PANDORA'S BOX
Lulu / Die Büchse Der Pandora

Lulu, the quintessential femme fatale, wreaks emotional and physical havoc on a repressed doctor, his naive son and a lesbian Countess before finding her destiny with Jack the Ripper!

More than a half century later, Louise Brook’s performance, replete with her kittenish expressions and smoldering sexuality, remains one of the cinema’s greatest erotic dreams. No modern actress has even come close to recreating the sexual energy she projected on film.

Pandora’s Box was initially poorly received; The Germans objected to an American in the lead while much of the rest of the world objected to her sexuality. The film was banned and censored worldwide. In fact, one insanely censored version even had Lulu repenting her ways and joing the Salvation Army!

NYFA is pleased to present the complete, uncut edition of this erotic masterpiece from archive materials at the original silent film speed with added music score.

Directed by G.W. Pabst. Script; G.W.Pabst, Laszlo Wajda. photo; Günther Krampf. Cast; Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Franz Lederer, Gustav Diessl, Alice Roberts, Carl Goetz

Germany, 1928 110 min. ISBN 1-55881-181-8
$19.95

KAMERADSCHAFT
Comradeship / La Tragédie De La Mine

French miners are trapped below ground near the Franco-German border, and the Germans burrow through the underground frontier to rescue their comrades. A heartfelt plea for the international solidarity of workers, the film was largely lost and forgotten after WWII.

Directed by G.W. Pabst. Script; Laszlo Wajda, Karl Otten, Peter Martin. Photo; Fritz Arno Wagner, Robert Baberske. Cast; Ernst Busch, Alexander Granach, Fritz Kampers, Gustav Puttjer, Daniel Mendaille, Elizabeth Wenst.

Germany 1931. 80m.
Subtitled ISBN 1-55881-023-4
$19.95

THE THREEPENNY OPERA

Die Dreigroschenoper Mack the Knife stalks the London Soho underworld playing with the emotions of Jenny, his favourite whore, Polly Peachum, daughter of the Beggar King, and Lucy, the jailor's daughter. This extraordinary adaptation of the Brecht/Weil musical features highly stylized photography and a subtle political satire on Hitler's rise to power.

Directed by G.W. Pabst. Script; Leo Lania, Béla Balázs, Laszlo Wajda based on John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. Photo; Fritz Arno Wagner. Music; Kurt Weill. Cast; Wi Lotte Lenya, Rudolph Forster, Carola Nehe, Reinhold Schunzel, Fritz Rasp.

Germany 1931. 113 Minutes. German with English subtitles.
ISBN 1-55881-481-7
$19.95

JOYLESS STREET
The Street Of Sorrow / Die Freudlose Strasse

The daughter of a middle-class father ruined by Post WWI inflation, is faced with becoming a prostitute. An unusual change of pace heralding a new form of German filmaking that emphasized realism over expressionism. This was the 20-year-old Garbo’s third film and her last European film. Watch for a young Marlene Dietrich in a small part.

Directed by G.W. Pabst. Script; Willi Haas. photo; Guido Seeber, Kurt Oertel, Walter Robert Lach. Cast; Asta Nielsen, Werner Krauss, Greta Garbo, Valeska Gert, Agnes Esterhazy.

Germany 1925 80m.
ISBN: 1-55881-178-8
$19.95

A girl's life goes through a string of tragedies from seduction to a horrifying stay at a house of correction. Directed by G.W. Pabst. Louise Brooks.

Germany 1929 101 min.
ISBN: 1-55881-180-X

Currently out of print. A new edition will be available in the future.

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ROSELLINI's GERMANY YEAR ZERO
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LANG
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~ PABST
WEGNER
~ RIEFENSTAHL

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SILENT DRAMA BY DW GRIFFITH
SILENT DRAMA
WESTERNS
VALENTINO
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BEST OF THE WORST
THE WORLD OF ED WOOD
1960'S HORROR
GREAT DETECTIVES
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