Pittsburgh Filmmakers presents
Essential Art House: 50 Years of Janus Films
Sep 21 - Oct 4, 2007
At the moment that the studio system was dissolving and lighter equipment was making genuinely independent filmmaking a reality, artists like Ingmar Bergman, Akira Kurosawa, and François Truffaut were committing art in the first degree, without shame or qualification, and inspiring a new generation of future directors in the process. And filmgoers, too. The Seventh Seal, The 400 Blows, Viridiana, The Seven Samurai – epochal events all, from what is now considered the Golden Age of art cinema. They were the building blocks of a new American film culture, and they changed the way movies were seen, the way they were discussed, and, most certainly, the way they were made. When the bulk of these films debuted in this country, they were accompanied by a curious logo, a coin of the two-faced Janus: Roman god of open doors and transitions, celebrated at harvests, weddings, and births, and, appropriately, herald of the coming of the Golden Age.
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