I mean, we broke even after 12 years of work." "I barely came out of there with a dollar. "I'll tell you a big secret," Harvey says. Gradually, the number of art houses dwindled, and in 1965 Cy Harvey says he and his partner retired from the film business. But Hollywood studios soon wooed Bergman, Fellini, and Francois Truffaut away from the independent distributor. Janus won its first Academy Award for Ingmar Bergman's Virgin Spring', in 1960. Reporter Andrea Shea explores the history and influence of Janus Films from where it was born - the Brattle Theater in Cambridge, Mass. Fifty years ago, its founders took a chance on distributing a little-known director named Federico Fellini and ushered in the golden age of the art-house cinema. Janus Films is the pre-eminent distributor of classic foreign films in the United States.
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