Janus Films

[crimlaw]

Criterion did release The Producers on laserdisc. Unlikely, but given their penchant for re-releasing their laserdisc releases on blu/4K whenever possible, I would think this would be the first Brooks release if given the opportunity.

[Hogfather]

Lumiere! Le Cinema
All I Had Was Nothingness
American Dream
Carol & Joy

[RSTooley]

Any shot that the acquisition of Carol & Joy signals an eventual special edition of Between the Temples or is this just wishful thinking on my part?

[The Elegant Dandy Fop]

Any shot that the acquisition of Carol & Joy signals an eventual special edition of Between the Temples or is this just wishful thinking on my part?

My gut instinct is no, but also, you never do know considering their great relationship with Sony. It was maybe my favorite feature last year and wouldn’t mind the release at all.

[RSTooley]

The film doesn't have a Blu-ray release anywhere, so I'd be thrilled with a release via Criterion.

[eerik]

Lumiere! Le Cinema

This is Lumière, l'aventure continue, correct? Listed runtimes don't quite match -- 106 minutes vs 104 minutes -- but close enough. Would be great to get it on Blu-ray (or even on a 4K disc). I've been checking at its French distributor Ad Vitam's social media sites from time to time, but it still only has a VOD release in France with no physical release in sight.

[Hogfather]

the site calls it Lumiere, Le Cinema!, but I'd bet you're right.

[Stefan Andersson]

Undercurrent, Kozaburo Yoshimura, 4K restoration courtesy of Janus:
https://www.academymuseum.org/en/progra ... e0a2b10492

[yoloswegmaster]

Looks like Janus has also picked up Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime, and will be screening it alongside the restoration for Serpent's Path in the spring next year.

[yoloswegmaster]

Janus Films has acquired H. Palmason’s The Love That Remains

They also picked up the rights to Pálmason's Joan of Arc.

[Lowry_Sam]

Looks like they were a twofer purchase. From the article,

All the newly announced Joan of Arc buyers also hold rights to The Love That Remains.

[hearthesilence]

MoMA just premiered a Janus owned film that’s certain to be released by Criterion:

Lumière, Le Cinéma! 2025. France. Directed by Thierry Frémaux. New York premiere. DCP courtesy Janus Films. In French; English subtitles. 105 min.

This year’s To Save and Project invites audiences to witness the birth of cinema with the New York premiere of Thierry Frémaux’s Lumière, Le Cinéma! (2025), about the pioneering achievements of the French entrepreneurs Auguste and Louis Lumière in the late 19th century. Introducing the screening on January 10 is Thierry Frémaux, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, the Institut Lumière, and the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France, the birthplace of these remarkable brothers. He brings a wealth of insight, history, and revelation to this journey back to the 1890s, when the Lumière Company, with their astonishing new invention, the cinematograph, made it possible for audiences to voyage around the world in moving pictures for the first time. Featuring gorgeous new restorations of more than 100 comedies, dramas, and travelogues—some famous, some forgotten, and some never before seen—and set to an evocative score of period music by Gabriel Fauré, this wondrous documentary enables contemporary viewers to imagine an entirely new language of storytelling unfolding film by glorious film. A weeklong theatrical run of the film will also take place at MoMA in March.

Frémaux explains they did this because a feature was more likely to get screened in theaters, and that was the main reason for restoring these glorious films - to return them to the big screen. It makes a huge difference and seeing them on the museum’s biggest screen was a revelation. When these films were made, they really wanted them to look like a window into life, and it’s startling how good these films look thanks to the careful preservation of the original negatives, something the brothers took the time to do when film preservation wasn’t really standard practice yet. (Peter Becker was there and I overheard him say he was knocked out by how everything looked.) About 150 films were sequenced for this feature, each less than a minute, and they are accompanied by subtitled narration so a home release might be appreciated as a way to remove the titles when a clean visual is preferred.

But watch it with the narration, it makes a great case as to why these early films had great artistry to them, as if the seeds for so much of cinema’s future was already being sown. Even self-reflexive filmmaking was quickly birthed in these films, and plenty of other details reveal these films to be quite modern and less “primitive” than one would think.

The closing highlights include a 75mm film that they were unable to project back in the day so over a century later this was its proper premiere.

It was quite the event, with Paul Schrader, Xavier Dolan, Julian Schnabel, Jerry Schatzberg (glad he’s back) and Isabella Rossellini in attendance, and she must’ve loved hearing the film compare the Lumières and Georges Méliès to her father and Fellini respectively.

[brundlefly]

Days and Nights in the Forest licensed for the US:
https://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/fi ... 1970-supp/

Days and Nights in the Forest seems long overdue for a Criterion release.

Wes Anderson just helped organize a restoration of it that aired at Cannes this year, so it's coming for sure.

Restoration trailer.

[zedz]

YES!!

[Michael Kerpan]

YES!!!!

[hearthesilence]

[dwk]

Pages added for
La maison des bois (1971)
Joan of Arc (2025)
Two Prosecutors (2025)

[swo17]

Hot damn

[ryannichols7]

can't wait for them to sit on the Pialat!!

[spectre]

The reemergence of the Eclipse line gives me some hope for that one, at least...

[Lowry_Sam]

Restoration trailer.

Nice, but the Janus logo in Toxic Avenger green is a bit of an eyesore.

[brundlefly]

Janus Films has acquired Sergei Loznitsa’s Two Prosecutors

Trailer.

[dwk]

Chime

[dwk]

Bellissima
Carlos

Rwgarding Carlos, some IFC licensed titles are starting to move over to Janus. The following are available digitally from Criterion
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
Gomorrah
The Secret of the Grain
Tiny Furniture

[dwk]

Janus Films Buys Alain Gomis’ Family Epic ‘DAO’ for North America