The Louise Brooks Society blog is participating in the 2024 Luso World Cinema Blogathon. This blogathon celebrates the contributions of Portuguese-speaking peoples and their descendants to world cinema. This post is the third of three related posts. More information on the Luso World Cinema Blogathon, including a list of other participants and topics, may be found HERE. I would encourage everyone to check it out! Before I post something about the bits and pieces I've found searching the internet, I want to mention that I recently came across a six part podcast all about today's topic - Louis ..read more

The Louise Brooks Society blog is participating in the 2024 Luso World Cinema Blogathon. This blogathon celebrates the contributions of Portuguese-speaking peoples and their descendants to world cinema. This post is the second of three related posts. More information on the Luso World Cinema Blogathon, including a list of other participants and topics, may be found HERE. I would encourage everyone to check it out! I have been researching Louise Brooks for a long time, ever since I launched the Louise Brooks Society website back in 1995. Over those 29 years, I have come across all kinds of int ..read more

The Louise Brooks Society blog is participating in the 2024 Luso World Cinema Blogathon. This blogathon celebrates the contributions of Portuguese-speaking peoples and their descendants to world cinema. This post is the first of three related posts. More information on the Luso World Cinema Blogathon, including a list of other participants and topics, may be found HERE. I would encourage everyone to check it out! In the United States, stories about the movies and film stars weren’t limited to the country’s mainstream, English language press. In fact, in the 1920s and 1930s, there were as man ..read more

The Louise Brooks Society blog is pleased to announce it will participate in two blogathons in the month of May. The first is the 2024 Luso World Cinema Blogathon. This blogothon celebrates the contributions of Portuguese-speaking peoples and their descendants to world cinema. This fourth edition of the blogathon launches on Saturday, May 4, 2024. The heart of the event is Sunday, May 5, which is World Portuguese Language Day.  (UNESCO recognized the holiday in 2019.) The blogathon runs through Monday, May 6, 2024.  The Louise Brooks Society blog plans to post on each of the three da ..read more

Pandora's Box (1929), the sensational German silent film starring Louise Brooks, will be shown four times in London during the month of May. It is not explicitly stated which print will be shown, but as the  stated running time is 135 minutes and the musical accompaniment is noted as being the Peer Raben score, I will assume the print is the recently released restoration which is recently making the rounds. Further details about this mini-series can be found HERE.  This screening of the German film will be shown with English subtitles. The film comes with a PG certificate. The screen ..read more

King of Gamblers was released on this day in 1937. The film is a stylish low-budget crime drama about a slot-machine racket and the crusading reporter who uncovers it. Though a "B" picture, this almost noir was given an "A" treatment by director Robert Florey. More about the film can be found on the Louise Brooks Society website filmography page. Louise Brooks' role in the film, a minor part, was cut from the production shortly before release.  An opening sequence with "Jim Adams" (Lloyd Nolan) being jilted by "Joyce Beaton" (Louise Brooks) was shot but eliminated from the final cut. Prin ..read more

Overland Stage Raiders, starring John Wayne and Louise Brooks, will be shown at the Spaghetti Warehouse in Syracuse, New York on Monday, April 15th as part of a Western double bill.  This rare public screening of Brooks' last film is sponsored by the Syracuse Cinephile Society. More information about this event can be found HERE. To learn more about the film, be sure and check out the Overland Stage Raiders page on the Louise Brooks Society website. Otherwise, here is some information from the Syracuse Cinephile Society website: 4/15   “OLD MEETS NEW” WESTERN DOUBLE FEATURE. T ..read more

The 27th annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival is set to take place at the historic Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco’s Marina District beginning April 10 and running through April 14. This year, twenty-two live cinema programs will be shown -- each featuring a beautiful silent-era films (including some world premiere restorations) and each with superb live musical accompaniment More information about this year's event, including a complete schedule of films, ticket availability, etc... can be found HERE. A number of these programs stand out. For me, one of the most exciting ..read more

The recently released restoration of Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, will be shown in the Ted Mann Theater at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (6067 Wilshire Blvd.) in Los Angeles TODAY at 7:30 pm. This screening marks the "Los Angeles Restoration Premiere." The film is being shown as part of the Academy's series, "The Sewing Circle: Sapphic Icons of Early Hollywood." More information about the event can be found HERE.  According to the Academy website, "Pandora’s Box chronicles the life and ultimate downfall of the charming and amoral Lulu (Louise Brooks), whose somewhat imp ..read more

What is better than one? How about four! The Louise Brooks Society has learned that four Louise Brooks films previously thought lost will be released on DVD sometime within the coming year. Wow! Wow! Wow! and Wow! When I first became interested in Louise Brooks ever so long ago, I sometimes thought I would never see some of her more obscure films, let alone films which were once thought lost. But, miracles happen, dreams come true, and wishes are fulfilled .... I can't say more. Stay tuned to this blog and the Louise Brooks Society website for further information. It is always a thrill to see ..read more