Janus Films
Janus Films is an American
film distribution company. The distributor is credited with introducing numerous films, now considered masterpieces of world cinema, to American audiences, including the films of
Michelangelo Antonioni ,
Sergei Eisenstein ,
Ingmar Bergman ,
Federico Fellini ,
Akira Kurosawa ,
Satyajit Ray ,
François Truffaut ,
Yasujirō Ozu and many other well-regarded directors. Ingmar Bergman's ''
The Seventh Seal '' (1957) was the film responsible for the company's initial growth.
Janus has a close business relationship with
The Criterion Collection regarding the release of its films on
DVD and
Blu-ray and is still an active theatrical distributor.
The company's name and
logo come from
Janus , the two-faced
Roman god of transitions, passages, beginnings, and endings.
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