Janus Films

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“I just want to make a tray of good tofu. If people want something else, they should go to the restaurants and shops.” — Yasujiro Ozu

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“Inimitable ethnographer of offbeat and unknown Americana, the late, great documentarian Les Blank chronicled the music, food, and rituals of regional micro-cultures. From odes to garlic and gap-toothed women, to intimate portraits of blues and folk music legends, to broadcasts from the wacky world of Werner Herzog, Blank’s films are joyous celebrations of folk traditions and larger-than-life personalities.” A 16-film retrospective starts September 2nd at BAMcinématek.

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by Mark Neil Balson

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"Both in theme and stylistic invention," writes Robert Avila, “Tarkovsky’s sixth film builds on what came before and clears the way for what lay ahead. It also remains a magnificent film on its own, characterized by a languid, moody and thrilling beauty as well as a compelling moral urgency that feels undiminished, indeed reinforced by the intervening decades.”

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Farewell to the courageous, iconic Věra Chytilová.

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“When we’re faced with purity and innocence, the cynical mask drops off, and all that is best in us reawakens.”

Love through the lens of Fellini, at the Paris Review.

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Back cover of the soundtrack LP to Roman Polanski's TESS (MCA Records, 1979).

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Marketa.

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A new 35mm print of MARKETA LAZAROVA opens at BAMcinématek in Brooklyn this Friday, with a nationwide tour to come.

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Yes, that's Charlie Chaplin held aloft by Douglas Fairbanks. Wall Street, 1918.

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Did you know The Great Beauty opens on 11 more screens this week? 

http://janusfilms.com/thegreatbeauty/#screenings

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Persona - Ingmar Bergman - 1966

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Bergman defines “The Hour of the Wolf” as

"The time between midnight and dawn when most people die, when sleep is deepest, when nightmares are most palatable. It is the hour when the sleepless are pursued by their sharpest anxieties, when ghosts and demons hold sway. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most children are born."