day with 'Pandora's Box'". And what's more, the story mentions me, Louise Brooks Society director Thomas Gladysz.

More about Pandora's Box can be found on the newly revamped Louise Brooks Society website on its Pandora's Box (filmography page). 

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