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Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:35 pm
by kekid
Who has rights to "Z"? Has this been released on UHD anywhere? (Region A does not even have it on Blu Ray - Don't understand what the holdup is)
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 8:52 pm
by Matt
kekid wrote: Wed Jun 11, 2025 7:35 pm
Who has rights to "Z"? Has this been released on UHD anywhere? (Region A does not even have it on Blu Ray - Don't understand what the holdup is)
Criterion's DVD was licensed from Roissy Films, but Roissy Films has since been sold to Gaumont. However, The Criterion Collection is still listed as the distributor for streaming versions on Apple TV and Amazon Prime Video, and the film is still available to rent or own that way. And it's streaming on Max. No idea why their DVD should have gone out of print, no BD issued, but they still appear to have the streaming rights.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 8:35 pm
by TechnicolorAcid
therewillbeblus wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 3:45 pm
Big Ben wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 3:09 am
It has the some of the most batshit insane Cinematography you'll ever see. Roger Ebert once described the experience as requiring a seatbelt. It rules. Criterion should absolutely be releasing it.
This was pretty cool. I'm not sure I've ever seen the camera capture the subjectivity of a hyper-vigilant child's anxious POV in a tumultuous environment so well as in the first short act. And then it goes on to emulate the romanticism, trauma, pain, serenity, spiritual friction, etc. throughout adulthood quite horrifically yet beautifully. I wouldn't say I loved it, but still can't wait to see what a 4K transfer can do to make this pop even more
Edit: LB tells me I already watched this and found it mediocre, sometime before creating an account four-plus years ago.. What a difference watching it in HD makes, I guess!
Responding to this a year late but I managed to catch a cinema screening of the new restoration and if you get the chance to watch it in the theater, please take it without hesitation. The images themselves are stunning to look at on the big screen but experiencing the film for the first time with the theater’s speakers turned the film into a sensory overloading masterpiece. I genuinely don’t know if any other film has sound design like this one and hearing it in a large theater only amplified its power into an almost spiritual experience even amidst all of the sorrow of the story.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2025 11:39 pm
by jsteffe
therewillbeblus wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 3:45 pm
Big Ben wrote: Sat Jul 27, 2024 3:09 am
It has the some of the most batshit insane Cinematography you'll ever see. Roger Ebert once described the experience as requiring a seatbelt. It rules. Criterion should absolutely be releasing it.
This was pretty cool. I'm not sure I've ever seen the camera capture the subjectivity of a hyper-vigilant child's anxious POV in a tumultuous environment so well as in the first short act. And then it goes on to emulate the romanticism, trauma, pain, serenity, spiritual friction, etc. throughout adulthood quite horrifically yet beautifully. I wouldn't say I loved it, but still can't wait to see what a 4K transfer can do to make this pop even more
Edit: LB tells me I already watched this and found it mediocre, sometime before creating an account four-plus years ago.. What a difference watching it in HD makes, I guess!
The rapturous experience of seeing SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS for the first time drove me to seek out more Parajanov films and eventually write a book on him...
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2025 3:15 pm
by Ribs
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2025 6:57 pm
by criterionsnob
AKIRA KUROSAWA: A Retrospective (Official Trailer)
Exclusive to theatres for the moment, 4K restorations of Stray Dog, Ikiru, Red Beard, Throne of Blood, The Hidden Fortress.
Also includes the already available on 4K disc: Seven Samurai, Sanjuro, Yojimbo, High and Low.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2025 10:23 pm
by A Tempted Christ
I don't think Red Beard comes from a 4K restoration. It's probably the same 2K master that premiered at Venice in 2015.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 2:58 am
by Hogfather
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2025 4:43 am
by Lowry_Sam
The
Film Forum trailer implies all are new 4k restorations including
Red Beard &
Ikiru.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 2:24 pm
by brundlefly
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 4:08 pm
by pistolwink
Fall of Otrar is an incredible film.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:11 pm
by Mr.DarjeelingLimited
Otrar will blow your minds if you haven’t seen it.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 5:35 pm
by kekid
I am slightly confused. We have tracks for Janus Films (which I gather mostly refer to films for theatrical release), Janus Contemporaries (now discontinued), and Criterion Premiers. If I am interested only in physical media, is Criterion Premiers the only place I should be looking at? Is there any place where Janus Films that are expected to show up either as mainline Criterion or Criterion Premiers are listed? Thanks!
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2025 7:15 pm
by Matt
Would that it were so simple!
Here’s the thread for speculation on future Criterion titles, but no one knows for sure what they’ll actually release until they announce it. Minkin keeps track of likely future Criterion releases, including Janus Films acquisitions, in
this other thread.
For Criterion Premieres, you can expect that any
contemporary film announced as an acquisition by Janus in this here thread will be released on that sub-label. But still, nobody knows for sure what they’ll release until Criterion themselves announce it.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2025 7:44 pm
by yoloswegmaster
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 9:53 pm
by dwk
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:24 pm
by beamish14
A decent poster, but I genuinely love the
French one, which was actually painted by Juliette Binoche.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:44 pm
by Matt
I wonder if we'll eventually get some kind of Leos Carax box or, as with Eustache, this on its own and nothing else.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2025 11:19 pm
by therewillbeblus
I think there's a better chance at getting his first three films as a trilogy than standalones
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:52 am
by domino harvey
I’m pretty sure they were being offered as a package deal. Now, whether Criterion rereleases the other ones, who knows
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 2:34 am
by Beloved Aunt
beamish14 wrote: Wed Jul 23, 2025 10:24 pm
A decent poster, but I genuinely love the
French one, which was actually painted by Juliette Binoche.
Agree 100%, Binoche's poster is a million times better. But Criterion have zero instinct or judgment when it comes to deciding which original artwork to use and which to discard.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 11:20 am
by andyli
Lowry_Sam wrote:The
Film Forum trailer implies all are new 4k restorations including
Red Beard &
Ikiru.
Their individual page for Red Beard does indicate it’s a 4K DCP. So here’s hope.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:31 pm
by Zot!
domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:52 am
I’m pretty sure they were being offered as a package deal. Now, whether Criterion rereleases the other ones, who knows
I hope they have the good sense to do Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang as well, those both have a cultural cache and commercial quality to work as standalones, and the trio hangs well together. But I've given up trying to second guess this stuff. New poster is naff (what is with the weird chroma noise and digital blocking, are they trying to brace us for a shitty encode?). Old poster is fire (did not know Binoche did it.) Unpopular opinion: I'd rather Pola X than the first two, but I think that is still in fashionable 90's purgatory.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 4:20 pm
by Jean-Luc Garbo
Zot! wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:31 pm
domino harvey wrote: Thu Jul 24, 2025 1:52 am
I’m pretty sure they were being offered as a package deal. Now, whether Criterion rereleases the other ones, who knows
I hope they have the good sense to do Boy Meets Girl and Mauvais Sang as well
To me it's a no-brainer in light of the Beineix and Audiard that they've released. But I also thought the Pialats meant Mes petites amoureuses was a lock. Hopefully the presence of Denis Lavant is a deciding factor.
Re: Janus Films
Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2025 6:10 pm
by Zot!
That's not terribly reassuring, as they only released one Beineix (I know Diva was available on LD)...and Audiard is kind of still in the Academy Awards public sphere. Not sure if Denis Lavant is known by anyone but the anointed, but Binoche is still a marketable name. It would really make a nice triptych anyways.
