Word: bergman
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...Asian directors like Jean Renoir (“Grand Illusion”), Federico Fellini (“La Strada,” “8 1/2”), Michelangelo Antonioni (“L’Avventura,” “Blowup”), Ingmar Bergman (“The Seventh Seal”), and Akira Kurosawa (“Rashomon”) in the middle third of the 20th century.But without Janus Films, a distribution company based at the Brattle Theater, these artistes and their masterpieces might not have reached a broader American audience?...
...trio of criminals who think she can lead them to the fortune her late husband stole from them. The is-he-or-isn't-he-trustworthy stranger who takes her under his wing is Cary Grant. The digital transfer is every bit as lustrous as what Kurosawa and Ingmar Bergman get. The sprightly commentary track - a feature, by the way, that Criterion pretty much invented when it was putting films out on laser disc in the 1980s - is by Donen himself, in conversation with one of the film's screenwriters, Peter Stone...
...company's choice of films shaped the tastes of me and my fellow cinephiles. The other was a sprightly and pliable imagination in showcasing movies. The success Janus had with The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries helped it buy the rights to more than a dozen older and newer Bergman films. But instead of releasing them all separately, Janus packaged the lot in a Bergman retrospective. Theaters would book the program for a two- or three-week run, showing double features for a few days each and making available fold-out brochures on the entire series, with notes...
...Janus was a company that had become a brand - more than that, a beacon. And not just to American moviegoers. In an interview later in his long career, Bergman complained about the shoddy treatment his early films had received in the U.S., with distributors splicing their own footage of nude women into the prints. Then, he said, two young fellows came to see him and showed him and his films the greatest respect. These were the two heads of Janus: Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey...
...Maybe it'll be beamed directly into their brains. That's how I felt when Bergman and Janus showed me what film could...