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ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE: 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS
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Janus Films opened American viewers eyes to the pleasures of Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and François Truffaut at the height of their artistic powers. Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this world-renowned distribution company with Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films, an expansive collectors box set featuring fifty classic films on DVD and a lavishly illustrated hardcover book that tells the story of Janus Films through an essay by film historian Peter Cowie, a tribute from Martin Scorsese, and extensive notes on all fifty films, plus cast and credit listings and U.S. premiere information.
50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS: BOX SET TITLESALEXANDER NEVSKY (1938), Sergei Eisenstein ASHES AND DIAMONDS (1958), Andrzej Wajda L'AVVENTURA (1960), Michelangelo Antonioni BALLAD OF A SOLDIER (1959), Grigori Chukhrai BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (1946), Jean Cocteau BLACK ORPHEUS (1959), Marcel Camus BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945), David Lean THE FALLEN IDOL (1948), Carol Reed FIRES ON THE PLAIN (1959), Kon Ichikawa FISTS IN THE POCKET (1965), Marco Bellocchio FLOATING WEEDS (1959), Yasujiro Ozu FORBIDDEN GAMES (1952), René Clement THE 400 BLOWS (1959), François Truffaut GRAND ILLUSION (1937), Jean Renoir HÄXAN (1922), Benjamin Christensen IKIRU (1952), Akira Kurosawa THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (1952), Anthony Asquith IVAN THE TERRIBLE, PART II (1958), Sergei Eisenstein LE JOUR SE LÈVE (1939), Marcel Carné JULES AND JIM (1962), François Truffaut KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949), Robert Hamer KNIFE IN THE WATER (1962), Roman Polanski THE LADY VANISHES (1938), Alfred Hitchcock THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP (1943), Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger LOVES OF A BLONDE (1965), Milos Forman M (1931), Fritz Lang M. HULOT'S HOLIDAY (1953), Jacques Tati MISS JULIE (1951), Alf Sjöberg PANDORA'S BOX (1929), G.W. Pabst PÉPÉ LE MOKO (1937), Jean Duvivier IL POSTO (1961), Ermanno Olmi PYGMALION (1938), Anthony Asquith RASHOMON (1950), Akira Kurosawa RICHARD III (1955), Laurence Olivier THE RULES OF THE GAME (1939), Jean Renoir SEVEN SAMURAI (1954), Akira Kurosawa THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957), Ingmar Bergman THE SPIRIT OF THE BEEHIVE (1973), Víctor Erice LA STRADA (1954), Federico Fellini SUMMERTIME (1955), David Lean THE THIRD MAN (1949), Carol Reed THE 39 STEPS (1935), Alfred Hitchcock UGETSU (1953), Kenji Mizoguchi UMBERTO D. (1952), Vittorio De Sica THE VIRGIN SPRING (1960), Ingmar Bergman VIRIDIANA (1961), Luis Buñuel THE WAGES OF FEAR (1953), Henri-Georges Clouzot THE WHITE SHEIK (1952), Federico Fellini WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957), Ingmar Bergman THREE DOCUMENTARIES: THE GREAT CHASE (1962), THE LOVE GODDESSES (1965), and PAUL ROBESON: TRIBUTE TO AN ARTIST (1979), Saul J. Turell
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