Before Garbo, before Dietrich, we have Brooks! In 1928,Pabst took on Hollywood actress Louise Brooks in the title role of Lulu, who played successfully a diva who can at once be an innocent sweetheart and a predator of men. Because of her, we believe that Lulu can abandon man after man and still remains loyal to her true love. Pabst’s delightful camera works has successfully carved a beautiful silent with great sensitivity in female charms and human psychology.

The digital restoration of this film was spearheaded by film restoration expert Martin Koerber with George Eastman House as coordinating archive and produced by Big Sound LLC. The restoration went through a digital combination of three different source prints made available by Cinémathèque Française, Narodni Filmovy Archive, and Gosfilmofond via Cineteca di Bologna. Restoration software packages included Diamant, Fusion and Nucoda Filmmaster suite.

Film print courtesy of the Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

4/11*

(Sun)

12:00pm

Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

7/12

(Fri)

19:00pm

Cinema, Hong Kong Film Archive

*Post-screening talk with Li Cheuk-to, in Cantonese