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 …
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Ingrid Bergman Films on TCM: From Cukor to Bergman
10 minutes readIngrid Bergman Movies: From the very Hollywood thriller Gaslight to her masterful, un-glitzy work for fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman.
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Andrew Sarris: Auteur Theory Film Critic & Author Dead
3 minutes readAndrew 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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Heinz Bennent: Volker Schlöndorff & Ingmar Bergman Actor
1 minutes readVeteran 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 …
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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 …
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Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata. Ingrid Bergman movies on TCM 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 …
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Lauren Bacall & Gordon Willis & Roger Corman Academy Honor + Bergman & Thalberg Events
16 minutes readLauren 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 …
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Jan Troell + Harriet Andersson Swedish Oscars Honor
15 minutes readJan Troell and Harriet Andersson Swedish Oscars Honor + anti-capitalist German terrorists and the largely forgotten Oskar Schindler of Nanking.
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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, …
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Michelangelo Antonioni: L’Avventura + La Notte Filmmaker
5 minutes readMichelangelo 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 …
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Ingmar Bergman: Persona + Cries & Whispers Filmmaker
3 minutes readFanny and Alexander: Bertil Guve and Pernilla Allwin are the two young leads in Ingmar Bergman’s 1982 classic that earned the veteran filmmaker his third and last Best Director Oscar …
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Taste of Cherry (movie 1997) review: Breaking of the fourth wall at film’s end nearly ruins Abbas Kiarostami’s otherwise effective suicide drama. Palme d’Or co-winner.
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Fanny and Alexander (Movie 1982): Wonderful Bergman Swan Song
11 minutes readFanny and Alexander (movie 1982) review: Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song, this period family drama is even more engrossing as a miniseries.
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Maj-Britt Nilsson
2 minutes readMaj-Britt Nilsson. Maj-Britt Nilsson, best known for her roles in three Ingmar Bergman films of the early 1950s, died last Dec. 19 in Cannes. She was 82. Nilsson’s three Bergman …
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Three Colors: Red (1994): Brilliant Trilogy Finale
11 minutes readThree Colors: Red (movie 1994) review: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s brilliant ‘mystical’ romantic drama features outstanding work by Irène Jacob and veteran Jean-Louis Trintignant.
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The American Cinematheque to present a 6-week Ingmar Bergman film series with new prints of Cries and Whispers and Autumn Sonata.
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 …
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 …
Stardust Memories (Movie 1980): Greatest Woody Allen Classic?
Stardust Memories (movie 1980) review: Contemplative Woody Allen comedy is one of the most profound films ever made. Charlotte Rampling and Jessica Harper costar.
Persona + Being John Malkovich: ‘Movies on the Mind’
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, …
Best Foreign Films? Academy Awards’ European Slant + Hip Hop Immigration Drama Tops Swedish Oscars
Best Foreign Language Film Oscar European slant clear as only 1 exception among contenders + hip-hopping immigration drama tops Guldbagge Awards.