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Criterion: November 2023 Janus Contemporaries Titles Announced

Godland Iceland, Denmark2022143 minutesColor1.33:1Icelandic, DanishDirected by Hlynur Pálmason Blu-rayDVD NOVEMBER 21, 2023 The struggle between the strictures of religion and humankind’s brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes […]

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Criterion: October 2023 Janus Contemporaries Titles Announced

EO Poland, Italy202288 minutesColor1.33:1PolishDirected by Jerzy Skolimowski Blu-rayDVD OCTOBER 17, 2023 Legendary director Jerzy Skolimowski created one of his freest and most visually inventive films yet with this story of a gray donkey named EO. After being removed from an itinerant circus, EO begins a trek across the countryside, experiencing cruelty and kindness from a […]