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DeprongMori
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Re: Janus Films

#501 Post by DeprongMori » Wed Mar 24, 2021 2:49 am

Ribs wrote:
Thu Dec 17, 2020 2:34 pm
Lincoln Center has announced new Janus restorations of THE MIRROR and DEMONLOVER.
Mirror and Demonlover now have pages up at Janus Films.

Also now listed is Mohammad Reza Aslani’s 1976 Chess of the Wind (Shatranj-e baad).

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#502 Post by yoloswegmaster » Wed Mar 24, 2021 8:56 am

Those pages have been up for a while, and was already announced on the previous page of this thread.

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Re: Janus Films

#503 Post by jwd5275 » Tue Apr 06, 2021 1:47 pm

headacheboy wrote:
Tue Mar 23, 2021 8:30 pm
The Story of a Three-Day Pass is currently playing on Kanopy.
Story of a Three-Day Pass now up on the Janus website.

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Re: Janus Films

#504 Post by Ribs » Tue Apr 06, 2021 5:28 pm


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Re: Janus Films

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Re: Janus Films

#506 Post by hearthesilence » Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:07 pm

jwd5275 wrote:
Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:54 pm
Alfred Radok's Distant Journey
Even lists Blu-ray as an available format - are they referring to the Second Run region-free BD or does that usually indicate Criterion's plans for a BD release?

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Re: Janus Films

#507 Post by soundchaser » Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:12 pm

That’s just a format for theatrical screenings — it’s not *necessarily* indicative of a Criterion disc. (But it’s also not a bad sign.)

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#508 Post by Roscoe » Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:16 pm

Jordan's MONA LISA ran on TCM with Criterion and Janus logos -- and it looked cleaned up a good deal. Hoping for a Blu-Ray upgrade.

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#509 Post by Boosmahn » Fri Apr 23, 2021 9:26 pm

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I like it!

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#510 Post by yoloswegmaster » Tue May 11, 2021 8:55 am

Pages for 5 of Kazuo Hara's documentaries are up on the site.

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#511 Post by yoloswegmaster » Thu May 20, 2021 12:12 pm

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Re: Janus Films

#512 Post by Ribs » Tue May 25, 2021 4:37 pm

Included in Lincoln Center's summer programming announcement is that Janus will be releasing William Klein's Muhammad Ali, the Greatest.

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Re: Janus Films

#515 Post by dwk » Tue Jul 06, 2021 9:42 am

I think that was just a reference to Tarantino buying the Vista.


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Re: Janus Films

#517 Post by criterionsnob » Tue Aug 17, 2021 12:44 pm

Also Powell's Bluebeard’s Castle restored by BFI and The Film Foundation. I've only seen this on YouTube in terrible quality. Hopefully it will appear in a future World Cinema Project box.

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#518 Post by Calvin » Tue Aug 17, 2021 1:04 pm

It's not part of the World Cinema Project; it's more likely to appear as an extra on another Powell release, given its length.

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Re: Janus Films

#519 Post by criterionsnob » Mon Aug 30, 2021 5:32 pm

Janus 4K restoration of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cure, surely with a disc to follow next year.

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#520 Post by dadaistnun » Mon Aug 30, 2021 8:26 pm

Fantastic news! One of those rare films I find more frightening each time I see it. The first Kurosawa I saw and probably still my favorite.

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#521 Post by FrauBlucher » Mon Aug 30, 2021 9:55 pm

There was a New Years Wacky Drawing a number of years ago that had an X in the cartoon that some guessed it was for Cure

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#522 Post by senseabove » Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:23 pm

It was on Hulu with Janus bumpers that far back, iirc, so it’s been a very long time coming. But this is a newer restoration than Eureka released, right? I don’t recall that release ever being touted as 4K, or even a new restoration at all, really…

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#523 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Mon Aug 30, 2021 10:50 pm

The MoC release was an older HD master and frankly it showed. Very excited to see an improved transfer, especially on UHD.

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#524 Post by andyli » Mon Aug 30, 2021 11:14 pm

There's been a Japanese release with the new 4K restoration since the MoC blu-ray. Not sure about the French release. Anyways a Criterion Cure would be most welcome.

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#525 Post by Jean-Luc Garbo » Tue Aug 31, 2021 9:15 am

Thank god! I really hope fans of Memories of Murder check this out. I thought the MoC was quite good despite the subtitle flub in the beginning but given how that looked (let alone the HVE dvd) I knew it'd need a restoration. I'm really glad it's getting that theatrical rerelease because just the sound design makes it so incredible also Koji in one of my favorite performances ever.

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