Criterion has some big plans for their upcoming Janus Films retrospective.
In a story from The Digital Bits, Criterion is going to be putting out the Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films.
In addition to being loaded with classic art films, the set will contain a hardcover book that will give the history of Janus Films from film historian Peter Cowie. Director Martin Scorsese will provide a tribute piece and the set will also contain production notes for all the films in the set.
Some of the movies in the Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films are:
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Ashes and Diamonds (1858)
L’Avventura (1960)
Ballad of a Soldier (1959)
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Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Brief Encounter (1945)
The Fallen Idol (1948)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
Fists in the Pocket (1965)
Floating Weeds (1959)
Forbidden Games (1952)
The 400 Blows (1959)
Grand Illusion (1937)
Häxan (1922)
Ikiru (1952)
The Importance of Being Ernest (1952)
Ivan the Terrible, Part II (1958)
Le Jour se léve (1939)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
Knife in the Water (1962)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Loves of a Blonde (1965)
M (1931)
M. Hulot’s Holiday (1953)
Miss Julie (1951)
Pandora’s Box (1929)
Pépé le Moko (1937)
Il Posto (1961)
Pygmalion (1938)
Rashomon (1950)
Richard III (1955)
The Rules of the Game (1939)
Seven Samurai (1954)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)
La Strada (1954)
Summertime (1955)
The Third Man (1949)
The 39 Steps (1935)
Ugetsu (1953)
Umberto D. (1952)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Virigiana (1961)
The Wages of Fear (1953)
The White Sheik (1952)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
The Great Chase (1962)
The Love Goddess (1965)
Paul Robeson: Tribute to an Artist (1979).
The Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films will sell for $850.
