Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films

Janus Films opened American viewers’ eyes to the pleasures of Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, and François Truffaut at the height of their artistic powers. Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of this world-renowned distribution company with Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films, an expansive collectors’ box set featuring fifty classic films on DVD and a lavishly illustrated hardcover book that tells the story of Janus Films through an essay by film historian Peter Cowie, a tribute from Martin Scorsese, and extensive, all-new notes on all fifty films, plus cast and credit listings and U.S. premiere information.

50 films

Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films

The 39 Steps

The 400 Blows

Alexander Nevsky

Ashes and Diamonds

Ballad of a Soldier

Beauty and the Beast

Black Orpheus

Brief Encounter

The Fallen Idol

Fires on the Plain

Fists in the Pocket

Floating Weeds

Forbidden Games

Grand Illusion

Häxan

Ikiru

Il posto

The Importance of Being Earnest

Ivan the Terrible, Part I

Le jour se lève

Jules and Jim

Kind Hearts and Coronets

Knife in the Water

The Lady Vanishes

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp

Loves of a Blonde

L’avventura

M

Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday

Miss Julie

Pandora’s Box

Pépé le moko

Pygmalion

Rashomon

Richard III

The Rules of the Game

Seven Samurai

The Seventh Seal

The Spirit of the Beehive

La strada

Summertime

The Third Man

Three Documentaries

Ugetsu

Umberto D.

The Virgin Spring

Viridiana

The Wages of Fear

The White Sheik

Wild Strawberries