G.W. Pabst's silent German classic is intact, restored and looking great. Louise Brooks is the virginal innocent betrayed on every level of the sexual double standard. Brooks is nothing less than amazing, with a performance that doesn't date, and Pabst only has to show how things are to make a statement about societal hypocrisy. German cinema doesn't get better. Diary of a Lost Girl Blu-ray Kino Lorber Classics 1929 / B&W / 1:33 flat / 112 min. / Tagebuch einer Verlorenen / Street Date October 20, 2015 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95 Starring Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert, Franziska Kinz, Edith Meinhard, Andrews Engelmann, Kurt Gerron, Siegfried Arno, Sybille Schmitz, André Roanne. Cinematography Sepp Allgeier, Fritz Arno Wagner Art Directors Erno Metzner and Emil Hasler Original Music Javier Perez de Azpeitia (Piano) Written by Rudolf Leonhardt from the novel by Margarethe Böhme Produced by Directed by G.W. Pabst
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The universally revered Louise Brooks...
Reviewed by Glenn Erickson
The universally revered Louise Brooks...
- 10/6/2015
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
So this isn't normally the kind of thing we would post on FEARnet, but ballet hasn't been this scary since Black Swan. Artist Javier Perez filmed ballerina Amelie Segarra dancing en pointe on knives. Pointe shoes take months just to learn to stand in; imagine doing it on the tip of a knife.
There are a few reasons I thought that FEARnet readers would be interested in this. First, it sounds like it would make an amazing Saw trap. Second, the short film - only three and a half minutes long - is loaded with danger. I'm sure there were plenty of safety measures in place, but it looks like she could fall and kill herself at any second. I sure didn't want to see that happen, but there was a morbid curiosity there. And third, the film is beautiful and tense. The cavernous theater, the quick edits that ramp up the longer she dances,...
There are a few reasons I thought that FEARnet readers would be interested in this. First, it sounds like it would make an amazing Saw trap. Second, the short film - only three and a half minutes long - is loaded with danger. I'm sure there were plenty of safety measures in place, but it looks like she could fall and kill herself at any second. I sure didn't want to see that happen, but there was a morbid curiosity there. And third, the film is beautiful and tense. The cavernous theater, the quick edits that ramp up the longer she dances,...
- 9/20/2013
- by Alyse Wax
- FEARnet
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