Event
DIARY OF A LOST GIRL accompanied by BEN MODEL
Thursday, August 26 at 7:30pm Members $9 / Public $13
Ben Model, silent film accompanist for MoMA for over two decades, composes his own scores and performs in a
style that evokes the silent era and reflects a contemporary audience's appreciation of music www.benmodel.com
Diary of a Lost Girl represents the second and final work of one of the cinema's most
compelling collaborations: G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks. Together with Pandora's Box
(1928), Diary confirmed Pabst as one of the great directors of the silent period and established
Brooks as an "actress of brilliance,a beauty unparalleled in screen history." So wrote Kevin
Brownlow in The Parade's Gone By. Brooks, in a delicate, restrained performance, plays the naive
daughter of a prosperous pharmicist. Shy and fawnlike, this wide-eyed innocent is seduced and
made pregnant by her father's young assistant. To preserve bourgeois family honor, she is sent
to a repressive reform school from which she eventually escapes. Penniless and homeless, she
is directed to a brothel, where she becomes liberated and lives for the moment with radiant
absolute, physical abandon. An unexpected family development changes her forever.
Germany, 1929, 104 min., b/w
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LocationCinema Arts Centre
423 Park Ave.
Huntington, NY 11743
United States
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