Die Büchse der Pandora [videorecording] : Variationen auf das Thema Frank Wedekinds Lulu = Pandora's box : variations on the theme of Frank Wedekind's Lulu / Janus Films ; Film Museum München ; ein Nero-Film ; Regie, Georg Wilhelm Pabst ; Drehbuch, Ladislaus Vajda ; Produktionsleitung, Georg C. Horsetzky ; Kameramann, Günther Krampf.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Edition:
Standard format (1.33:1).
Publisher:
Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
c2006
Description:
2 videodiscs (133 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (95 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.)
Louise Brooks : looking for Lulu. Lulu in Berlin. Shadow of my father : Michael Pabst on G.W. Pabst's Pandora's box. Reflections on Pandora's box. Opening Pandora's box. Girl in the black helmet. Pabst and Lulu.
Notes:
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig, Alice Roberts, Daisy d'Ora, Gustav Diessl, Michael v. Newlinsky, Siegfried Arno. Adapted from the stage plays: Erdgeist & Die Büschse der Pandora / by Frank Wedekind. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1929. "New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the definitive Munich Film Museum restoration"--Container. Accompanying booklet ("Reflections on 'Pandora's box'") includes essays by film critic J. Hoberman ("Opening 'Pandora's box'"), film critic Kenneth Tynan ("The girl in the black helmet"), & actress Louise Brooks ("Pabst and Lulu"). Special features (disc 1): Optional audio commentary by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser & Mary Ann Doane; Four different musical scores (orchestral score by Gillian Anderson, cabaret score by Dimitar Pentchev, modern orchestral score by Peer Raben, piano improvisation by Stéphan Oliva). Special features (disc 2): "Louise Brooks : looking for Lulu" (documentary film by Hugh Munro Neeley ; 1998, 60 min.); "Lulu in Berlin" (documentary filmmakers Richard Leacock & Susan Steinberg Woll interview actress Louise Brooks ; 1984, 48 min.); "The shadow of my father : Michael Pabst on G.W. Pabst's 'Pandora's box'" (interview with director G.W. Pabst's son by Richard Leacock ; 2006, 34 min. ; in German, with optional English subtitles); stills gallery.
Contents:
Disc 1. The film -- Disc 2. The supplements.
Summary:
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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