Pandora's Box (1929) CRITERION NTSC 2xDVD9

Description:

Die Büchse der Pandora, or Pandora's Box, is the story of a Lulu, a femme fatale whose innocent sexuality destroys the men around her.



CAST:

Louise Brooks .... Lulu

Fritz Kortner .... Dr. Peter Schön

Franz Lederer .... Alwa Schön

Carl Goetz .... Schigolch

Krafft-Raschig .... Rodrigo Quast

Alice Roberts .... Countess Anna Geschwitz

Gustav Diessl .... Jack the Ripper

rest of cast listed alphabetically

Sig Arno .... Instructor (uncredited)

Daisy D'Ora .... Charlotte M.A. von Zanik (uncredited)

Michael von Newlinsky .... Marquis Casti-Piani (uncredited)



CREDITS:

Studio: Nero-Film

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst (imdb)

Writing Credits: Screenplay by Ladislaus Vajda, adapted from the plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora by Frank Wedekind

Format: Silent - black & white

Cinematography: Günther Krampf

Editor: Joseph R. Fliesler

Art direction: Andrei Andreiev

Costumes: Gottlieb Hesch

Production dates: October 17 - November 23, 1928

Running Time: 9 reels

Release Date: January 30, 1929

Country of Origin: Germany



Disc Features



SPECIAL EDITION DOUBLE-DISC SET:



* New, restored high-definition 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

* Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu (1998), a 60-minute documentary

by Hugh Munro Neeley

* Lulu in Berlin (1971), a rare, 48-minute interview with Louise Brooks

by vérité documentarian Richard Leacock and Susan Steinberg Woll

* New video interviews with Leacock, about Brooks, and Michael

Pabstm the director’s son

* New and improved English subtitle translation

* Stills gallery

* PLUS: A book featuring Kenneth Tynan’s 1979 essay “The Girl

in the Black Helmet,” an article by Louise Brooks on her

relationship with Pabst, and a new essay by critic J. Hoberman

IMDB-link......: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018737/



Year.............: 1929

Country..........: Germany

Audio............: Silent with 4 musical scores - main with 5.1 option., rest all 2.0

Subtitles........: German intertitles - subs- English, None

Video Format.....: 1.18:1 Aspect Ratio

DVD Source.......: 2X DVD9

DVD Format.......: NTSC

DVD distributor..: http://www.criterion.com/asp/release.asp?id=358

Program..........: DVD>TOAST>DISK UTILITY>.ISO>xACT>MD5

Bit Rate.........: Average Bitrate: 7.34 mb/sMenus..........: [X] Untouched, intact.

[ ] Stripped



Video..........: [X] Untouched, intact.

[ ] Re-encoded



DVD-extras.....: [X] Untouched, intact.

[ ] Stripped

[ ] Re-encoded

[ ] None



DVD-Audio......: [X] Untouched, intact.

[ ] Stripped tracks*thanks goes to leclisse

*requested by paul.thomas.anderson. Enjoy!