Janus Films

[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.

[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.

[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."

[CSM126]

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

[ryannichols7]

This 4K restoration was scanned from a dupe positive preserved by Películas y Vídeos Internacionales at the Filmoteca de la UNAM. Color grading was supervised by Gabriel Figueroa Flores. The restoration work was completed at L’Immagine Ritrovata in 2022. The Film Foundation extends special thanks to Guillermo del Toro and Daniela Michel.

three years later? is the hold up rights issues or the fact that they're actually going to roll out a larger Buñuel in Mexico set?

[CSM126]

This 4K restoration was scanned from a dupe positive preserved by Películas y Vídeos Internacionales at the Filmoteca de la UNAM. Color grading was supervised by Gabriel Figueroa Flores. The restoration work was completed at L’Immagine Ritrovata in 2022. The Film Foundation extends special thanks to Guillermo del Toro and Daniela Michel.

three years later? is the hold up rights issues or the fact that they're actually going to roll out a larger Buñuel in Mexico set?

Could just be that they prioritized other stuff. It wouldn’t surprise me if a bevy of big studio licenses seemed more pressing (ie more likely to draw money).

[ryannichols7]

This 4K restoration was scanned from a dupe positive preserved by Películas y Vídeos Internacionales at the Filmoteca de la UNAM. Color grading was supervised by Gabriel Figueroa Flores. The restoration work was completed at L’Immagine Ritrovata in 2022. The Film Foundation extends special thanks to Guillermo del Toro and Daniela Michel.

three years later? is the hold up rights issues or the fact that they're actually going to roll out a larger Buñuel in Mexico set?

Could just be that they prioritized other stuff. It wouldn’t surprise me if a bevy of big studio licenses seemed more pressing (ie more likely to draw money).

fair, but considering Del Toro mentioned this a few years ago on twitter, and we've seen Indicator even releasing Mexican films in a steady stream (double digits!), I have to question the priorities. with Criterion, the major studios seem content with waiting on them - we've known WB, Universal (especially the Dietrich/Von Sternberg titles), and MGM to have titles wait a long time with Criterion, so I just have to wonder. if this all pays off into a bigger boxset of titles I'll be really pleased - Bunuel's pre-1960 Mexican period has long suffered and considering Criterion's recent run of excellent rescues (Werckmeister Harmonies, Farewell My Concubine, etc), it would be lovely to see this finally come to fruition

[dwk]

This 4K restoration was scanned from a dupe positive preserved by Películas y Vídeos Internacionales at the Filmoteca de la UNAM. Color grading was supervised by Gabriel Figueroa Flores. The restoration work was completed at L’Immagine Ritrovata in 2022. The Film Foundation extends special thanks to Guillermo del Toro and Daniela Michel.

three years later? is the hold up rights issues or the fact that they're actually going to roll out a larger Buñuel in Mexico set?

Could just be that they prioritized other stuff. It wouldn’t surprise me if a bevy of big studio licenses seemed more pressing (ie more likely to draw money).

They most likely have release dates that they have to meet with most of those studio titles, so Janus stuff gets pushed back a bit.

[hearthesilence]

FWIW, a lot of restorations that I've seen at recent To Save and Project festivals haven't really been distributed that widely, whether they're major studio films or small independently owned films. I'm sure they've gotten one-off screenings somewhere, but many haven't had a theatrical run as far as I can tell (like a week at a repertory house) or a physical release. I still haven't seen the recent 4K restoration of F for Fake anywhere outside of those festival screenings at MoMA, which is a shame because it's a real improvement over the current Blu-ray release. The original MoMA listing I linked to even says "Courtesy Janus Films." (I'll also note the accompanying restoration of Ganjineha-ye Gohar (The Crown Jewels of Iran) was actually screened again a year later at MoMA for their program Iranian Cinema before the Revolution, 1925–1979.)

[andyli]

I still haven't seen the recent 4K restoration of F for Fake anywhere outside of those festival screenings at MoMA, which is a shame because it's a real improvement over the current Blu-ray release.

It has been made available by French label Potemkine for two years now. In fact, a lot of stuff with newer restoration that are supposed to be coming from Criterion are already released in the French market, such as Vivre sa vie, Letter Never Sent, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Pale Flower, Sans soleil, Él, Bellissima, The Burmese Harp, The Rozier films, Truffaut, Tanaka, Eustache, etc.

[ryannichols7]

I still haven't seen the recent 4K restoration of F for Fake anywhere outside of those festival screenings at MoMA, which is a shame because it's a real improvement over the current Blu-ray release.

It has been made available by French label Potemkine for two years now. In fact, a lot of stuff with newer restoration that are supposed to be coming from Criterion are already released in the French market, such as Vivre sa vie, Letter Never Sent, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Pale Flower, Sans soleil, Él, Bellissima, The Burmese Harp, The Rozier films, Truffaut, Tanaka, Eustache, etc.

legitimately had zero clue we had new restorations of Letter Never Sent and Sans Soleil, two huge favorites of mine. not to mention Pale Flower but I knew about that one, I hold out hope we'll see a surprise 4K announcement from CC. to all of that, let's get the ball rolling here! F For Fake could use a 4K from Criterion big time. we've gone a little while without a Welles