Janus Challenge Wrap-Up

Posted by on Jan 24, 2010 in Janus Challenge, Video | 3 comments

We put in so many hours watching these films and writing about them that we felt compelled to do a little something special to commemorate the project’s completion.

Read More

Three Documentaries

Posted by on Dec 13, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 1 comment

Who is this Turell fellow, and what is he doing in my Janus set?

Read More

Wild Strawberries

Posted by on Dec 6, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 2 comments

Okay, seriously, now. This is our THIRD Bergman film!

Read More

The White Sheik

Posted by on Nov 29, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 4 comments

“I would love to see a festival dedicated to first films. Sometimes they have nothing to do with the work that develops later, and sometimes the work never gets better. But sometimes you can see the hints of what would come later bursting through like an eruption from another film entirely." - Neil Jordan

Read More

The Wages of Fear

Posted by on Nov 22, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 2 comments

“You don’t know what fear is. But you’ll see. It’s catching. It’s catching like smallpox. And once you get it, it’s for life.” - Dick, in The Wages of Fear

Read More

Viridiana

Posted by on Nov 15, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 4 comments

“I didn’t deliberately set out to be blasphemous, but then Pope John XXIII is a better judge of such things than I am.” - Luis Buñuel

Read More

The Virgin Spring

Posted by on Nov 8, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 1 comment

I watched both The Virgin Spring and its unofficial 1972 remake, The Last House on the Left. Quite a double bill.

Read More

Umberto D.

Posted by on Nov 1, 2009 in Janus Challenge | 3 comments

“My films are a struggle against the absence of human solidarity... against the indifference of society towards suffering. They are a word in favor of the poor and unhappy.” - Vittorio De Sica

Read More