![]() But as Tynan made clear, watching this movie is hardly an archival experience. ![]() Pabst's 1929 melodrama has earned its place in film history, where his name and Brooks's are duly recorded. If so - and, for that matter, if not - then you should direct your steps to Film Forum, where a restored print of "Pandora's Box" is currently on view, with live musical accompaniment. In short, the only star actress I can imagine either being enslaved by or wanting to enslave and a dark lady worthy of any poet's devotion." She is a prairie princess, equally at home in a waterfront bar and in the royal suite at Neuschwanstein a creature of impulse, a creator of impulses, a temptress with no pretensions capable of dissolving into a giggling fit at a peak of erotic ecstasy amoral but totally selfless. Brooks reinforced by second viewing of 'Pandora.' She has run through my life like a magnetic thread - this shameless urchin tomboy, this unbroken, unbreakable filly. I hope you won't object if I cede the floor, for a moment, to a superior critic, Kenneth Tynan, who wrote the following ecstatic passage in a youthful journal and quoted it, "unflinchingly," in a 1979 New Yorker profile of the silent film star Louise Brooks:
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