Pandoras Box

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.

One of the classic films of the German silent era.

Brooks overwhelms the lens with her magnetic eyes.

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.

The movie remains one of the most insightful depictions of the elemental incongruity between man's nature and woman's.

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.

[VIDEO ESSAY] ["Pandora's Box"] can be construed as the first international LGBT film ever.

The movie's horrifying and beautiful conclusion becomes more poignant and powerful with each passing year.

There is so much of modern movie life here that the picture, like Brooks' beauty, defies the ravages of time.

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.

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.

"Pandora's Box" is a German silent film that Paris Hilton could relate to. She wouldn't like the way it ends, though.