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I never thought I'd say this, but hopefully Janus snags or has Hou's Three Times and The Flight of the Red Balloon. Same for Paranoid Park. I can't see whoever curates IFC/OCN being taken by Hou, and Janus could at least have them streaming. Notoriously, there's a dearth of Hou on blu for a variety of reasons, but getting his two IFC-distributed releases out there seems the bare minimum some company could do. If LaLiberty is the curator, then he hasn't even seen Three Times. The two Hous plus Paranoid Park are no longer on the IFC website, so maybe there's hope there.

Blue Heron
Romería

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Dec 16, 2025 8:52 pm Looks like Janus has also picked up Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime, and will be screening it alongside the restoration for Serpent's Path in the spring next year.

Trailer.

dadaistnun wrote: Fri Oct 24, 2025 3:22 am Sophy Romvari posted on Instagram that Janus will be releasing her feature debut, Blue Heron, next year.

Trailer.

Everyones favorite is now with Janus Here
Tokyo Melody

FrauBlucher wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 2:39 am Tokyo Melody

Hell yeah

FrauBlucher wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 2:39 am Everyones favorite is now with Janus Here

I hated this when it came out in theaters, but rewatched it a few years ago and caught my self laughing and enjoying it. I have to be honest here!

I went along with the jokes at the time not having seen but eventually I saw it and it is indeed good and funny (Alex Karpovsky is the funniest man alive so it makes sense). And Girls has so thoroughly outlived the angry responses to it as it aired that there’s no argument for Dunham not being an “important contemporary” artist.

La maison des bois Trailer.

More Naruse Floating Clouds
and I believe this was recently added Animation Gints Zilbalodis, Latvia Away

FrauBlucher wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 12:03 am More Naruse Floating Clouds

I’ve always believed that Floating Clouds is a film that should be in The Criterion Collection. Hope this will enable it to happen soon. I might finally buy a 4K disc player and TV if Criterion releases it on that format.

Barbara Kopple’s American Dream (1990) has just received a 4K restoration and will be touring courtesy of Janus Films.

DeprongMori wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 3:17 pm Barbara Kopple’s American Dream (1990) has just received a 4K restoration and will be touring courtesy of Janus Films.

She'll be appearing at the IFC Center to present the new 4K restorations of both that and Harlan County, USA.

I kind of wish I caught one of her presentations of the 35mm print of Harlan County, USA, it would've been interested to compare to the new 4K DCP. FWIW, I actually thought the 4K DCP of D A Pennebaker's Monterey Pop looked even better than the 35mm blow-up.

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Jun 10, 2025 7:38 pm As mentioned in the other forum, Criterion/Janus also did the restoration for ROBERT WILSON AND THE CIVIL WARS, which is also premeiring at the Ritrovato festival. I've never heard of this, and it appears most people haven't either since only 7 people have this logged on IMDb and 17 on Letterboxd.

Trailer.

criterionsnob wrote: Thu Mar 19, 2026 4:23 pm La maison des bois Trailer.

L´enfance nue, 4K restoration, Janus release:
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/la-mais ... ?tab=films
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/lenfance-nue/

À nos amours, 2K restoration, Janus release:
https://www.filmlinc.org/films/a-nos-amours/
https://www.filmlinc.org/series/la-mais ... ?tab=films

yoloswegmaster wrote: Tue Sep 23, 2025 9:17 pm Janus Grabs North American Rights to Carla Simon’s ‘Romería’

Trailer.

So now we can hope for that Criterion Laloux box on UHD (as Fantastic Planet & The Time Masters restorations were never individually released)?

Jamón, Jamón
Madonna and. Child
Children
Death and Transfiguration
The Long Day Closes
Why Worry?

dwk wrote: Thu Apr 30, 2026 5:54 pm Madonna and. Child
Children
Death and Transfiguration
The Long Day Closes

Criterion could do to issue some more Terence Davies. He’s surprisingly underrepresented in Criterion, though with one stunning film — The Long Day Closes (which I mistakenly thought Janus already had).

and it's a 2k restoration still on a dual disc (blu & dvd) edition. For some reason I thought it had gone OOP. Did Davies get 4k restos? There's no info in those blurbs. Maybe another UHD or combo box set is in the works...or (more likely) just more wishful thinking.

Lowry_Sam wrote: Fri May 01, 2026 12:29 am and it's a 2k restoration still on a dual disc (blu & dvd) edition. For some reason I thought it had gone OOP. Did Davies get 4k restos? There's no info in those blurbs. Maybe another UHD or combo box set is in the works...or (more likely) just more wishful thinking.

The three films of the Trilogy were all shot on 16mm. The Long Day Closes was shot on 35mm and would look stunning in a new restoration.

Not sure whether there are new scans of the Trilogy. The 2014 BFI DVD booklet states: The Terence Davies Trilogy was remastered in HiDef using the new restoration 16mm film negative materials.