The Janus Challenge
During 2009, Matt and I plan to watch and review one movie per week from the monumental (and handsomely bound) 50-film Janus “Essential Art House” set.
We will almost certainly fail.
Wanna synchronize your Netflix queue? Here’s the (tentative) schedule:
- January 4: Alexander Nevsky (Eisenstein)
- January 11: Ashes and Diamonds (Wajda)
- January 18: L’Avventura (Antonioni)
- January 25: Ballad of a Soldier (Chukhrai)
- February 1: Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau)
- February 8: Black Orpheus (Camus)
- February 15: Brief Encounter (Lean)
- February 22: The Fallen Idol (Reed)
- March 1: Fires on the Plain (Ichikawa)
- March 8: Fists in the Pocket (Bellocchio)
- March 15: Floating Weeds (Ozu)
- March 22: Forbidden Games (Clément)
- March 29: The 400 Blows (Truffaut)
- April 5: Grand Illusion (Renoir)
- April 12: Häxan (Christensen)
- April 19: Ikiru (Kurosawa)
- April 26: The Importance of Being Earnest (Asquith)
- May 3: Ivan the Terrible, Part II (Eisenstein)
- May 10: Le jour se lève (Carné)
- May 17: Jules and Jim (Truffaut)
- May 24: Kind Hearts and Coronets (Hamer)
- May 31: Knife in the Water (Polanski)
- June 7: The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
- June 14: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Powell/Pressburger)
- June 21: Loves of a Blonde (Forman)
- June 28: M (Lang)
- July 5: M. Hulot’s Holiday (Tati)
- July 12: Miss Julie (Sjöberg)
- July 19: Pandora’s Box (Pabst)
- July 26: Pépé Le Moko (Duvivier)
- August 2: Il Posto (Olmi)
- August 9: Pygmalion (Asquith/Howard)
- August 16: Rashomon (Kurosawa)
- August 23: Richard III (Olivier)
- August 30: The Rules of the Game (Renoir)
- September 6: Seven Samurai (Kurosawa)
- September 13: The Seventh Seal (Bergman)
- September 20: The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice)
- September 27: La Strada (Fellini)
- October 4: Summertime (Lean)
- October 11: The Third Man (Reed)
- October 18: The 39 Steps (Hitchcock)
- October 25: Ugetsu (Mizoguchi)
- November 1: Umberto D. (De Sica)
- November 8: The Virgin Spring (Bergman)
- November 15: Viridiana (Buñuel)
- November 22: The Wages of Fear (Clouzot)
- November 29: The White Sheik (Fellini)
- December 6: Wild Strawberries (Bergman)
- December 13: Three Documentaries (Turell)
- January 31: Janus Challenge Wrap-Up
