Lulu in hollywood expanded edition6/27/2023 For his movie, Pabst chose the title of the later work, though the screenplay differed markedly from Wedekind's original text: "Pandora's Box" belongs among the few films that have succeeded in improving on theatrical chefs-d"oeuvre. The script: adapted by Ladislaus Vajda from "Erdgeist" ("Earth Spirit") and "Die Buchse der Pandora" ("Pandora's Box"), two scabrously erotic plays written in the 1890s by Frank Wedekind, of which the second was a revised and expanded version of the first. Pabst, reigning maestro of German cinema in the late 1920s. I got to my set in time to catch the credits. Even for Channel 28, it was an eccentric piece of programming. None of this would have happened if I had not noticed, while lying late in bed on a hot Sunday morning last year in Santa Monica, flipping through the TV guide for the impending week, that the local public-broadcasting channel had decided to show, at 1 pm that very day, a film on which my fantasies had fed ever since I first saw it, a quarter of a century before. THE GIRL WHO WAS LULU Observer Magazine, Sunday 11 November 1979
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