Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, to screen in Italy

Diary of a Lost Girl, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown at the Teatro di Fiesole in Fiesole, Italy (outside of Florence) on Saturday November 9, 2024. This screening is part of the Autunno Fiesolano 2024. Additionally, the film will be shown with live musical accompaniment by Remo Anzovino. More information and ticket availability can be found HERE.

According to a translation of the Teatro di Fiesole page, "A masterpiece of silent cinema, presented in a restored version, with a soundtrack composed and performed live by one of the most creative pianists on the contemporary scene. Diary of a Lost Woman comes back to life with the music of Remo Anzovino.

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst in 1929, Diary of a Lost Woman stars Louise Brooks, the first real movie star and a style icon, thanks to her legendary bob cut.

Remo Anzovino composed the film's soundtrack on commission from the Cineteca di Bologna, a very fortunate partnership – to which a degree thesis was also dedicated, at the Dams of Bologna – for a musician that critics have defined as the 'new true heir of the Italian tradition in film music'."

The film is being promoted under the Italian title of Diario di una donna perduta. Notably, it has also screened in Italy under the titles Diario di una perduta and Diario di una prostituta.

The accompanist, Remo Anzovino, is a prominent Italian composer, musician and criminal lawyer. He has accompanied many classic silent films, including Pandora's Box and Beggars of Life. His official website can be found HERE.

In 2010,  the Louise Brooks Society published a corrected and annotated edition of the original 1907 English language translation -- notably, this edition, the first in English in 100 years -- brought this important work of feminist literature back into print in English. It includes an introduction by Thomas Gladysz, Director of the Louise Brooks Society, detailing the book's remarkable history and relationship to the 1929 silent film. This special "Louise Brooks Edition" also includes more than three dozen vintage illustrations.  (Purchase on amazon.)

 

More about Diary of a Lost Girl can be found on the newly revamped Louise Brooks Society website on its Diary of a Lost Girl (filmography page).

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