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...Janus, the most ancient king of Italy, was represented by two faces because he knew the past and the future and because, as the sun, he ushered the day in and out. He presided over gates and avenues. Which isn't too interesting, except that there's not much else to say about the Janus film festival running this week at the Harvard Square. With a couple of exceptions, there will be two solid masterpieces a day, so many miles of beautiful celluloid that the only hazard is OD-ing on quality. To shake the habit there's always High...
...problem with staging Kafka is that Kafka's realism is a tactile, not a visual one. K. is a faceless man in a Janus-faced world where you stub your toe on invisible rocks and hang your head against undetectable walls. It is a universe of paradox, people by bureaucrats, Chinese emperors and courts of law: all of which may or may not be mythical depending on whether you subscribe to them or not. To translate this state of affairs into performable drama is a challenge that Sanders and in some spots the Ensemble have barely missed meeting...
...This gives students an opportunity to drop in and ask a question for five or ten minutes at a time, not to discuss major problems," Niki Janus, assistant to the president for special projects, explained yesterday...
...Harvard Square's Janus Film Festival the films change every day, and every one is a classic--the most notable being Jean Renoir's Rules of the Game (1939), brilliant film both verbally and visually, that gyrates between starkly powerful drama and very funny comedy. Rules of the Game dissects pre-WWII French society with such precision that it caused riots among bourgeouis audiences when first released. It was not shown again until the late...
...most intriguing Janus program is the pair of French gangster films Casque D'Or (1952) and Pepe Le Moko (1936). Pepe unabashedly imitates American films like Scarface, but period piece Casque set in the Belleville district of Paris in 1898, has golden-haired Simone Signoret as well as a guillotine to set it apart...