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#351 Post by soundchaser » Mon Apr 15, 2019 7:16 pm

Perhaps this was not the best day to push that out.

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#352 Post by yoloswegmaster » Wed May 08, 2019 2:04 pm

Janus confirming the WKW news

Also, they've been posting a lot of Kurosawa-related images. Possible hint for a Kurosawa retrospective.

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#353 Post by Boosmahn » Wed May 08, 2019 6:12 pm

How does everyone here figure the WKW films are going to be handled? Individually or in a box-set?

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#354 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed May 08, 2019 6:32 pm

Both. Boxset and then In The Mood Foe Love and Chungking Express definitely getting stand alones

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#355 Post by artfilmfan » Wed May 08, 2019 6:47 pm

Days of Being Wild needs a stand-alone release, too.

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#356 Post by FrauBlucher » Thu May 09, 2019 11:39 am

Janus just tweeted this pic....
"The salad days..."
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#357 Post by yoloswegmaster » Thu May 09, 2019 11:44 am

What does that mean?

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#358 Post by domino harvey » Thu May 09, 2019 11:45 am


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#359 Post by The Fanciful Norwegian » Thu May 09, 2019 11:56 am

Apparently the source for that image is an off-air 1976 recording of Nosferatu on the Chicago PBS affiliate; the entire broadcast is available on Youtube, complete with a short intermission for a news update and a spot for a documentary about George III, featuring Prince Charles (!). Not that I think Janus is going to do anything with Nosferatu again, though it would be nice given the issues with the last Kino release.

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#360 Post by domino harvey » Thu May 09, 2019 11:58 am

As ever, never bet on Criterion to release a silent film

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#361 Post by colinr0380 » Sun May 12, 2019 3:36 pm

This is pure speculation (it is probably just a nice tweet about the early days of Janus more than anything!) but in Michael Almereyda's Nadja there is a scene of a group of vampires having a screening of Nosferatu.

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#362 Post by Roscoe » Sun May 12, 2019 7:06 pm

Maybe a reference to the good old days when the Janus library was in heavy rotation on local PBS stations? Wherever we moved when I was a kid, the local PBS channel had some kind of Classic Movie Showcase, stuff like IVAN THE TERRIBLE, SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT, M....

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#365 Post by yoloswegmaster » Sun May 26, 2019 3:18 pm

MOMA hosting a screening of 'Danton' from a DCP print. Have all of the films from the Wajda boxset gotten new restorations?

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#366 Post by Buttery Jeb » Tue May 28, 2019 7:30 pm

The Janus website is now listing Martin Bell's Streetwise!

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#367 Post by Boosmahn » Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:11 pm

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#368 Post by Buttery Jeb » Mon Jun 10, 2019 4:17 pm

Buttery Jeb wrote:
Tue May 28, 2019 7:30 pm
The Janus website is now listing Martin Bell's Streetwise!
In addition to Streetwise, Janus is now listing Martin Bell's follow-up Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell on their website.

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#369 Post by rrenault » Sun Jun 16, 2019 4:40 am

Timec wrote:
Thu Mar 14, 2019 3:54 pm
ftsoh wrote:
Thu Mar 14, 2019 2:40 pm
Though I would very much like to see all WKW films in the collection, but I am not holding my breath since we were promised almost all of Almodovar (who I also like) a few years back and how much we've seen so far? Only 2!
Yeah—considering the sheer volume of films they apparently have in the pipeline from Harold Lloyd, Almodovar, Wenders, Kiarostami, Ray, Wong, etc., it does seem like they’re releasing them at a trickle.

I know it's unreasonable to expect multiple Bergman-style sets, but hopefully they'll at least take a cue from some of the UK labels and increase the number of (smaller-scale) boxsets they're releasing. Otherwise we’ll be waiting a loooong time to get all those films.
Could it be perhaps they're waiting for newer masters of some of these films? An Almodovar retrospective is kicking into gear in Paris right around now in tandem with the theatrical release of Pain and Glory. Contrary to popular belief, even relatively high-profile films made since the nineties often require restorations, especially if they're begging for the Criterion treatment.

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#370 Post by Clarence » Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:18 pm


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#371 Post by domino harvey » Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:23 pm

As I speculated elsewhere, if rumors of an eventual complete Kiarostami set are true, it makes sense that they'd work out a deal with Cohen. I didn't think they'd straight-up buy their licensing rights from them, though!

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#372 Post by senseabove » Mon Jun 24, 2019 4:51 pm

It's still credited as Cohen here: https://bampfa.org/event/wind-will-carry-us

Which is part of a series where nearly everything else is Janus, so I imagine they're just touting retrospectives the vast majority of which will be theirs.

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#373 Post by FrauBlucher » Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:13 pm

Janus just tweeted this. Image

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#374 Post by domino harvey » Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:17 pm

He writes his y’s at least three different ways

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#375 Post by movielocke » Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:40 pm

Laserdisc Se7en upgrade?

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