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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 –…
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…
Fanny 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…
Taste of Cherry (1997) movie review: Breaking of the fourth wall at film’s end nearly ruins Abbas Kiarostami’s otherwise effective suicide drama.
Fanny and Alexander movie (1982) vs. TV miniseries (1983): Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song is even more engrossing in its longer form.
Maj-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. No cause of…
Three Colors: Red movie review: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s brilliant trilogy finale boasts a career-capping star turn by Jean-Louis Trintignant and a career-making one by Irène Jacob.
Ingmar Bergman film series at the Aero Theatre: Starring Best Actress Oscar nominee Ingrid Bergman as a renowned classical pianist and Liv Ullmann as her insecure, resentful daughter, Autumn Sonata…
A Woman Under the Influence 1974 review: John Cassavetes’ indie – starring wife Gena Rowlands as a mad (?) housewife – is evidence that fiercely independent filmmaking doesn’t necessarily result…
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) review: Contemplative Woody Allen comedy costarring Charlotte Rampling, Marie-Christine Barrault, and Jessica Harper is 1 of the most profound films ever.
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,…
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…