Diary of a Lost Girl
Written by Rudolf Leonhardt
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Germany, 1929
In just two collaborations, the German director Georg Wilhelm Pabst and the Kansas-born Louise Brooks created a screen personality that left a permanent mark on the history of film. The iconic Brooks—impeccably dressed, seductively smirking, short, jet-black hair—had been seen in films prior, most notably in Howard Hawks’ A Girl in Every Port (1928), but it was in Pabst’s Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl (both released in 1929) that this embodiment of tumultuous 1920s mores struck a strong and enduring chord.
Brooks in these two Pabst features could not be more dissimilar, however. Lulu, the freewheeling temptress of Pandora’s Box, is miles away from Thymian, the young, naive innocent of Diary of a Lost Girl. As this latter feature begins, Thymian enters the picture all in white, in accordance with her recent confirmation.
Written by Rudolf Leonhardt
Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Germany, 1929
In just two collaborations, the German director Georg Wilhelm Pabst and the Kansas-born Louise Brooks created a screen personality that left a permanent mark on the history of film. The iconic Brooks—impeccably dressed, seductively smirking, short, jet-black hair—had been seen in films prior, most notably in Howard Hawks’ A Girl in Every Port (1928), but it was in Pabst’s Pandora’s Box and Diary of a Lost Girl (both released in 1929) that this embodiment of tumultuous 1920s mores struck a strong and enduring chord.
Brooks in these two Pabst features could not be more dissimilar, however. Lulu, the freewheeling temptress of Pandora’s Box, is miles away from Thymian, the young, naive innocent of Diary of a Lost Girl. As this latter feature begins, Thymian enters the picture all in white, in accordance with her recent confirmation.
- 10/27/2015
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Louise Brooks in G. W. Pabst's Diary of a Lost Girl Louise Brooks' 1929 silent classic Diary of a Lost Girl, directed by G. W. Pabst, will be screened at 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 2 at Washington's National Gallery of Art. The presentation will feature live musical accompaniment by the Irish musical ensemble 3epkano, who will perform their own original score for the film. In the words of Thomas Gladysz at examiner.com, "Diary of a Lost Girl tells the story of Thymian, a young woman forced by circumstance into a life of prostitution. The film was based on a once controversial book by the German novelist Margarete Böhme. Though little known today, The Diary of a Lost Girl was a literary sensation when first published in 1905. One contemporary scholar has called it 'Perhaps the most notorious and certainly the commercially most successful autobiographical narrative of the early twentieth century.
- 12/9/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
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