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yoloswegmaster
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Re: Janus Films

#1001 Post by yoloswegmaster » Tue Nov 12, 2024 3:17 pm

What a lovely poster. I doubt they will change the cover when they decide to release the 4K upgrade but if they do, then I hope they change it to this.

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#1002 Post by dwk » Tue Nov 12, 2024 3:40 pm

They used the new theatrical art for the UHDs of Le samourai and The Rules of the Game, so I assume they'll do the same with The Wages of Fear (and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, if they are doing a new poster for it.)

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#1003 Post by Mr.DarjeelingLimited » Tue Nov 12, 2024 4:55 pm

dwk wrote:
Tue Nov 12, 2024 3:40 pm
They used the new theatrical art for the UHDs of Le samourai and The Rules of the Game, so I assume they'll do the same with The Wages of Fear (and The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, if they are doing a new poster for it.)
In The Mood For Love and 8 1/2 as well!

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#1004 Post by ryannichols7 » Tue Nov 12, 2024 5:38 pm

that's one of the best Janus posters I've seen in some time, I'd love a print of it + hope the upgrade uses that art, as everyone else has said. I love the BFI 4K but I've never owned any Criterion edition and want to for their unique extras, so that would be another incentive to get it..

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#1005 Post by dwk » Tue Nov 26, 2024 4:03 pm

Umbrellas of Cherbourg 4K poster
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#1008 Post by yoloswegmaster » Mon Dec 16, 2024 11:57 am

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

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#1009 Post by therewillbeblus » Mon Dec 16, 2024 12:30 pm

Dutchman is probably my favorite theatre adaptation. My writeup:
therewillbeblus wrote:
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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.

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#1010 Post by beamish14 » Mon Dec 16, 2024 1:00 pm

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

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#1011 Post by domino harvey » Mon Dec 16, 2024 1:02 pm

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

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#1012 Post by thekeystobarton » Mon Dec 16, 2024 9:44 pm

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.


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#1014 Post by hearthesilence » Sun Jan 12, 2025 9:24 pm

dwk wrote:
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Calamity (Věra Chytilová)
I posted about this but I caught this and it’s a great-looking restoration of a great film.


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#1016 Post by Finch » Fri Jan 17, 2025 10:26 am

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

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#1017 Post by Stefan Andersson » Fri Jan 17, 2025 3:40 pm

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

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#1018 Post by brundlefly » Wed Jan 29, 2025 2:38 pm

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Trailer.


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#1020 Post by Buttery Jeb » Tue Feb 04, 2025 2:44 pm

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

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#1021 Post by Mr.DarjeelingLimited » Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:01 pm

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

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#1022 Post by Buttery Jeb » Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:08 pm

Mr.DarjeelingLimited wrote:
Tue Feb 04, 2025 3:01 pm
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.

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#1023 Post by Hogfather » Thu Feb 06, 2025 7:35 pm

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

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