Pandora's Box - Official Restoration Trailer

One of the masters of early German cinema, G. W. Pabst had an innate talent for discovering actresses (including Greta Garbo). And perhaps none of his female stars shone brighter than Kansas native and onetime Ziegfeld girl Louise Brooks, whose legendary persona was defined by Pabst's lurid, controversial melodrama Pandora's Box. Sensationally modern, the film follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu, whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with. Daring and stylish, Pandora's Box is one of silent cinema's great masterworks and a testament to Brooks's dazzling individuality.

[@jimmymeridian5174]

Hope you do Diary of a Lost Girl as well that was my favourite of her two Pabst films

[@andrito1000]

Based on this trailer alone, it is VASTLY superior to the flawed Masters of Cinema , Eureka! relase, which had washed out "sepia", and the notirious digitally scrubbed "coin drop" moment at the beginning of the film. If this gets a Criterion 4k then all is right with the world for getting this title into high resolution.

[@Ifrit007]

While a massive improvement over the transfer BFI/Eureka/German BD got, it’s actually the same 2K restoration, just heavily modified or newly restored in 2K from digital scans. However, I’m curious if they were able to fix the coin issue. I seriously have no idea how the Deutsche Kinemathek let that one flawed transfer go on for as long as it did.

[@MontagTheMagician]

oh, boo hoo. I love the movie even if it's a beat up old 16mm print. Restorations are cool, and I appreciate all the hard work that goes into them, but I still love the atmosphere and experience of an old film that's been through the projector a hundred times. Something that can't be faked. People who have to make a Congressional case out of every single black spot on the screen are whiners.

[@samspencer582]

@@MontagTheMagician You are so right and these old classics should never be in 4K and too much digital in an old movie and even digital in new movies destroy the feeling of real movies and cinema.

[@thevoid99]

i love this film. i hope there's a new blu-ray coming.

[@alexanderbucsis3825]

Eureka! just put out a beautiful set in Europe

[@emilsuda4101]

We don't want Eureka--we want Janus Films. It is superior to Master of Cinema.@@alexanderbucsis3825

[@mst311]

criterion bluray this October

[@campuzanofilm]

Amazing! Can't wait.

[@BirdArvid]

Wonderful; finally!

[@user-go7vy8gh2m]

Interesting Trailer

[@BabarKhan-oh6zq]

Stunning!

[@sdufg]

The J is silent.

[@samspencer582]

I actually prefer Eurekavideos Masters of Cinema release of this great classic. Eureka makes the best restorations of them all. I like Criterion too, but they don´t have so many good movies than Eureka.

[@velociraptor3313]

Marvellous.

[@ClaytonBanes]

English title cards it seems? (My hope would be German with English subtitles.)

[@MontagTheMagician]

I love the movie but the music is bloody awful. Someday a real composer will write some real music for these films instead of this tinkering doddering crap.