Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman was one of the most noted filmmakers of his time and was known to create films that fixated on death, illness, and the darker fate of humanity that awaits everyone eventually but is not often considered wise to speak of. He wrote and directed around 60 films and directed about 170 plays, ...

Norwegian actress and director Liv Ullmann is best known for her performances in the films of Ingmar Bergman. From her breakthrough role in his 1966 film Persona, she became the Swedish director's leading actress and muse, starring in Hour of the Wolf (1968), The Passion of Anna (1969), Cries and ...

Ernst Ingmar Bergman's birth in the year 1918 coincided with two significant events: the end of World War I and the 'birth' of Lord Krishna. Krishna was born that very year in Dadasaheb Phalke's silent film, Shree Krishna Janma. More than two decades later, he would come to India in 1947 to make the film ...

The second edition of the Habitat International Film Festival (HIFF), to be held here from March 23rd to April 1, will have its focus on the 61-year cinematic journey of acclaimed and influential Swedish director Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), among other highlights. HIFF will join the worldwide celebrations ...

Ingmar Bergman's 1975 production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, originally made for television, is now rereleased as part of the Bergman centenary retrospective at London's BFI Southbank. It has gaiety and mystery. To consider it between, say, his Smiles of a Summer Night and Fanny and Alexander, ...

Prolific Swedish director Ingmar Bergman was known for his films, which focus on the bleakness of human connection and themes of religious repression, sexual frustration and existentialism. Central to a number of Bergman's films was his relationships with his repertory company, a group of Swedish ...

Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson in Ingmar Bergman's 1973 film "Scenes From a Marriage." Ullmann appreciated the roles Bergman wrote for her. But she says her character in “Scenes”—an insecure intellectual who comes into herself through a painful divorce—is someone “I felt maybe also could come ...

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman would have turned 100 this July 14. In honor of the centennial, the Cleveland Cinematheque will screen seven of his cinematic classics, including "The Seventh Seal" and "Wild Strawberries." The series "Ingmar Bergman 100: Essentials" starts today at the Peter Lewis ...

Ingmar Bergman's The Silence (1963) is considered by many to be part of the “silence of God” trilogy but its subject matter and nature challenges that claim. Unlike Through a Glass, Darkly (1961) and Winter Light (1963), The Silence stands on its own as a rebellion against language and text (the ...

Ingmar Bergman is one of the 20th century greats. Ask just about any modern day filmmaker or aspiring student filmmaker, and, chances, are they'll cite at least one Bergman film as being hugely influential. In honor of the centennial of the art-house Swedish director's birth, Janus Films is doing us a huge ...

“Muse” is a limiting term, even offensive to some, positioning women in an subject-object relationship to the male artists they inspire. But it's one of the best ways to describe what Liv Ullmann meant to Ingmar Bergman, the greatest filmmaker Sweden ever produced and Ullmann's longtime partner both ...

Ingmar Bergman's centennial is on July 14, and Janus Films is touring the country with a massive retrospective in honor of the 100th birthday of cinema's most influential Swedish director. The retrospective includes 32 Bergman works, all of which have been digitally restored and some of which have never ...

When it comes to filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, it's all about the three S's: slow, somber, and Scandinavian. Of course there's worlds more to his work than that, but it's true that the Swedish mid-century director was responsible for bringing a distinctive cinematic tradition from parts north to American attention ...

This year marks the centenary of the birth of Ingmar Bergman, and, for any New Yorkers keen to pay homage, the journey starts now. Over the next five weeks, starting on Thursday with “The Seventh Seal” (1957), Film Forum will be showing forty-seven films. One of Bergman's most appealing traits is that, ...

Oscilloscope has acquired North American distribution rights to Ingmar Bergman – Legacy Of Defining Genius documentary, which will get a theatrical run this year. The doc hails from Margarethe von Trotta's collaboration with co-director Felix Moeller, made with the participation and inclusion of Bergman's ...

Ingmar Bergman on set in the 60s. Photograph: Bonniers Hylen/AFP/Getty. No one did more to popularise Bergman for English-speaking audiences than Woody Allen. Like his Swedish idol, Allen adored and fetishised women, returning to the same faces like Monet to his lilies. Bergman, though, did not ...

When Ingmar Bergman (July 14, 1918 – July 30, 2007) was honoured with the Erasmus Prize in 1965, he could not attend the ceremony. Instead, he sent a piece to be read out titled 'The Snakeskin'. It is one of the bleakest in its genre, a strange and bitter testimony to the sense of doubt and futility that ...