Janus Films Golden Anniversary at SIFF
What do films like The 400 Blows , High and Low, Jules et Jim, The Seventh Samurai and Wild Strawberries have in common? Besides being cinematic masterpieces, they are all films distributed by Janus Films, a landmark film distribution founded in 1956 that continues to this day to distribute the finest films from around to the world to theaters around the world.
SIFF [site] is celebrating fifty years of Janus with a film festival called Esstential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films. [program] The festival starts on March 1 with The Earrings of Madame De... Of particular note is Friday, March 2 which offers two extraordinary films back to back, The 400 Blows, François Truffaut’s brilliant unflinching but not unsympathetic examination of childhood and Jean Cocteau’s gorgeously eloquent Beauty and the Beast, a film that sixty years later still feels fresh.
perhaps you meant to type The Seven Samurai? a very minor typo, i know.
Actually, I meant to type “Seal” as in “Seventh Seal” but “Seven Samurai” makes sense, too. Now I am envisioning a mash-up of the two.