Janus Films

[CSM126]

Starlet

Four-Letter Words

Prince of Broadway

[brundlefly]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the rights to Maura Delpero’s Vermiglio

Trailer.

[yoloswegmaster]

Janus have the rights to Will (1981) and Dutchman (1966). Have never heard of either title but they both look really interesting.

[therewillbeblus]

Dutchman is probably my favorite theatre adaptation. My writeup:

Well I’ve just seen Dutchman and I doubt if I’ve ever seen a more intense limited character chamber piece. While this is a film about social engagement across racial lines, Freeman is a tempered presence to comfortably convey any audience surrogate to the situation he finds himself forced into - and this kind of menace isn’t specific in an era of fears around sexualized weaponry. This feels like Pinter on steroids, and the claustrophobic intimacy we’re forced into with Knight’s unpredictable histrionic nightmare-personified is so entrancing and anxiety-provoking it reaches new levels for this idea. The medium of film is used well to push us into physical traps to signify the psychological ones. Knight gives one of the best, loudest performances I’ve ever seen in my life, and I recognize the hyperbole but it simply is. She uses her skills at exhibiting sexuality to exploit our own arousal levels throughout her seesawing insanity, and that’s not an easy thing to do to both excite and terrorize interchangeably. Actresses have tried to do this tirelessly over the years but never has one perf struck the polar extremes so masterfully so that we reach our breaking point right with Freeman after being helplessly seduced against our will. The characters remain mysteries in a daring authentic act so that all we get is our own psyches flaring up in a flood of provocative social discomfort. This isn’t my favorite film that is a theatre adaptation but it’s one of the best uses of the medium to capture the strengths of a theatre adaptation, and certainly the best social horror. This is 54 minutes but if it had been a minute longer my heart may have exploded.

[beamish14]

Dutchman is a major acquisition. I never thought that would get a legit release. A shitty tape upload has been on YouTube for ages

[domino harvey]

Dutchman is a masterpiece two-hander— hope they streamline this one getting a physical disc (though unfortunately we lost both stars in the last few years). It is also quoted by Godard in Masculin Feminin

[thekeystobarton]

For anyone wanting any scraps about Dutchman, director Harvey does discuss its filming a little bit on the archival commentary for The Lion in Winter (better than nothing, not like we're getting more from him now).

I really hope that Criterion makes the effort to get the current Mayor of Newark to sit for an interview and talk about his father's play. The text of this play is so intense and on prescient it ought to be held up right alongside Chayefsky's best works. For those who have never read the play or seen the film ever before, as we enter the next four years the time has never been more ripe to let this blow you away.

[dwk]

Flickering Ghosts of Loves Gone By (André Bonzel)
Will (Jessie Maple)
Calamity (Věra Chytilová)

[hearthesilence]

Calamity (Věra Chytilová)

I posted about this but I caught this and it’s a great-looking restoration of a great film.

[Ribs]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud

[Finch]

Nice! Pity they couldn't get Chime as a supplement. This NFT crap hopefully not catch on as a business model for film distribution.

[Stefan Andersson]

Picnic at Hanging Rock 50th anniversary, 4K, trailer:
https://www.darkhorizons.com/picnic-at- ... n-trailer/

[brundlefly]

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Trailer.

[Ribs]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day

[Buttery Jeb]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired Ira Sachs’ Peter Hujar’s Day

On a related note, Fandango at Home now has Sachs' The Delta available via The Criterion Collection

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

They’ve had The Delta for a little bit now if I recall.

[Buttery Jeb]

They’ve had The Delta for a little bit now if I recall.

Maybe that's the case. The film being credited to Criterion on Fandango was new to me.

[Hogfather]

Janus has finally fixed the ghost page for Luis Buñuel's Él.

[Blutarsky]

Janus has finally fixed the ghost page for Luis Buñuel's Él.

Hoping that this is a sign of some sort of box set for Buñuel’s 125th birthday this month. We have new restorations of Los Olvidados, Nazarin, and L’age D’or that premiered back in 2019 that have yet to see the light of day on home video.

[ryannichols7]

notable that L'Age d'Or has been out of print on disc on both sides of the Atlantic for some time now. so this would be a great remedy

[Matt]

L'Age d'Or enters the public domain in the US next year, so someone will surely put out a Blu-ray.

[brundlefly]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the rights to Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia

Trailer.

[Hogfather]

Janus has finally fixed the ghost page for Luis Buñuel's Él.

A new restoration of Luis Buñuel's Él will be showing at the Film Forum next month as "A Janus Films Release." The page on Janus Films has been updated accordingly.

[hearthesilence]

Janus has finally fixed the ghost page for Luis Buñuel's Él.

A new restoration of Luis Buñuel's Él will be showing at the Film Forum next month as "A Janus Films Release." The page on Janus Films has been updated accordingly.

I think this may actually be the same restoration that premiered at MoMA back in 2023 for To Save and Project. (George Harrison fans, his foundation contributed and gets a logo in the opening credits.)

[Matt]

There ought to be a statute of limitations on how long a restoration can be touted as "new."