Buchse der Pandora [2 Discs]
Features:
- New, restored high-definition digital transfer of the definitive Munich Film Museum restoration
- Four musical scores, each offering its own interpretation of the film
- Audio commentary by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), a 60-minute documentary by Hugh Munro Neeley
- Lulu in Berlin (1984), a rare, 48-minute interview with Louise Brooks, by vérité documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll
- New video interviews with Leacock and Michael Pabst, the director's son
- Stills gallery
- Plus: a book featuring Kenneth Tynan's 1979 essay "The Girl in the Black Helmet," an article by Brooks on her relationship with Pabst, and a new essay by critic J. Hoberman
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- Disc #1 -- Pandora's Box: The Film
- Select Score
- Orchestral Score: Stereo
- Orchestral Score: Surround
- Orchestral Score: About
- Play Stereo
- Play Surround
- Cabaret Score
- Cabaret Score: About
- Play
- Modern Orchestral Score
- Modern Orchestral Score: About
- Play
- Piano Improvisation
- Piano Improvisation: About
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- Chapters
- Color Bars
- Commentary
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- Commentary: On
- Index
- Commentary Color Bars
- Subtitles
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- Disc #2 -- Pandora's Box: The Supplements
- Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu
- Play
- Index
- Lulu in Berlin
- Play
- Richard Leacock on Louise Brooks
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- Michael Pabst on His Father, G. W. Pabst
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- Stills Gallery
- Subtitles
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- Disc #1 -- Pandora's Box: The Film
- 1. Logos/Opening Credits [1:34]
- 2. Act 1: Lulu's Apartment [6:58]
- 3. Act 1: Dr. Schon [8:20]
- 4. Act 2: Invitations [1:36]
- 5. Act 2: Countess Geschwitz [7:38]
- 6. Act 3: The Revue [14:20]
- 7. Act 4: The Wedding Reception [6:44]
- 8. Act 4: The Bridal Suite [12:50]
- 9. Act 5: The Trial [6:57]
- 10. Act 5: The Plot [2:30]
- 11. Act 6: Escape [7:17]
- 12. Act 6: Train to Paris [6:59]
- 13. Act 7: The Casino Boat [13:17]
- 14. Act 7: Alwa Starts to Win [10:46]
- 15. Act 8: London [3:49]
- 16. Act 8: Soho Loft [19:21]
- 1. Lulu's Origins [1:34]
- 2. Pandora's Box, Unique Classic [6:58]
- 3. Fritz Kortner and Louis Brooks [8:20]
- 4. A Bourgeois Apartment [1:36]
- 5. Countess Geschwitz [7:38]
- 6. Cinema and the Theater [14:20]
- 7. An American Lulu? [6:44]
- 8. Another Primal Scene [12:50]
- 9. Myth as Evidence [6:57]
- 10. The Crowd [2:30]
- 11. Consumerism [7:17]
- 12. Border Transgressions [6:59]
- 13. Exchange [13:17]
- 14. A Femme Fatale? [10:46]
- 15. The Final Man [3:49]
- 16. Leaving the Cinema [19:21]
- Disc #2 -- Pandora's Box: The Supplements
- 1. Introduction [3:01]
- 2. Lulu in Toe Shoes [11:30]
- 3. Lulu in Hollywood [15:43]
- 4. Lulu in Berlin [9:10]
- 5. Lulu in Hell [9:45]
- 6. Resurrection [9:28]
- 7. End Credits [1:09]
Year released: 1929
MPAA Rating: [ ]
Format: Black & White
Length: 133
Sound: 0/DD5.1/DD2
Subtitles: Ger/Eng
Studio: Criterion