His CIA code name is Condor. In the next seventy-two hours almost everyone he trusts will try to kill him.

How does a director best cull a performance from an actor? One Austrian filmmaker, G.W. Pabst, encouraged enmity and distance on the set in the hopes that his players would bring a concomitant ...

Louise Brooks was the Platonic ideal of a silent film star. Gorgeous, funny, stylish and deeply expressive without uttering a single word, Brooks was a '20s icon who defined the sleek, empowered ...

Rochester, N.Y. — The Little Theatre is marking Silent Movie Day with two screenings of Georg Wilhelm Pabst's 1929 film "Pandora's Box," starring Louise Brooks. The timeless film follows the downward ...

In the 1920s, the burgeoning cinema industry opened the way to fame and fortune for actors, directors and technicians. Louise Brooks, grew up in Cherryvale, Kansas, to become first a dancer, a movie ...