Tonight at 8 p.m., the Dryden will screen Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, Germany 1929, 133 min., 35mm) with live piano accompaniment by Philip C. Carli.

For James Card, there was only one Louise Brooks. The cineaste referred to his lifelong infatuation as an emotional devotion that had begun at the age of 14, calling Brooks an inadvertent femme fatale who could in no way be coquettish or even deliberately seductive—ideal for the role of Lulu in Pandora's Box, heroine of Frank Wedekind's beloved German plays. An innocently immoral sexual predator, Lulu discards and destroys men as she tries to get ahead, until she meets Jack the Ripper. The steamy story is a tangled web of intrigue and deception—the camera work, sets, and direction brilliantly economical, powerfully simple.

[source: Dryden website, 2015-Apr-13]