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TVOvermind
April 2, 2018
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,ÃÂ ...
CBC.ca
March 25, 2018
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 andÃÂ ...
Hindustan Times
March 23, 2018
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 filmÃÂ ...
Business Standard
March 21, 2018
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 celebrationsÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 16, 2018
Ingmar Bergman's 1975 production of Mozart's The Magic Flute, originally made for television, is now rereleased as part of the Bergman centenary retrospective at London's BFI Southbank.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,ÃÂ ...
NYU Washington Square News
March 8, 2018
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 SwedishÃÂ ...
Newsweek
March 6, 2018
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 comeÃÂ ...
cleveland.com
March 4, 2018
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 LewisÃÂ ...
Splice Today
March 2, 2018
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 (theÃÂ ...
Stark Insider
March 2, 2018
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 hugeÃÂ ...
Vulture
March 2, 2018
“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 bothÃÂ ...
IndieWire
February 12, 2018
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 neverÃÂ ...
Vulture
February 7, 2018
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 attentionÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
February 7, 2018
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,ÃÂ ...
Deadline
February 6, 2018
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'sÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 4, 2018
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 notÃÂ ...
The Wire
December 31, 1999
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 thatÃÂ ...
Romania-Insider.com
February 13, 2018
The Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF) will organize at this year's edition an ample retrospective dedicated to Swedish director Ingmar Bergman. The retrospective is meant to mark 100 years since the birth of the filmmaker. Under the headline Closeup Ingmar Bergman, it will be part of the 17thÃÂ ...
IndieWire
February 12, 2018
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 been given aÃÂ ...
Vulture
February 7, 2018
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 attentionÃÂ ...
Deadline
February 6, 2018
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'sÃÂ ...
The Guardian
February 4, 2018
Compulsively watchable … Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona, part of the BFI's retrospective. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo. In 1971, Ingmar Bergman had just completed his first English-language film, The Touch. It starred Elliott Gould as an American archaeologist in Sweden, who has an affairÃÂ ...
iNews
January 26, 2018
Max Von Sydow commented of why the great Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (whose centenary is celebrated this year) stopped directing feature films after making the Oscar winning Fanny And Alexande (1982). Day-Lewis is clearly a perfectionist in a similar mould to Bergman. We all know about hisÃÂ ...
SFGate
January 25, 2018
Ingmar Bergman is without question one of cinema's most important directors, his often existential films exploring the angst and doubt inherent in the human experience like few other filmmakers. As Bergman's muse, lover, longtime friend and collaborator, Liv Ullmann rode shotgun on a nine-film journeyÃÂ ...
Nordstjernan
January 21, 2018
Bergman 100: A Tribute to Liv Ullmann is a retrospective of Ingmar Bergman's films at Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive on February 1-24. The festival kicks off with an in-person appearance by Bergman's longtime muse Liv Ullmann on February 1 and 3. Ullmann (1938 - ), an acclaimed Norwegian actress whoÃÂ ...
The Boston Globe
January 18, 2018
The family lives in a stark part of Norway in a house that looks like a cross between the Bates Motel and a godforsaken chapel in an early Ingmar Bergman film. No wonder Thelma is happy to get away to a university in Oslo, even though the campus is a monument of brutalist architecture where she is seenÃÂ ...
Londonist
January 8, 2018
Any serious film buffs or cinema lovers will be familiar with world-class Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. To celebrate his centenary, BFI Southbank is screening three months of his films, in a season which is set to be a cracker.
The Guardian
January 6, 2018
Hard-hitting film takes aim at Ingmar Bergman's flawed way with women ... A new Swedish documentary commissioned for this year's centenary of the birth of Ingmar Bergman is to examine the sexual relationships in which the Swedish film director engaged with almost all of his actresses, and detail hisÃÂ ...
First Showing (blog)
January 5, 2018
Celebrating 100 years of Ingmar Bergman's Cinema. Janus Films has debuted a trailer to celebrate their upcoming Ingmar Bergman Retrospective, which will be launching at the Film Forum in NYC next month. This is a big year for legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, who would've beenÃÂ ...
OperaWire
January 3, 2018
One of these is Ingmar Bergman's incredible “The Magic Flute,” which is combination of a staged opera within a narrative film. Bergman constantly blurs the lines between the two during the actual performance of the Mozart masterpiece and does so with tremendous style. For those wondering how liveÃÂ ...
TheStranger.com
January 3, 2018
My bet is he watched the Ingmar Bergman film Summer with Monika, the same film that plays on January 11 at Seattle Art Museum, opening the two-month-long series called Winter Light: The Films of Ingmar Bergman. Released in 1953, Summer with Monika shocked audiences around the world with theÃÂ ...
The Times
December 30, 2017
Ingmar Bergman was born in 1918, and his centenary is being marked with a three-month season of his films at BFI Southbank, in London (from tomorrow), and a wider rerelease for this 1966 movie, a mysterious psychodrama about a battle of wills between a nurse (Bibi Andersson) and her one patient (LivÃÂ ...
Nordstjernan
December 27, 2017
He died four years later at the age of 89; and 2018 is dedicated to him: The Year of Bergman 2018 celebrates the rich legacy of the great Ingmar Bergman who would have been 100 years old on July 14, 2018. The Year of Bergman 2018 is already underway, with more than 100 events, exhibits, performances and specialÃÂ ...
KQED
December 20, 2017
Ingmar Bergman's films are often compelling and disturbing in equal measure, psychological puzzles about the tragedy of the human condition. In some ways his movies mirror his childhood, when he played with marionettes he'd made himself. “Life around me,” Bergman recalled in an interview with DickÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
December 31, 1999
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,ÃÂ ...
DC Theatre Scene
December 7, 2017
As part of the Bergman 100 Celebration, an event marking the centenary of the iconic Swedish filmmaker and stage director Ingmar Bergman, The Kennedy Center is presenting a stage version of one of his later movies. If you are a devotee of the great man, or have any interest in exploring the thrillingly ...
Prague Daily Monitor
December 6, 2017
Prague, Dec 5 (CTK) - Film screenings as well as exhibitions will be held in the Czech Republic next year within the Bergman 100 project marking the 100th birth anniversary of the legendary Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007), the organisers told reporters on Tuesday. The events will be ...
Nordstjernan
December 6, 2017
Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) is considered one of the most accomplished and influential auteurs of all time. The legendary Swedish artist directed more than 60 films and documentaries, most of which he also wrote, and directed more than 170 plays. His creations constantly navigated the boundaries of ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 5, 2017
The focus here is on a World War I Christmas truce among French. British and German soldiers in the trenches of Europe. ▻Fanny and Alexander, an epic Oscar-winning Swedish family saga, and one of the greatest films by the masterful Ingmar Bergman. Available in a three-hour theatrical cut or a six-hour ...
Broadway.com
December 1, 2017
Wicked veteran and Broadway.com Audience Choice Award winner Kerry Ellis will star as Gwendolen in a 2018 UK tour of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. The production will begin on January 24 at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and end on April 28 in Eastbourne. Ellis will be ...
Foster's Daily Democrat
December 1, 2017
With its debt to Stephen King and Ingmar Bergman never less than obvious, “Thelma” still manages to exert its own subtle power. As a hushed, haunting portrait of a young woman reconciling daughterly duty and her own incipient power, “Thelma” feels like a stylish, timely allegory for the present moment.
San Francisco Examiner
December 1, 2017
Thelma: Described as a “potent cross between Stephen King and Ingmar Bergman,” the Norwegian film by Joachim Trier film is a haunting, unnerving story of a young misfit struggling with repressed emotions. Not rated. At the Opera Plaza. Tom of Finland: The Finnish biopic, an Oscar entry for foreign film, ...
The Georgetown Dish
November 28, 2017
The US Premiere of Private Confessions, part of the Bergman 100 Celebration will take place Wednesday, December 6 through Saturday, December 9, 2017 in the Eisenhower Theater at The Kennedy Center. A co-production between National Theater of Norway and Riksteatret, the performance is in ...
Under the Radar Mag
November 28, 2017
... last official Sparks full-length release, a 2009 radio drama written for Swedish radio entitled The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, and the film-obsessed duo has ...
Cinema Blend
November 28, 2017
I made a joke, I said to him, 'Hey Ridley, who is your favorite director?' And he said, 'I love Ingmar Bergman and Kubrick.' I said 'I love Bergman ...
slantmagazine
November 18, 2017
Golden Exits has inevitably been compared to the work of Woody Allen and Ingmar Bergman—associations that Perry's courting—but the film's ...
The Independent
November 18, 2017
We all wanted to be – and I hate the word – HAND-PICKED – yes, she was hand-picked – by the big director, by Ingmar Bergman or whoever.
Volkskrant
November 18, 2017
artikelZijn roman Brooklyn werd succesvol verfilmd en zijn hervertelling van Griekse tragedies Het huis van de namen alom bejubeld. De Ierse ...
New York Times
November 17, 2017
But this isn't happening in a sad, Swedish, Ingmar Bergman kind of way; rather, it's infused with an American rom-com cheeriness. George and ...
The Chronicle of Higher Education
November 12, 2017
Ingmar Bergman's "Face to Face" by Michael Tapper (Wallflower Press, distributed by Columbia University Press; 242 pages; $90 hardcover, ...
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