The 1929 silent movie Pandora's Box, starring Louise Brooks, is one of my favourite films. I hadn't read the play until recently. The character who speaks the lines I quoted in my last entry, Alva, is much different in the movie, so I was surprised by the sexual-sexy-sex-sex of the lines. Although the Alva (Alwa) in the movie (played by Francis ( Read more... )

"You hold back the fire of my soul with the most dexterous art. And your breast breathes so virginally too. Yet if it weren’t for your two great, dark, childish eyes, I must needs have thought you the cunningest whore that ever hurled a man to destruction.

"Through this dress I feel your body like a symphony. These slender ankles, this ( Read more... )