die büchse der pandora

[mmmender]

Originally posted by Maria Jose
But mmmender , I think we should have a word or two on Pandora's Box , the movie , considering that surely you named this very same section after it !

die büchse der pandora/pandora's box (1929)

G.W. Pabst's film that catapulted Louise Brooks to international acclaim and made her 'the' icon of the Jazz Age tells the tragic story of Lulu, the hedonistic dancer and prostitute. Based on the plays of F. Wedekind.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302919533.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[Maria Jose]

http://www.jk-cinema.com/a1029.gif

[mmmender]

louise brooks......

http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Louise.JPG

http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Louise/profile.jpg

[mmmender]

believe it or not........

the louise brooks society

http://www.pandorasbox.com/

[mmmender]

another louise brooks fansite.....

http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Louise/brooksie.html

[Maria Jose]

http://www.psykickgirl.com/lulu/images/sad.jpg


http://www.psykickgirl.com/lulu/images/bride_lulu.jpg


http://www.pandorasbox.com/louisebrooks/pix/archive/loulou/loulou2.jpg

[Maria Jose]

Posting many pix here but my own avatar has gone amiss . . .:rolleyes:

[mmmender]

http://www.showbizmall.com/ziegfeld/images/louise_brooks3.jpg

does she not remind you of Maria de Medeiros???

http://www.tvguidelive.com/images-people/m/maria_de_medeiros1.jpg

[mmmender]

a lovely louise brooks gown is on display at a paris museum.....

louise brooks gown (http://paris.fr/musees/Pavillon_des_arts/expositions/archives_expos/robes_cinema/page1.htm)

[mmmender]

i think it only fitting to copy cinders messages here......

"yes my relationship with the cocteaux goes back a long way.
we grew up not far from each other in central scotland.my
band,the freeze [1976-1982] often played in grangemouth,
home to robin & liz.robin's older brother was the local promoter.
robin's earlier bands sometimes supported us and liz was
nearly always in the audience.she danced like a punk dervish!
liz and i always had an [unspoken] internal connection,i imagine
that's why we sent those messages back and forth to each other
on our records.yes,i be the cindy of pandora.if i recall,i introduced
liz to the work of louise brooks [silent film actress] and her most
famous role,lulu,in the german expressionist film "pandora's box".
[directed by gw pabst.1929]."

"in case anybody is interested....

the freeze released a 7inch single in 1980 called "celebration",
it was written for and dedicated to louise brooks.i even sent
her a copy to her home in rochester,new york.she would have
received it "shortly" before she died.at that time she was only
a footnote in the history of cinema culture.i came across her
in an article in the observer [newspaper UK] magazine in 1979.
i was first transfixed by the striking images but then awed by
her story.the intellect and the mischief.stunning.i then tried to
research more into her life but found it almost impossible to find
any really substantial information.the french loved her but nobody
else seemed to at that time [jean luc godard had tipped his hat
to her in the character of nana in his wondrous film "vivre
sa vie].this was a couple of years or so before her book "lulu in
hollywood" was published.after the freeze single came out,with
a mesmerising picture of her on the cover,i was inundated by
people asking who she was,so many that i had to write a pamphlet
on her to hand out to those that were interested.by that time,
she was beginning to get the recognition she deserved,both as
an actress and as a genuinely original woman of intellect
and substance.

p.s. i had to fight with the people who had the rights to the picture
i wanted to use [it's in the freeze section of www.cindytalk.org], at
first they refused me permission to use the one i had requested and
sent me a bunch of other possibilities but i was determined to use
one image in particular... i kept at them and eventually they agreed.
it was worth the fight as that particular image is stunning,almost as
cool as the first [big] pic maria jose posted,the one with the ultra cool
dress.mmm mmmm.i wants me one of those... btw that's the picture on the
book of the pandora's box screenplay that was the first ever book
i managed to find relative to LB.

p.p.s... anybody that has "camouflage heart"... if you listen really closely
at the beginning of "under glass"... i whisper the words "walk in,walk in
to my menagerie"... the opening lines to frank wedekinds lulu plays,from
which pandora's box originally comes from.

i'll shut up now

blink on the brink...
cindy x

[someotherian]

Originally posted by mmmender
louise brooks......

http://www.stanford.edu/~brooksie/Louise/profile.jpg
.. or 'Bob', as she was otherwise known... :)

btw who is Maria de Medeiros?

[Maria Jose]

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[Maria Jose]

Originally posted by someotherian

.. or 'Bob', as she was otherwise known... :)

btw who is Maria de Medeiros?


She was Anais Nin in Henry and June , she was Bruce Willis's wife in Pulp Fiction , she's from Portugal , she's a lovely actress !

[someotherian]

well i haven't seen Henry and June, and i don't remember Bruce Willis's wife in Pulp Fiction (actually i don't remember Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction! :eek: ), but at least now i know who she is, so thanks MJ!

[Maria Jose]

It was Pulp Fiction , wasn't it ?
Or am I staying up till too late and imagining things ?
Oh , dear !
Let's make it a Tarantino movie !

[mmmender]

Originally posted by someotherian

.. or 'Bob', as she was otherwise known... :)

btw who is Maria de Medeiros?

i love the bob haircut, i used to have one myself in the 80s.....

http://www.cocteautwins.org/~leesa/leesa/photos/eightiesB.jpg

and maria de mederios is an actress, she was in the film "henry & june" she played anais nin.

[watchlar]

oh it's the mender as kelly osbourne picture again roflmao (much thinner of course)

[mmmender]

oh dear

[someotherian]

Originally posted by mmmender
i love the bob haircut, i used to have one myself in the 80s.....
ah yes, i remember it well! :D
or pictures of it anyway. but i'm sure it was sort of bob-ish when i first knew you.. (?)

and i had a shirt like that too. was yours red and white?
i used to love mine.. called it my lumberjack shirt.

"i put on women's clothing.. and hang around in bars!" roflmao

[mmmender]

no it wasn't red and white it was red and black and it was very thin, not flannel like most flannel shirts of that sort.

my hair? no i didn't have a bob haircut when you first met me.