The teasingly entwined ambiguities of love and death continue to fascinate Alain Guiraudie (Stranger by the Lake, NYFF51), who returns with a sharp, sinister, yet slyly funny thriller.
Alain Guiraudie
France,
2024
DCP
Among the strangest and most perturbing films of his overlooked Mexican period, Él is Luis Buñuel’s incisive portrait of paranoia, jealousy, and sexual obsession—a nightmarish tale of love gone wrong that prefigures the major themes of his 1960s and ’70s work.
Luis Buñuel
1953
DCP
Marcello Mastroianni plays Guido Anselmi, a director whose new project is collapsing around him, along with his life.
Federico Fellini
Italy,
1963
DCP, 35 mm, Blu-ray, DVD
A stylish, subversive thriller from suspense-maverick Kiyoshi Kurosawa.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japan,
2024
DCP
In an eerie, deceptively placid near-future, a techno-entrepreneur named Karsh (Vincent Cassel) has developed a new software that will allow the bereaved to bear witness to the gradual decay of loved ones dead and buried in the earth.
David Cronenberg
Canada,
2024
DCP
The preeminent dramatist of China’s rapid 21st-century growth and social transformation, Jia Zhangke has taken his boldest approach to narrative yet with his marvelous Caught by the Tides.
Jia Zhangke
China,
2024
DCP
Initially conceived as one third of a triptych about food, In the Mood for Love was expanded into a stand-alone feature that won immediate recognition as a modern-day classic.
Wong Kar-wai
Hong Kong,
2001
DCP
18 May, 2023
Starting this fall, Criterion will proudly join Janus Films in presenting Janus Contemporaries, a new line of home-video editions of first-run releases, fresh from theaters, following their streaming premieres on the Criterion Channel.
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21 Jan, 2022
An 11-film retrospective from the trailblazing Hungarian filmmaker opens at Film at Lincoln Center today.
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31 Aug, 2020
New 4k restoration of Claire Denis' BEAU TRAVAIL opens digitally and in-person Friday 9/4!
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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.
