|  This
breakthrough filmessay explores the strange case of G.W.Pabst,
the Austrian Film Director who was considered a giant of early
cinema before his reputation went behind a cloud. The film takes
us through his work with Garbo and Louise Brooks, and his making
of such classics as "Pandora's Box", "The Joyless
Street", and "The Threepenny Opera". But this is
no ordinary film tribute. For "The Other Eye", Johanna
Heer and Werner Schmiedel, have evolved a rich visual language
new to the documentary field, using a elaborate color structure
that reflects not only various moods but different periods of
time. The film's jazzy style and sophisticated narration probes
unflinchingly the controversy surrounding Pabst: What possessed
this liberal, cosmopolitan filmmaker to return to Austria in 1939
and direct movies for the Third Reich?
--THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL 1991, Film Society of Lincoln
Center
A List of Films made by G.W.Pabst
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