- Actors: Louise Brooks, Shirley MacLaine, Dana Delany, Roddy McDowall, Paolo Cherchi Usai
- Directors: Hugh Munro Neely
- Writers: Barry Paris
- Producers: Hugh Munro Neely, Carl H. Lindahl, Elaina Archer, Hugh M. Hefner, John J. Flynn
- Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language: English
- Region: All Regions
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
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- Studio: Vid Canada
- Release Date: Oct 1 2002
- Run Time: 60 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B00000IYRF
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #60,295 in DVD (See Top 100 in DVD)
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Produced in 1998 for Turner Classic Movies, this documentary is nearly as exceptional as its subject and just as fascinating. Born in Kansas, Louise Brooks rose from the Ziegfeld Follies to become a silent film icon. As biographer Barry Paris writes for this definitive hourlong profile (narrated by Shirley MacLaine), "Lulu" Brooks was "one of the most intensely erotic screen beauties of all time," and her rise, fall, and resurrection make for a fascinating personal history. Paris charts Brooks's controversial and often self-destructive course from Hollywood to Berlin (where she made cinema history in Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl), while insightful interviews and abundant film clips provide breathtaking proof of Lulu's undeniable beauty. Most revealing are clips from a 1976 interview with Brooks, who remained utterly unique, sharply intelligent, and tragically convinced that she'd failed at everything. Looking for Lulu serves as captivating proof that she was wrong. --Jeff Shannon
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Film's first and perhaps ultimate modern woman. "Louise Brooks: Looking for Lulu" explores the life of one of the silver screen's most enduring and provocative stars, the actress who created the sensual, yet innocent Lulu in G.W. Pabst's classic "Pandora's Box." Narrated by Shirley MacLaine, this critically acclaimed documentary combines rare film footage and photographs with interviews. Particularly fascinating is a previously unseen interview with Louise Brooks, filmed in 1976.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Documentary/ Biography originally made for Turner Classic Movies,
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This review is from: Louise Brooks Looking for Lulu (DVD)
This 1998 film is narrated by Shirley MacLaine (of "John Goldfarb Please Come Home" 1965 fame). We get to know Louise Brooks from her own words and those that met her. There is some great stock footage and in the end you feel that you know her better and that she actually talked to you.The ne3xt time you watch her movies you will see them through new eyes and a new appreciation for her acting style.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Oh Yes! Great Documentary!,
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This review is from: Louise Brooks Looking for Lulu (DVD)
This is a wonderful documentary with many interviews of personal friends and co-workers as well as famous celbrities today such as Dana Delany and Roddy McDowall. It is narrated wonderfully by Shirley MacLaine. I agree that it is a bit too short, I found myself longing for more - Lousie Brooks is such a fascinating woman in so many ways.If you're a fan, or you've just became curious about Louise Brooks, then you must get this DVD. It's based on the book by Barry Paris and really lets you see into the life of this charming and usual woman. I love Louise Brooks and I love this DVD.
5.0 out of 5 stars
lulu in hell & heaven,
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This review is from: Louise Brooks Looking for Lulu (DVD)
this is a great documentary about this talented woman whos was tortured... by her looks? by her brains? louise brooks is a great cult figure in europe. a denishawn dancer who turned into a follies glamour girl, than later an ingenue in silent movies who cemented her well deserved place in movie history with her explicit performance of "lulu" in "pandora's box". i don't think america was quite prepared for such a woman... much too open about her sexuality... beside her madonna looks like a pensionist nun... but the "industry" punished her for her freedom... can you imagine a movie star ending as a sales girl in bloomingdales? or (as some biographers mentioned) as an "escort"? her essays are among the most intelligent ones ever written about hollywood.this documentary is superbly well researched. one is introduced to this girl and becomes fascinated by the woman she turned into... rare scenes from an elderly brooks are a treasure as well as some "talkie" scenes from "the canary murder case"... a "must" for every movie lover... i definitely recommend it!!! ricardo leitner
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