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Pandora's box [digital videodisc] / Janus Films.

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Irvington, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, [2006]

Criterion collection 358.

2 videodiscs (ca. 133 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (95 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)

Special edition features: Disc 1: 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. Disc 2: "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.

Follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone with whom she comes in contact.

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