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hellish-cruelty · 11 months

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Maggie Cheung on the set of Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love (2000).

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annoyingthemesong · 7 months

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SUBLIME CINEMA #665 - CASSANDRA CAT

60's Czech new wave cult weirdness, about a cat that can read people's minds. Somewhat political allegory, it's one of the strangest offerings from that period of Czechoslovak filmmaking, now rediscovered and recently restored.

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criterioncollection · 1 year

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PARIS, TEXAS (1984) begins a special run at Film Forum in New York starting November 25 courtesy of Janus Films! 💞 💞 💞

#paris texas #nastassja kinski #wim wenders #harry dean stanton #sam shepard #film forum #the criterion collection #janus films

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artfilmfan · 6 months

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The Innocent (Louis Garrel, 2022)

#noemie merlant #louis garrel #l'innocent #french cinema #janus films #the innocent

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fallout-lou-begas · 1 year

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#just remembered one of my favorite tweets ever and i wanted to put it on my blog #janus films #favorite #louposting

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theaskew · 3 months

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rickchung · 6 months

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Evil Does Not Exist (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) x VIFF 2023.

It's an engaging yet unsettling portrait of anti-capitalist confrontation in the vein of true Japanese politeness. Despite the very serious, often grim tone, Evil Does Not Exist is frequently laugh-out-loud funny in its deliberately stilted dialogue. Still, Hamaguchi contines to make driving in cars and smoking silently (or doing both at the same time) look so damn cool on screen.

Screened at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival as part of the Special Presentations program.

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alligator1980 · 8 months

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janus films' official account is the funniest bitch on letterboxd, hands down

#janus films #letterboxd #IMAGINE a Come and See/Barbie double feature

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dyingenigma · 2 years

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Faya Dayi (2021) dir. Jessica Beshir

#faya dayi #jessica beshir #film stills #film #mine #cinema #movie #movies #sudan #sudanese #african cinema #african film #movie screenshots #movie screencaps #janus films #criterion channel #mubi #mubi release

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thefugitivesaint · 2 years

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“In the 1950s, Japanese cinema enjoyed what is widely discussed as its second “golden age” – a period in which the country’s filmic output was considered among the best in the world. This was a time when directors like Akira Kurosawa (Rashomon), Kenji Mizoguchi (Ugetsu) and Masaki Kobayashi (Harakiri) were winning top awards in Europe. Japanese genre classics were transforming the shape of Hollywood – as Seven Samurai, Yojimbo and The Hidden Fortress were soon-to-be adapted to create The Magnificent Seven, A Fistful of Dollars and Star Wars in the West. And as Godzilla was born out of the atomic destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Yasujirō Ozu (Tokyo Story) was creating gentle cinematic works that are today admired as some of the greatest of all time.

But while the stars of the screen were both male and female, the influential figures behind the cameras were predominantly men; the effect of a deeply patriarchal society historically bound by tradition. Most discussions of this deeply influential period of global cinema, in fact, will have little to say about female filmmaking at all – there were so few figures consistently working in the field. It was not until a young Naomi Kawase (Suzaku) won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes in 1997 that women filmmakers of Japan truly found sustained recognition overseas.

Much-welcomed, then, is the BFI’s latest film season, in collaboration with Edinburgh Film Festival (EIFF) and Janus Films. Titled Kinuyo Tanaka: A Life in Film, it explores the outstanding works of one of the country’s first-ever female auteurs – whose incredible and under-seen films have been newly restored in 4K. A screen icon in her own right (highlights from her incredible acting career, including collaborations with nearly all of the aforementioned filmmaking giants, are to be shown in September), Tanaka defied the male gatekeepers of the industry to carve out her own career behind the camera. She thrived in the process, delivering works that matched those of her male counterparts and often surpassed them.

Though her directing career was short (Tanaka completed six films in nine years in total), the stories she told were vital tales of female agency and desire that were essential to the cinematic development of one of the world’s great filmmaking nations.“

#kinuyo tanaka #japanese directors #japanese filmmakers #japanese cinema #female auteurs #janus films #edinburgh film festival #british film institute

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wellntruly · 1 year

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Every time you see this guy, you know it's about to be a good time

#Janus Films: pops up #me: oh it's about to pop Off #Janus Films #movies

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hellish-cruelty · 9 months

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Wong Kar-Wai's In the mood for love deleted scene.

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oldshowbiz · 1 year

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1962.

The Texas Supreme Court upheld the censorship of Ingmar Bergman.

#janus films #art house #ingmar bergman #texas

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criterioncollection · 1 year

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A wonderful visit from Jerzy Skolimowski, whose new film EO—winner of the Jury Prize at Cannes and Poland’s official entry for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards®—is now playing in NYC courtesy of Janus Films!

#jerzy skolimowski #eo #janus films #the criterion collection #the criterion closet #film

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artfilmfan · 5 months

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