Pandora's Box Blu-ray

'Pandora's Box' Director: G.W.Pabst (1929, 113mins) Eureka Masters of Cinema Blu-ray | 2K restoration | German intertitles w/ English subtitles

Adapted from a pair of plays by Frank Wedekind, Pandora’s Box tells the story of prostitute Lulu, a free spirit whose open sexuality breeds chaos in its wake.

Reviled and bowdlerised at its debut, Pandora’s Box has since been recognised as one of the masterpieces of early German cinema. A sordid melodrama made with great style, it affirms G. W. Pabst as a daring and important director and Louise Brooks as one of cinema’s most exquisite and distinctive performers.

Special features include:
- Orchestral Score by Peer Raben
- Audio commentary by critic Pamela Hutchinson
- The New Woman & The Jazz Age: The Dangerous Feminine in Pandora’s Box – Visual appreciation by author and critic Kat Ellinger
- Godless Beasts – Video essay by David Cairns
- Lulu in Wonderland – Video essay by Fiona Watson
- Restoring Pandora’s Box – Interview with Martin Koerber
- A collector’s booklet featuring an essay by film critic and historian Imogen Sara Smith, author of Lonely Places: Film Noir Beyond the City