Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) 1928 | Directed by G.W. Pabst | VIDEO (AVI)

Synopsis :
German filmmaker G.W. Pabst's late-silent classic Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora) stars the hauntingly beautiful Louise Brooks as libertine dancer Lulu. Ever out for the "main chance," Lulu persuades her wealthy lover Dr. Schön (Fritz Kortner) to marry her. But in a fit of jealous rage, he pulls a gun, a scuffle ensues, and she shoots him. Eventually escaping to London with the doctor's moonstruck son Alwa (Francis Lederer), Lulu takes up residence with her "adopted" father Schigolch (Carl Götz), where she is reduced to walking the streets, with tragic consequences. Pandora's Box (based on two works by the controversial German writer Franz Wedekind) exudes smoky sensuality in every frame; regarded now as a masterpiece, the film received surprisingly scathing reviews, with most of the critical broadsides aimed at Louise Brooks (this was long before Brooks graduated from just another pretty Hollywood starlet to Cult Goddess).  Hal Erickson
Title : Pandora's Box (1928)
Original title : Die Büchse der Pandora
Directed : G.W. Pabst
Duration : 109 min.
Original card : German
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese
Genres : Drama, Romance, Crime
Country : Germany  

Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) 1929 | Directed by G.W. Pabst | VIDEO (ISO)

Synopsis :
German filmmaker G.W. Pabst and Hollywood expatriate Louise Brooks re-team after the success of Pandora's Box for the silent film Diary of a Lost Girl. On the day of her confirmation, innocent young Thymiane Henning (Brooks) is given a lockable diary as a present. She's distraught because the housekeeper Elisabeth (Sibylle Schmitz) is leaving under curious circumstances and turns up presumably dead. Her duties are taken over by the conniving Meta (Franziska Kinz), who accepts the advances of Thymiane's pharmacist father (Josef Ravensky). Trying to understand Elisabeth's fate, Thymiane agrees to meet her father's assistant, Meinert (Fritz Rasp). She passes out, he carries her up to her room, and by the next scene she has borne a child by him. Meta snoops in Thymiane's diary and finds out it was Meinert's baby, so she suggests they get married. Thymiane refuses, so they throw her in a creepy reformatory for fallen women and leave her baby with a midwife. While in the reformatory, she meets Erika (Edith Meinhard), with whom she eventually escapes. To escape from poverty and homelessness, the girls then become nominal prostitutes in a brothel and are "sexually liberated."  Andrea LeVasseur
Title : Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Original title : Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
Directed : G.W. Pabst
Duration : 93 min.
Original card : English
Subtitles : English, Spanish, Portuguese
Genres : Drama, Culture & Society  
Country : Germany