Pandoras Box
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
30 December 1899, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
6 November 1899, Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
10 April 1862, Vienna, Austrian Empire [now Austria]
2 February 1913, Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
14 November 1906, Cherryvale, Kansas, USA
21 June 1891, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
January 03, 2010
The film...is more interested in the waywardness of almost everyone's longings and in their failures of self-preservation than it is about Lulu's particular immorality or recklessness.
February 27, 2013
The movie's horrifying and beautiful conclusion becomes more poignant and powerful with each passing year.
October 13, 2006
Brooks overwhelms the lens with her magnetic eyes.
December 24, 2006
"Pandora's Box" is a German silent film that Paris Hilton could relate to. She wouldn't like the way it ends, though.
October 12, 2006
If you've never seen Brooks -- or Pandora's Box -- you've missed one of the most extraordinary personalities and films of the silent movie era.
November 04, 2014
[VIDEO ESSAY] ["Pandora's Box"] can be construed as the first international LGBT film ever.
February 27, 2013
Louise Brooks, especially imported for the title role, does not pan out, due to no fault of hers. She is quite unsuited to the vamp type which was called for by the play from which the picture was made.
February 27, 2013
There is so much of modern movie life here that the picture, like Brooks' beauty, defies the ravages of time.
July 07, 2006
The movie remains one of the most insightful depictions of the elemental incongruity between man's nature and woman's.
February 27, 2013
If ever an actor was born to be seen in black-and-white it was Louise Brooks, who is as luminous as ever in this new restoration of GW Pabst's silent nightmare-melodrama.
February 27, 2013
One of the classic films of the German silent era.
June 15, 2006
2006 is the centennial of actress Louise Brooks, and to honor it, her greatest film, Pandora's Box, is being released in a new 35-mm print in New York's Film Forum before being taken around the country.