Ingmar Bergman (right) will be the subject of a weekend-long salute — with the screening of five of his Academy Award-nominated and winning films — beginning Friday, April 4, at 7 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’s Linwood Dunn Theater in Hollywood.
The opening night of "An Academy Salute to Ingmar Bergman" [...]
2007 Swedish Film Institute’s Guldbagge Awards
2007 Swedish Film Institute’s Guldbagge (Golden Beetle aka Golden Bug) award nominations: January 8, 2008. A special six-member jury later picked the Best Achievement winners.
2007 Guldbagge award winners: Stockholm, January 21, 2008
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Roy Andersson’s You the Living (above), about the day-to-day difficulties of human life, [...]
En Passion / A Passion / The Passion of Anna (1969)
Direction and screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, Erland Josephson, Erik Hell
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Ingmar Bergman’s 1969 drama En Passion / A Passion (in the U.S., mistitled as The Passion of Anna) is a great film — in fact, [...]
Via Nordisk Film & TV Fond:
The Knight Templars are at it again. First, the brouhaha was about heresy (remember that The Da Vinci Code was banned in several countries); now it’s about the more mundane matter of money — or lack thereof.
Budgeted at more than US$ 30 million, Arn the Knight Templar is the most [...]
Ingmar Bergman: A mere director of actresses?
David Bordwell on Jonathan Rosenbaum’s New York Times Op-Ed on Ingmar Bergman:
"Jonathan Rosenbaum has created quite a stir. His New York Times Op-Ed piece, ‘Scenes from an Overrated Career,’ offers a fairly harsh judgment on the films of Ingmar Bergman. In one sense the timing was awkward; the [...]
Woody Allen on Ingmar Bergman in "The Man Who Asked Hard Questions" in the New York Times:
"I’ve said it before to people who have a romanticized view of the artist and hold creation sacred: In the end, your art doesn’t save you. No matter what sublime works you fabricate (and Bergman gave us a menu [...]
Derek Malcolm in The Evening Standard (via This Is London):
"The time when crowds rushed off to the Academy or the Paris Pullman art houses to mull over the latest masterpieces from Ingmar Bergman or Michelangelo Antonioni seem like an age ago. Now they are both dead, and within 24 hours of each other, too. The [...]
A.O. Scott discusses Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman in the New York Times:
"By the time I entered my own phase of undergraduate cinephilia … [in the mid-1980s], Mr. Bergman’s greatness was beyond dispute, and Mr. Antonioni’s reputation was only slightly less secure. The two of them — along with the other masters whose work had [...]
Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential and respected filmmakers of the 20th century, died today, July 30, at his home in Faro, Sweden. He was 89.
During his four-decade film career, Bergman created some of the most complex, most adult films ever made. Some of those were simply mind boggling, others were emotionally stirring, [...]
Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 psychological drama Persona and Spike Jonze’s 1999 psychobizarro comedy Being John Malkovich will screen as a double feature on Friday, July 20, at 7 p.m. at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences‘ Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.
The psycho-double feature is being presented in conjunction with the ongoing exhibition "Movies [...]
Also at the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival organizers will screen three silent films:
A restored print of The Iron Mask (April 28), Allan Dwan’s 1929 Three Musketeers swashbuckler, notable as Douglas Fairbanks’s last silent film;
Victor Sjöström’s (aka Victor Seastrom) 1921 classic Körkarlen / The Phantom Carriage (April 27), [...]
Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf(1968)
Direction and Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman. Cast: Max von Sydow, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica:
Vargtimmen / Hour of the Wolf, a 1968 film by Ingmar Bergman, proves the nostrum that even lesser work by a great artist surpasses the better work of lesser artists, for Bergman can [...]
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Why Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 final ‘filmic film,’ Fanny och Alexander / Fanny & Alexander bears the appellation it does is a mystery — one of many in the film — since the first titular character, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) is at best a third- or fourth-level supporting character, and in [...]
The Hollywood Academy Award nominations were announced yesterday, one day after the winners of the Swedish Oscars — the Guldbagge (Golden Beetles) — were announced to considerably less fanfare (except, perhaps, in Sweden).
In any case, just because Golden Beetle winners are less internationally famous than the Oscar nominees that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re [...]
Swedish actress Maj-Britt Nilsson, best known for her roles in three Ingmar Bergman films of the early 1950s, died this past Dec. 19 in Cannes. She was 82. No cause of death was announced.
Nilsson’s three Bergman films are Till glädje / To Joy (1950), in which she is an orchestra player whose husband (Stig Olin) [...]
At european-films.net, Boyd van Hoeij interviews actor-director Jesper Ganslandt, and actors and co-creators John Axel Eriksson and Jörgen Svensson, whose touching Swedish coming-of-age drama Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell was presented in the Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival, and was Sweden’s official submission for the 2006 foreign-language Oscar.
In addition, Farväl [...]
The Swedish Film Institute has announced the nominees for its 42nd Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) Awards.
All three best film nominees are their respective directors’ feature-film debuts:
Farväl Falkenberg / Falkenberg Farewell (top), is Jesper Ganslandt’s touching and more than little disturbing coming-of-age comedy-drama. Shot in semi-documentary style, Farväl Falkenberg follows five childhood friends in the [...]
2006 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle Awards
The 2006 Swedish Film Institute’s Golden Beetle (Guldbagge aka Golden Bug) award nominations were announced on January 10, 2007.
The 2006 Golden Beetle award winners were announced at Cirkus in Stockholm on January 22, 2007.
2006 Golden Beetle Winners - Article
2006 Golden Beetle Nominees - Article
("*" denotes the winner in each [...]
The 2006 Festival of Jewish Cinema, consisting of "contemporary films on Jewish themes from around the world," opens on Nov. 1 in Melbourne.
Among the festival’s entries are Brice Cauvin’s De particulier à particulier / Hotel Harabati, about a French couple (Laurent Lucas and Hélène Fillières) who find themselves involved in a possible Muslim terrorist plot [...]
Surprisingly, Jens Lien’s Den Brysomme mannen / The Bothersome Man, one of the best-received Norwegian films in recent years and the winner of the Best Director and Best Screenplay Amandas — Norway’s top film awards — was passed over as that country’s submission for the 2006 Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award. Instead, Joachim Trier’s [...]
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica
I should no longer be surprised when critics miss the most obvious things in works of art, because they are human beings, and the vast majority of human beings are lazy by nature. That said, the simplistic notion that Ingmar Bergman’s great 1968 drama Skammen / Shame is merely anti-war does [...]
Among the nineteen films in the main section of the San Sebastián International Film Festival are John Boorman’s The Tiger’s Tail, about twins whose radically different paths become intertwined later in life; Lars von Trier’s big-business charade Direktøren for det Hele / The Boss of It All; and Forever, director Heddy Honigmann’s look at the [...]
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Among the 49 entries vying for the 2006 Best European Film nominations are:
Berlin Film Festival winner Grbavica, Jasmila Zbanic’s Bosnian War tale about a girl who discovers that her mother has been less than honest about the identity of her long-lost father; Il Caimano / The Cayman, Nanni Moretti’s cinematic attack on right-wing Italian Prime [...]
The biting drama Den Brysomme mannen / The Bothersome Man, the apparent favorite at Norway’s 2006 Amanda Film Awards, did win three of the six top awards this past Friday, Aug. 18: Best Director (Jens Lien), Best Actor (Trond Fausa Aurvåg, who also directed the winning short film, Alene menn sammen / Lonely Together), and [...]
By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica
Leo Tolstoy once opined that all happy families are happy in a few ways, while those that are not suffer in many unique ways. This apothegm was never more well evinced than in filmmaker Ingmar Bergman’s five-hour 1973 Swedish telefilm Scener ur ett äktenskap / Scenes from a Marriage, a miniseries [...]
