4k Restoration of BEAU TRAVAIL opens 9/4 Virtually and In Person
31 Aug, 2020
New 4k restoration of Claire Denis' BEAU TRAVAIL opens digitally and in-person Friday 9/4!
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With his lush and sensual visuals, pitch-perfect soundtracks, and soulful romanticism, Wong Kar Wai has established himself as one of the defining auteurs of contemporary cinema.
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Suspended between carefree youth and the harsh realities of the adult world, a teenage girl experiences an unsettling awakening in this haunting vision of innocence lost.
Joyce Chopra United States, 1985
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With her ravishingly sensual take on Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, Sailor, Claire Denis firmly established herself as one of the great visual tone poets of our time.
Claire Denis France, 1999
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Federico Fellini’s wife Giulietta Masina plays Gelsomina, a naive girl sold into the employ of a brutal strongman in a traveling circus, in this poetic fable of love and cruelty, winner of the 1956 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
Federico Fellini Italy, 1954
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Mathieu Kassovitz took the film world by storm with La haine, a gritty, unsettling, and visually explosive look at the racial and cultural volatility in modern-day France, specifically the low-income banlieue districts on Paris’s outskirts.
Mathieu Kassovitz France, 1995
DCP, 35 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
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New DCP Combo Drives Available for Booking!
13 Jul, 2020
In light of theaters reopening with severely reduced capacities, Janus Films has compiled several DCP drives containing multiple films that we are able to offer at the following reduced rates, with no caps on the number of showtimes.
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New Relief Fund Announced!
03 Apr, 2020
A new relief fund established by initial donations from the Criterion Collection and Janus Films, was launched to help the more than 150 independent movie theaters across the United States that temporarily closed to slow the spread of COVID-19.
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Founded in 1956, Janus Films was the first theatrical distribution company dedicated to bringing international art-house films to U.S. audiences. Janus handles rights in all media to an extensive library that includes the work of Michelangelo Antonioni, Věra Chytilová, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Abbas Kiarostami, Akira Kurosawa, Ousmane Sembène, Andrei Tarkovsky, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, and Yasujiro Ozu.
Janus handles rights in all media, and its library has grown to more than 1200 films.