Janus Films

[Hogfather]

found more new pages. Oddly many of the URL numbers skip. Some of these have been released by Criterion. William Klein Eclipse is currently unavailable and Carlos Saura Eclipse is OOP. Maybe these will eventually get bluray boxsets. The Kieślowski is in the Dekalog box

Ray...Devi
Hou... Cute Girl
Hou... The Boys from Fengkuei
Hou... The Green, Green Grass of Home
Ivan Passer... Intimate Lighting
William Klein... The Model Couple
William Klein... Mr. Freedom
William Klein... Who Are You, Polly Maggot?
Václav Vorlíček... Three Wishes For Cinderella
Kieślowski... A Short Film About Killing
Saura... Los ojos vendados
Saura... Elisa, vida mia
Saura...The Garden of Delights
Saura...Honeycomb
Saura... The Hunt
Saura... Stress is Three
Saura... Peppermint Frappe
Saura...Sweet Hours
Berlanga... Welcome Mr. Marshall!
Berlanga... Barrios altos
Berlanga... Everyone Off to Jail
Berlanga...Boyfriend in Sight
Berlanga...Miracles of Thursday
Berlanga... Nacional III
Berlanga... Patrimonio nacional
Berlanga... Placido
Berlanga...The Rocket from Calabuch

This is a really interesting list, as much for what it includes as what it doesn't.

Devi, the three William Klein films, and A Short Film About Killing are all in the Criterion Collection. in addition, the three Hou films, Three Wishes for Cinderella, the Saura films and the Berlanga films are all on the Criterion Channel. The Boys From Fengkuei in particular has been in the rotation as a World Cinema Project restoration for some time, and I think this is the last step before Criterion puts it out on disc.

What I think is really interesting is that five Saura films are on the Criterion Channel that don't have Janus webpages: Ana and the Wolves, Cousin Angelica, and Deprisa, Deprisa, as well as Cria Cuervos... (the only Saura film to have a solo Criterion release) and Marathon, which is part of the 100 Years of Olympic Films box set. In contrast, Garcia Berlanga's only film in the Collection, The Executioner does have its own page. The two films of his that are on the channel but don't have pages are La Boutique and Long Live the Bride and Groom. I wonder if they only have the streaming rights to these movies or if they just haven't created their webpages yet.

Another interesting thing is to look at the numbers on these webpages. Janus has evidently been sitting on the rights to all of these films (except for maybe Los ojos vendados) for some time but has not (for whatever reason) done anything with the films. In contrast, the Janus webpage for The Executioner has a much larger number than any of the listed pages, meaning that Janus got the rights to it at a later date and released it before the other films.

[Matt]

I think Janus is going back to its old model of being a theatrical and non-theatrical (educational institutions, museums, etc.) distributor and not the front end of Criterion, which, along with the Criterion Channel, is probably a more reliable, low-cost revenue stream. They have acquired distribution rights for so many movies in the past couple of years that it would take decades for Criterion to release them on physical media.

[dwk]

found more new pages. Oddly many of the URL numbers skip. Some of these have been released by Criterion.

I assume that some of the skipped pages around the Breillat titles are more of her films that they just don't have up yet.

[jwd5275]

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What I think is really interesting is that five Saura films are on the Criterion Channel that don't have Janus webpages: Ana and the Wolves, Cousin Angelica, and Deprisa, Deprisa, as well as Cria Cuervos... (the only Saura film to have a solo Criterion release) and Marathon, which is part of the 100 Years of Olympic Films box set. In contrast, Garcia Berlanga's only film in the Collection, The Executioner does have its own page. The two films of his that are on the channel but don't have pages are La Boutique and Long Live the Bride and Groom. I wonder if they only have the streaming rights to these movies or if they just haven't created their webpages yet.

Another interesting thing is to look at the numbers on these webpages. Janus has evidently been sitting on the rights to all of these films (except for maybe Los ojos vendados) for some time but has not (for whatever reason) done anything with the films. In contrast, the Janus webpage for The Executioner has a much larger number than any of the listed pages, meaning that Janus got the rights to it at a later date and released it before the other films.

Also interesting that many of the Saura films were up on the Janus site in at least late 2018 (along with Ana and the Wolves, Cousin Angelica, Cria Cuervos and the Berlanga short La sueno de la maestra. They were removed in early 2019.

[jwd5275]

Shoeshine
The Munekata Sisters
The Stranger and the Fog

[FrauBlucher]

Shoeshine 4k restoration trailer

[dadaistnun]

Criterion and Janus Films Sell to Indian Paintbrush Founder Steven Rales

Indian Paintbrush has been the production company behind all of Wes Anderson's films since The Darjeeling Limited, so I'm guessing those might start coming at a faster clip now.

Bigger news for me in the Variety article is that Janus has picked up Payal Kapadia‘s All We Imagine as Light, her follow up to A Night of Knowing Nothing.

[FrauBlucher]

This has already been linked and discussed Here

[Ribs]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow

[dwk]

Janus/Criterion have picked up the rights to four by Haneke: "Lemmings Tale 1: Arcadia,” “Lemmings Tale 2: Injuries,” “Three Paths to the Lake,” and "Rebellion."

[beamish14]

Janus/Criterion have picked up the rights to four by Haneke: "Lemmings Tale 1: Arcadia,” “Lemmings Tale 2: Injuries,” “Three Paths to the Lake,” and "Rebellion."

Wonderful news.

As an aside, does he have anything new in the works? I haven’t heard about any upcoming projects

[Mr Sausage]

Janus/Criterion have picked up the rights to four by Haneke: "Lemmings Tale 1: Arcadia,” “Lemmings Tale 2: Injuries,” “Three Paths to the Lake,” and "Rebellion."

As a huge Ingeborg Bachmann fan, I’ve been wanting to see his adaptation of her Three Paths to the Lake for years. It’s not often I’m excited for a Haneke film.

[FrauBlucher]

They also just got around to listing pages for the Haneke boxset along with The Castle. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with Cache his more recent films

[Ribs]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired the rights to Alain Guiraudie’s Misericordia

[Ribs]

Sideshow and Janus Films have acquired Leos Carax's It's Not Me

[dwk]

Putting ol' Steve's money to use.

[yoloswegmaster]

Janus is listed as the distributor for Bahman Ghobadi's A Time for Drunken Horses.

A new restoration of Pedro Costa's In Vanda's Room is also being screened at American Cinematheque. Wouldn't be surprised to see an upgrade of that forthcoming.

[furbicide]

Janus/Criterion have picked up the rights to four by Haneke: "Lemmings Tale 1: Arcadia,” “Lemmings Tale 2: Injuries,” “Three Paths to the Lake,” and "Rebellion."

I've been wanting to see these for ages – great to see them getting a release soon!

[dwk]

More Catherine Breillat pages are on Janus Films' site:
Anatomy of Hell
Last Summer
Sex is Comedy

[brundlefly]

Trailer for Breillat's Last Summer.

[jwd5275]

Looks like they got the descriptions of Anatomy of Hell and Sex is Comedy reversed.

[yoloswegmaster]

The Time Masters

[beamish14]

A Time for Drunken Horses is with Janus now

[dwk]

Looks like they got the descriptions of Anatomy of Hell and Sex is Comedy reversed.

They finally fixed this.

[criterionsnob]

I knew this had to be coming soon. Seven Samurai Janus 4K restoration trailer.