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 Films
Company typePrivate
IndustryMotion picture distribution
Founded1956 (1956)
Cambridge, Massachusetts
FounderBryant Haliday
Cyrus Harvey Jr.
Headquarters
New York City, New York
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U.S.
Key people
Saul J. Turell
William J. Becker
Revenue$6.1 million USD (2007)
SubsidiariesThe Criterion Collection
Websitewww.janusfilms.com

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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