Cinema: Die Büchse der Pandora (1929)

aka Pandora's Box

A vaudeville dancer (Louise Brooks) in Germany goes on the run when she accidentally kills her husband.

The showing was preceded by a small introduction into gay silent cinema in which Pandora's Box was used as an example by depicting one of the earliest lesbian couples on screen. Actually it was really a couple as described but a character played by Alice Roberts. This aspect is actually so small in the film that one of the gay cowboy films mentioned in the introduction would have served as a better example. But in actually this may of just been the better film full stop as it is wonderful. The huge downside to the showing however was the fact that it was shown straight off a DVD and not a print, i feel slightly cheated by that.