Pandora's Box details
| Format: | PG DVD |
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| Starring: | Alice Roberts, Louise Brooks, Francis Lederer, Carl Gotz |
| Director: | Georg W. Pabst |
| Genres: | Drama - General, Gay/Lesbian - General, World Cinema - German |
| Studio: | SECOND SIGHT FILMS LTD. |
| Name | Discs | |
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Pandora's Box |
PG Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 2 hours 11 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 24 Jun 2002 |
| Main languages: | German |
| Dubbed: | English, German |
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Masterpiece
By PaXoMelun from Staffordshire , 26 May 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
I've heard so much about this movie and it still comes as a shock, just how good it is & how luminous Louise Brooks is. You get no indication from her still pictures, the shock that your system gets when you see her on film.
The still camera may have loved Monroe, but the Movie Camera adored Louise Brooks. I have never managed to watch Monroe in the Misfits, from start to finish, the air of doom always gets to me and I have to turn away. Pandora's Box has this feeling in spades, it took me three attempts to watch it through.
The final scene is a masterclass in minimalist film making.
The Louise Brooks documentary on the DVD is very good, but don't watch it first, to much is given away.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(15)Not like this, please
By Filmloveroxon (5 reviews) , 14 Sep 2011Everything lined up for a great watch at home. I'd read the Wedekind play behind this film, also Ken Tynan's rediscovery in... was it the Fifties?...of its star Louise Brooks then working at Macy's.
So why the long face?
First, because today's home viewing equipment (for most of us the TV monitor from standard DVD player) can't cope with such intense and emotion-based silent material. It lacks the depth required, the tone. This disc doesn't show an aspect ratio. I looked for a gorgeous Miss Brooks. Her legs were fat.
Secondly, if these films are to keep their public as masterpieces, they must be given full and thought-through intertitles. People want stories. Who are these characters? what are they about? No more conversations out of nowhere that we've seen going on frames ago.
I quit after half an hour, rather than risk losing this one.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Golly gee Louise!
By CurlyTop23 (6 reviews) from Newcastle , 15 Aug 2010If you are a fan of silent cinema or simply want to expand your horizons i definitely recommend this title!!!
This title sits at the top with some of the other great silent films - Fritz Lang's 'Metropolis' and 'M'; Hitchcock's 'The Lodger'; and F.W.Murnau's 'Nosferatu'.
The joy of this picture is the fabulous Louise Brooks. Her presence is so powerful and her very being, or the faint hint of a smile simply draws you in. I would love to have seen her take on more leading roles but unfortunately when she was offered European work and international success she turned it down.
Other wonderful features include the music score.
The only criticism i would have is that the run time is a little long and the ending a little strange but luckily Brooks carries the whole film beautifully.
DVD: There is an excellent documentary about Louise Brooks and her (short) career on the special features of the dvd.
The quality of the film is excellent but the intertitles seem a little too modern for the film, making for odd transitions at times.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Slow on the uptake
By WiseOldBob (37 reviews) from York , 09 Dec 2009Louise Brooks is absolutely brilliant, and if you only know her from that famous photo with the beads you'll be amazed at how vivacious an actress she is. Unfortunately it took an awful lot longer for things to happen in films back then, with directors like Pabst presumably assuming that the audience were a bit slow on the uptake, Consequently I found myself awfully bored by about the second hour, which didn't exactly endear the characters to me. The plot was interesting but once you'd got the idea of Brooks as a femme fatale then you've pretty much got the whole film. Interesting ending though!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Wonderful!
By a customer from St. Helens , 26 Jan 2009This is the first time I have watched a Louise Brooks film, amd I thoroughly enjoyed it. Louise Brooks is amazing to watch; you find it impossible to take your eyes off her. As Lulu, the young woman whose potent sexuality destroys everyone around her before destroying herself, she is amazing. The 'Looking for Lulu' documentary was also worth watching, as it was about Louise Brook's life and tumultuous career in Hollywood, as well as about the movie itself.- Was this review helpful to you?
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pandoras box
By ricky (361 reviews) from Hastings , 06 Sep 2008very old hard to understand not my cup of tea- Was this review helpful to you?
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