Here are a dozen Ingmar Bergman films that deserve inclusion in any library. Summer With Monika (1953) The director's rapt exaltation of the fleeting joys of a Scandinavian summer. Two bored young ...
On the surface, Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" might seem like a parody of Swedish art films -- a moody, insular drama filled with extended silences, repressed emotions and existential despair. It ...
Perhaps you remember The Dove, a 1974 short film parodying the works of Ingmar Bergman. Directed by George Coe and Anthony Lover, the film pays loving, playful and humorous homage to Bergman’s ...
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, one of the masters of modern cinema whose brooding and incisive studies of the human psyche won international acclaim — and three Oscars — died Monday at age 89.
Bibi Andersson, the luminous Swedish actress who personified first purity and youth, then complexity and disillusionment, in 13 midcentury Ingmar Bergman films, died Sunday in Stockholm. She was 83.
Sensible, sixtyish Marianne (Liv Ullmann) is getting exasperated with her cranky, octogenarian ex-husband Johan (Erland Josephson). “Sometimes,” she says, “you act like a forgotten character from some ...
The somber figure of Ingmar Bergman no longer looms over the film world like a guilty conscience, but the great Swedish director has spawned enough artistic descendants to keep us supplied with thorny ...