Premiere, 03/01/2007, p.97, "The extras constitute a great celebration of the star."
Entertainment Weekly, 12/01/2006, p.69, "Brooks' Lulu is enchantingly childlike....You can't take your eyes off her. Ditto Pabst's rich filmmaking..." -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly, 12/29/2006, p.112, Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 DVDs Of The Year" -- "[T]hrilling..."
New York Times, 11/28/2006, p.E3, "[With] themes and images that have continued to fascinate filmgoers and scholars....[S]till striking today..."
Film Comment, 01/01/2007, p.77, "G.W. Pabst's brilliantly complex and deeply affecting work captures the Weimar zeitgeist and endures as one of silent cinema's great accomplishments."
DVD Features:
Full Frame - 1.33
Audio:
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 - German
Subtitles - English - Optional
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary - Thomas Elsaesser; Mary Ann Doane
Featurettes - 1. "Louise Brooks: Looking For Lulu" (1998)
2. "Lulu In Berlin" (1971)
Interview - 1. Louise Brooks - Star (1971)
2. Richard Leacock
Additional Product:
Books - Essays Collection
3. Michael Pabst
This classic silent German film tells of Lulu, a sensual chorus girl whose uncontainable sexual power literally destroys every man with whom she has an affair, until she encounters one of history's most notorious killers - Jack the Ripper. Considered particularly shocking at the time of its release because of the suggestion of a lesbian attraction between Lulu and a Countess. Brooks is at her sultry finest.