Word: janus
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...Peter Cowie describes it in his comprehensive and evocative study of Janus in the 240-page book included with Essential Art House, the company had its roots in the early '50s, when Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey started showing old movies - Humphrey Bogart dramas and W. C. Fields comedies - at the Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, Mass. Then Haliday and Harvey had the first of many inspirations, as heralded by a sign on the Brattle facade: "Opening Soon! Foreign Films." With the success of their new program, they moved to New York City and leased the 55th Street Playhouse...
...specialized form of pop culture could keep the heat up for long, and in the mid-'60s the foreign-language film wave started to ebb. In 1966, Haliday and Harvey gave up control of Janus, with Haliday going to Europe to concentrate on his acting career. (IMDb notes that two of the films he appeared in, Devil Doll and The Projected Man, were cheesy enough to be riffed on Mystery Science Theater 3000.) The company was taken over by Saul Turrell and William Becker, who steered Janus into its non-theatrical middle age, and whose sons Jonathan Turrell and Peter...
...Maybe it'll be beamed directly into their brains. That's how I felt when Bergman and Janus showed me what film could...
...what has turned out to be my most enduring obsession is DVDs, since it's just the product-line expression of my lifelong fascination with movies. So it was only a matter of time before I found my way to Criterion, the DVD company that grew out of the Janus film collection and Voyager/Criterion laser disc...
...during its interval as a laser disc company that Criterion virtually invented the DVD as we know it. Over the years the Criterion collection has developed beyond its origins with the Janus inventory to become a very well selected group of more than 300 titles, almost always produced to standards that very few other DVD companies bother with...