Distribuiu em seu país de origem inúmeras obras de Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut e Yasujirō Ozu. Com sede em Nova Iorque, está em atividade desde 1956 e centra sua produção em documentários e filmes cult. Janus Films é uma produtora e distribuidora de filmes estadunidense.The company's name and logo come from Janus, the two-faced Roman god of transitions, passages, beginnings, and endings. Janus has a close business relationship with The Criterion Collection regarding the release of its films on DVD and Blu-ray and is still an active theatrical distributor. Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal (1957) was the film responsible for the company's initial growth. The distributor is credited with introducing numerous films, now considered masterpieces of world cinema, to American audiences, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray, François Truffaut, Yasujirō Ozu and many other well-regarded directors.
Janus Films is an American film distribution company.El logotipo y nombre de la empresa están inspirados en Jano, el dios romano de dos caras que representaba las puertas, los comienzos, los portales, las transiciones y los finales. El éxito inicial de la empresa surgió con el estreno de El séptimo sello (1957) de Ingmar Bergman. Janus mantiene una estrecha relación comercial con The Criterion Collection, relativa al lanzamientos de sus películas en DVD y Blu-ray, y aun mantiene un rol activo como distribuidora en cines. Fue responsable de introducir numerosas películas extranjeras en Estados Unidos, muchas de las cuales son consideradas clásicos, incluyendo trabajos de los directores Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut y Yasujirō Ozu, entre otros. Janus Films es una empresa estadounidense dedicada a la distribución cinematográfica, fundada en 1956 por y.He will also be in Austin to participate in the SXSW Conference on March 11, along with Austin Film Society founder and artistic director Richard Linklater. He also thanked Janus Films & Criterion Collection, which “have been involved in this process for years, even at a time when we thought there was no credible way to untangle this knot.”Īssayas will be present at the Austin Film Society from March 9-11 for screenings of several of his movies, including “Something in the Air,” “Paris Awakens,” “Irma Vep,” “Summer Hours,” “Clouds of Sils Maria,” “Personal Shopper” and “Cold Water.” The screening series, co-organized by French film promotion organization UniFrance, will be followed by discussions with Assayas. The helmer paid homage to Sylvie Barthet, the original line producer on “Cold Water,” who’s been working with him ever since and is now a co-producer on his movies.
The French director described “Cold Water” as a “movie about kids in the ’70s.” “They look very much like myself and my friends at the time….It was my first shot at some sort of cinematic autobiography and I saw it as an experiment,” said Assayas, adding that “Cold Water” changed his “filmmaking life” by teaching him that “it is by taking chances, by trying side roads that you open up new spaces for yourself.” Unluckily, its access to general release has been plagued by misfortune after misfortune.”Īssayas said he and his partners had to clear the French rights, international rights and music rights to allow the film to have its “long-overdue U.S. “With an uncanny fluidity, this deeply honest coming-of-age tale fuses wrenching emotional realism and a lush, expressionistic visual style driven by one of the most amazing soundtracks in any film,” added Becker, noting that the uncleared music rights kept the film from getting distributed in the U.S.Īssayas said that the “premiere of the restored ‘Cold Water’ is a huge satisfaction, and the result of years of concern, struggle, anger, resilience….Ever since I shot this film in 24 days in December ’93 – and it opened at the Cannes Film Festival in May 94 – it has had a great life of its own, traveling the world and screening at most major festivals.