Bibi Andersson in The Seventh Seal. Remembering international arthouse cinema icon Bibi Andersson: Frequent Ingmar Bergman actress & four-time ‘Swedish Oscar’ winner International arthouse cinema icon Bibi Andersson, a blonde beauty best known for her…
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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 career of Greta Garbo. Today,…
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Fanny and Alexander movie: Ingmar Bergman brilliant classic with Bertil Guve as Alexander Ekdahl. ‘Fanny and Alexander’ movie review: Last Ingmar Bergman ‘filmic film’ Why Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander / Fanny och Alexander bears…
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Bette Davis sings “What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?” About two decades later, Davis herself would be the subject of a song: Kim Carnes sings “Bette Davis’ Eyes.” Bette Davis Singing ‘What Ever Happened to…
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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 Cinema Paradiso has become a…
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Victor Sjöström’s The Scarlet Letter with Lillian Gish. Considering that religious puritans (and their politically correct cohorts) continue to plague the world at the beginning of the third millennium, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter remains…
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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 2011 with a screening of…
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Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Bergman, 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, August 6 – Ingrid Bergman Day – on…
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The Sacrifice. Watching Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky’s final work, The Sacrifice / Offret (1986), is an exercise in cinema appreciation. That’s not because The Sacrifice is a great film, but because it has great moments interspersed…
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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 the Academy of Motion Picture…
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Jan Troell & Harriet Andersson Swedish Oscars Honor + German Terrorists & Oskar Schindler of Nanking
Jan Troell Swedish Oscars honor: Best Film Guldbagge Award winner Everlasting Moments with Maria Heiskanen. A feature film director since the mid-1960s (Here’s Your Life, Ole dole doff), Jan Troell – whose credits include The Emigrants, The New…
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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, April 4, at 7 p.m.…
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The Passion of Anna with Liv Ullmann. 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, it may be…
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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 Michel Serrault were the other…
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Ingmar Bergman: ‘Persona’ & ‘The Seventh Seal’ + ‘Cries and Whisper’s filmmaker dead at 89 Ingmar Bergman, one of the most influential and acclaimed filmmakers of the twentieth century, died on July 30 at his…
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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, July 20, at 7 p.m.…
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