Janus Films

09/12/2023

A transfixing journey into the heart of colonial darkness, Hlynur Pálmason's psychological epic GODLAND is now Iceland's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards®.

09/11/2023

A suspicious death, a farcical mix-up. GUELWAAR, Ousmane Sembène's biting satire plays twice this week as part Film Forum's essential series SEMBÈNE 100: filmforum.org/series/sembene

09/09/2023

A two-week retrospective spanning over four decades of radical, groundbreaking work from the Senegalese auteur, SEMBÈNE 100 is now playing at Film Forum: filmforum.org/series/sembene

09/08/2023

NOW PLAYING: In honor of Ousmane Sembène's centennial, join us at Film Forum for SEMBÈNE 100, a retrospective of the legendary director's work, including new restorations and rare screenings. filmforum.org/series/sembene

09/07/2023

SEMBÈNE 100, a career retrospective of groundbreaking filmmaker Ousmane Sembène, opens tomorrow Film Forum with new restorations of EMITAÏ (1971), XALA (1975), and CEDDO (1977). Tickets: filmforum.org/series/sembene

08/05/2023

AFIRE is one of Vulture's best movies of 2023! Alison Willmore calls it "a piercing image of being young in a world that’s on fire."
German master Christian Petzold's latest is now playing in select cities nationwide: afire.film

08/03/2023

"Few of this summer’s movies burn as fiercely” (Los Angeles Times) as AFIRE, from PHOENIX and TRANSIT director Christian Petzold. Now playing in select theaters: afire.film

08/01/2023

"The thing I like most is finding the locations—by myself, not with the others, and mostly by bicycle."

Christian Petzold continues his love affair with the bicycle in AFIRE, now playing in select cities nationwide: afire.film

08/01/2023

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Don't miss the final days of THE MOTHER AND THE W***E, Jean Eustache's autobiographical magnum opus, before it leaves Film at Lincoln Center on Thursday: www.filmlinc.org/films/the-mother-and-the-whore/

07/30/2023

“Petzold’s cinema is known for its sparing use of music, which makes the rare needle drops feel like ruptures. He employs songs not as background score, but to open his films up.” Reverse Shot on Wallners' "in my mind," the earworm at the center of AFIRE. Now playing in select cities nationwide. afire.film

The first Wallners Single “in my mind”. Listen and download here: https://wallners.lnk.to/inmymind Follow Wallners:Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/wallner...

07/28/2023

Summer Friday is here.
AFIRE, the latest "masterwork" from Christian Petzold, "one of the great directors of this young century" (The Film Stage), is now playing in select cities nationwide.
Get tickets: www.afire.film

07/27/2023

"A revelation and a cause for celebration." Chicago Reader on The Dirty Stories of Jean Eustache, a program of new restorations by the French New Wave Master, making its way around the country this summer. Get tickets: jeaneustache.film

07/26/2023

Great interview with filmmaker Christian Petzold in Cinema Scope on AFIRE, his "fairy tale by way of Rohmer’s La collectionneuse (1967)."

Christian Petzold becomes bored with his own voice during press junkets. “I want to tell new stories,” he confesses with a smile. “For example, I said in one interview that the next movie is about homosexual love or something like that. I’m not very professional sometimes.”

07/25/2023

“Few of this summer’s movies burn as fiercely” as Christian Petzold's "superb" (Los Angeles Times) AFIRE, expanding to select cities across the country Friday: afire.film

07/25/2023

The Dirty Stories, a touring series of new restorations by "autodidact, barfly and rive gauche flaneur" (Artforum) Jean Eustache, is touching down in cities across the country this summer. Venues and tickets at jeaneustache.film

07/21/2023

AFIRE filmmaker Christian Petzold (PHOENIX, TRANSIT) sat down with Scott Simon at NPR's Weekend Edition to discuss inspiration during COVID, unlikable artists, and his collaboration with Paula Beer.
www.npr.org/2023/07/15/1187929934/german-filmmaker-christian-petzold-on-his-latest-movie-afire

07/20/2023

"Petzold is at his funniest, with plenty of long, wine-soaked meals al fresco, furtive romances & one beautiful poem...despite the ominous orange nighttime sky." Vogue raves about AFIRE. Now playing in NY & LA: afire.film

07/20/2023

“The Mother and the W***e is both epic and intimate, ethnographic in its cultural detail and subjective in its exposure of the raw nerves of body and psyche.” - Amy Taubin, Village Voice
Now playing in select cities nationwide: jeaneustache.film