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Diary Of A Lost Girl (Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen), the 1929 film that further cemented Louise Brooks' modern-day reputation as a screen icon on the level of Garbo, is released by Eureka Video on 21st May 2007 - win DVD!
A masterwork of the German Silent Cinema whose reputation has only increased over time, Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) traces the journey of a young woman from the pit of despair to the moment of personal awakening. Directed with virtuoso flair by the great G. W. Pabst, Diary of a Lost Girl represents the final pairing of the filmmaker with screen icon Louise Brooks, mere months after their first collaboration in the now-legendary Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora).
Brooks plays Thymiane Henning, an unprepossessing young woman seduced by an unscrupulous and mercenary character employed at her father’s pharmacy (played with gusto by Fritz Rasp, the degenerate villain of such Fritz Lang classics as Metropolis, Spione, and Frau im mond). After Thymiane gives birth to the child and subsequently rejects her family’s expectations for marriage, the baby is stripped from her care, and Thymiane is relegated to a purgatorial reform school that functions less as an educational institution and more like a conduit for fulfilling the headmistress's sadistic libidinal fantasies. When Thymiane at last manages to escape and learn the fate of her child, she despondently enters a brothel — where she nonetheless flourishes emotionally and sexually, and life begins anew.
With themes of prostitution and deliverance also at the centre of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1962 film Vivre sa vie, the French filmmaker paid homage to Louise Brooks’ captivating aura and beauty by having his lead actress (and then-wife) Anna Karina appear on-screen sporting “Brooksie’s” trademark bob haircut — and another star was born. In Diary of a Lost Girl, we rediscover this template for Anna-as-Nana, and come in contact with that enigmatic quality specific to the giants of the silent past, articulated so well by Gloria Swanson when she intoned in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., “We didn’t need dialogue — we had… faces.”
Two lucky winners can each grab the DVD!
Just email your answer and details to <a href="mailto:win@lastbroadcast.co.uk?subject= Diary Competition">win@lastbroadcast.co.uk</a> making sure Diary Competition is in the subject line
Question – When was the film originally released?
Answer – 1929
Good Luck!
Diary Of A Lost Girl (Tagebuch Einer Verlorenen), the 1929 film that further cemented Louise Brooks' modern-day reputation as a screen icon on the level of Garbo, is released by Eureka Video on 21st May 2007 - win DVD!
A masterwork of the German Silent Cinema whose reputation has only increased over time, Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen) traces the journey of a young woman from the pit of despair to the moment of personal awakening. Directed with virtuoso flair by the great G. W. Pabst, Diary of a Lost Girl represents the final pairing of the filmmaker with screen icon Louise Brooks, mere months after their first collaboration in the now-legendary Pandora’s Box (Die Büchse der Pandora).
Brooks plays Thymiane Henning, an unprepossessing young woman seduced by an unscrupulous and mercenary character employed at her father’s pharmacy (played with gusto by Fritz Rasp, the degenerate villain of such Fritz Lang classics as Metropolis, Spione, and Frau im mond). After Thymiane gives birth to the child and subsequently rejects her family’s expectations for marriage, the baby is stripped from her care, and Thymiane is relegated to a purgatorial reform school that functions less as an educational institution and more like a conduit for fulfilling the headmistress's sadistic libidinal fantasies. When Thymiane at last manages to escape and learn the fate of her child, she despondently enters a brothel — where she nonetheless flourishes emotionally and sexually, and life begins anew.
With themes of prostitution and deliverance also at the centre of Jean-Luc Godard’s 1962 film Vivre sa vie, the French filmmaker paid homage to Louise Brooks’ captivating aura and beauty by having his lead actress (and then-wife) Anna Karina appear on-screen sporting “Brooksie’s” trademark bob haircut — and another star was born. In Diary of a Lost Girl, we rediscover this template for Anna-as-Nana, and come in contact with that enigmatic quality specific to the giants of the silent past, articulated so well by Gloria Swanson when she intoned in Billy Wilder’s Sunset Blvd., “We didn’t need dialogue — we had… faces.”
Two lucky winners can each grab the DVD!
Just email your answer and details to <a href="mailto:win@lastbroadcast.co.uk?subject= Diary Competition">win@lastbroadcast.co.uk</a> making sure Diary Competition is in the subject line
Question – When was the film originally released?
Answer – 1929
Good Luck!
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