DVD & Blu-ray: PANDORA'S BOX / DIE BUCHSE DER PANDORA (1929) - Criterion Collection

Product Description: One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst seemed to have an innate talent for discovering actresses. And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama Pandora’s Box. Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone around her. Daring and stylish, Pandora’s Box is one of silent cinema’s great masterworks and a testament to Brooks’s dazzling individuality.

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Director: G. W. Pabst

Starring: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance

Runtime: 141 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: German, Silent

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: October 15, 2023

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Region: Region A/1

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New 2K digital restoration
Four musical scores, by Gillian Anderson, Dimitar Pentchev, Peer Raben, and Stéphan Oliva
Audio commentary by film scholars Thomas Elsaesser and Mary Ann Doane
Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), a documentary by Hugh Munro Neely
Lulu in Berlin (1971), a rare interview with actor Louise Brooks, by Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll
Interviews with Leacock and Michael Pabst, director G. W. Pabst’s son
PLUS: An essay by critic J. Hoberman, notes on the scores, Kenneth Tynan’s 1979 “The Girl in the Black Helmet,” and an article by Brooks on her relationship with Pabst