Pandora's Box (1929)

Review: Pandora's Box (1929)

Director: G.W. Pabst

Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig,

Louise Brooks
Louise Brooks
Fritz Kortner
Fritz Kortner
Francis Lederer
Francis Lederer
Carl Goetz
Carl Goetz
Krafft-Raschig
Krafft-Raschig

Plot: Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.

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Hong Kong’s Studio One cinema club

Hong Kong’s Studio One cinema club

During an eight-month visit to Hong Kong in 1980-81, I took out a membership in a cinema club called Studio One. I recently came across the eight monthly schedules for their screenings and discovered that my memory of the movies I’d been to […]

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