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DeprongMori
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#501 Post by DeprongMori »

Ribs wrote: Thu Dec 17, 2020 6:34 pm Lincoln Center has announced new Janus restorations of THE MIRROR and DEMONLOVER.
Mirror and Demonlover now have pages up at Janus Films.

Also now listed is Mohammad Reza Aslani’s 1976 Chess of the Wind (Shatranj-e baad).
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#502 Post by yoloswegmaster »

Those pages have been up for a while, and was already announced on the previous page of this thread.
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#503 Post by jwd5275 »

headacheboy wrote: Wed Mar 24, 2021 12:30 am The Story of a Three-Day Pass is currently playing on Kanopy.
Story of a Three-Day Pass now up on the Janus website.
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#506 Post by hearthesilence »

jwd5275 wrote: Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:54 pm Alfred Radok's Distant Journey
Even lists Blu-ray as an available format - are they referring to the Second Run region-free BD or does that usually indicate Criterion's plans for a BD release?
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#507 Post by soundchaser »

That’s just a format for theatrical screenings — it’s not *necessarily* indicative of a Criterion disc. (But it’s also not a bad sign.)
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#508 Post by Roscoe »

Jordan's MONA LISA ran on TCM with Criterion and Janus logos -- and it looked cleaned up a good deal. Hoping for a Blu-Ray upgrade.
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#509 Post by Boosmahn »

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#510 Post by yoloswegmaster »

Pages for 5 of Kazuo Hara's documentaries are up on the site.
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#511 Post by yoloswegmaster »

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Ribs
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#512 Post by Ribs »

Included in Lincoln Center's summer programming announcement is that Janus will be releasing William Klein's Muhammad Ali, the Greatest.
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#515 Post by dwk »

I think that was just a reference to Tarantino buying the Vista.
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#517 Post by criterionsnob »

Also Powell's Bluebeard’s Castle restored by BFI and The Film Foundation. I've only seen this on YouTube in terrible quality. Hopefully it will appear in a future World Cinema Project box.
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#518 Post by Calvin »

It's not part of the World Cinema Project; it's more likely to appear as an extra on another Powell release, given its length.
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#519 Post by criterionsnob »

Janus 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure, surely with a disc to follow next year.
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dadaistnun
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#520 Post by dadaistnun »

Fantastic news! One of those rare films I find more frightening each time I see it. The first Kurosawa I saw and probably still my favorite.
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#521 Post by FrauBlucher »

There was a New Years Wacky Drawing a number of years ago that had an X in the cartoon that some guessed it was for Cure
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#522 Post by senseabove »

It was on Hulu with Janus bumpers that far back, iirc, so it’s been a very long time coming. But this is a newer restoration than Eureka released, right? I don’t recall that release ever being touted as 4K, or even a new restoration at all, really…
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#523 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian »

The MoC release was an older HD master and frankly it showed. Very excited to see an improved transfer, especially on UHD.
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#524 Post by andyli »

There's been a Japanese release with the new 4K restoration since the MoC blu-ray. Not sure about the French release. Anyways a Criterion Cure would be most welcome.
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#525 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo »

Thank god! I really hope fans of Memories of Murder check this out. I thought the MoC was quite good despite the subtitle flub in the beginning but given how that looked (let alone the HVE dvd) I knew it'd need a restoration. I'm really glad it's getting that theatrical rerelease because just the sound design makes it so incredible also Koji in one of my favorite performances ever.
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