How does a director best cull a performance from an actor? One Austrian filmmaker, G.W. Pabst, encouraged enmity and distance on the set in the hopes that his players would bring a concomitant ...

Criterion Collection's double-disc set honors the film but also mines Louise Brooks' life and legacy and, as a side dish, that of director G.W. Pabst. Viewers will find themselves as transfixed as ...

A landmark film in the history of Weimar German cinema, G.W. Pabst’s Pandora’s Box (1929) is a sensually lurid depiction of a woman whose charm and beauty leads to the downfall of both her as well as ...

Seven years before she dazzled international audiences as the amoral Lulu in G.W. Pabst’s 1929 German masterpiece “Pandora’s Box,” Louise Brooks was a willful, intelligent and beautiful 15-year-old ...

There are few tragic heroines more alluring than Lulu, the heartbeat of Georg Wilhelm Pabst’s Pandora’s Box, brought to life by a performer whose image—the winsome, mischievous eyes, the glossy, ...