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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One of the first films to confront the horrors of the Holocaust remains one of the most powerful.
Alfréd Radok Czechoslovakia, 1949
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Melvin Van Peebles’s edgy, angsty, romantic first feature could never have been made in America. Unable to break into a segregated Hollywood, Van Peebles decamped to France, taught himself the language, and wrote a number of books in French, one of which, La permission, would become his stylistically innovative feature debut.
Melvin Van Peebles United States, 1967
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Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in Lizzie Borden’s immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society’s most stigmatized profession.
Lizzie Borden United States, 1986
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A triumph at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival, the revelatory debut feature from codirectors (and twin brothers) Arie and Chuko Esiri is a heartrending and hopeful portrait of everyday human endurance in Lagos, Nigeria.
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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.