Ingmar Bergman

Ingrid Bergman. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM: From the artificial ‘Gaslight’ to the magisterial ‘Autumn Sonata’ Two days ago, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series highlighted the film…

Ira Sachs’ moving gay romantic drama Love Is Strange makes great use of cinema’s various crafts. Cast: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina and Marisa Tomei.

Andrew Sarris, auteur theory proponent in the U.S., died earlier today at St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital in Manhattan, apparently of complications caused by a stomach virus. Sarris, who was 83, was…

Erland Josephson, The Sacrifice: Ingmar Bergman actor also collaborated with Andrei Tarkovsky. Erland Josephson, who was featured in more than a dozen Ingmar Bergman movies in addition to several plays…

Anna Magnani in Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima (1951). At the end of Giuseppe Tornatore’s Best Foreign Language Film Oscar winner Cinema Paradiso, small-town projectionist Philippe Noiret has died and the Nuovo…

Veteran German actor Heinz Bennent died on Oct. 12. He was 90. The Aachen-born (July 18, 1921) Heinz Bennent never became an international name despite several important roles in international…

The Gay Divorcee: Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musical. It’s too bad I’m posting this a little too late, as the Library of Congress’ Packard Campus Theater welcomed the year…

Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata. Ingrid Bergman’s best on-screen performance, as Liv Ullmann’s painfully self-centered mother in Ingmar Bergman’s Autumn Sonata, can be appreciated on Friday, Aug. 6 – Ingrid…

Lauren Bacall in How to Marry a Millionaire, with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable. Lauren Bacall, Roger Corman, and Gordon Willis have been chosen by the Board of Governors of…

Contemplative Woody Allen comedy Stardust Memories is 1 of the most profound films ever. Marie-Christine Barrault and Charlotte Rampling costar.

Cries and Whispers. 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,…

Michelangelo Antonioni, the film master of modern alienation, despair, and ennui, was the third important personage of world cinema to die in the last three days – Ingmar Bergman and…

Persona with Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 psychological drama Persona and Spike Jonze’s 1999 psycho-bizarro comedy Being John Malkovich will screen as a double feature on Friday,…

Breaking of the fourth wall at film’s end nearly ruins Abbas Kiarostami’s otherwise effective suicide drama Taste of Cherry. Palme d’Or co-winner.

Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song, the 1982 period family drama Fanny and Alexander is even more engrossing in its longer form.

Water with Lisa Ray. Set in the late 1930s, during the British occupation of India, Deepa Mehta’s Water created quite a stir during its production in that country. Spoken in…

Krzysztof Kieslowski’s brilliant Three Colors: Red features Jean-Louis Trintignant in a career-capping star turn and Irène Jacob in a career-making one.

The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.