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)
- 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.