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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Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014: Two Lives with Liv Ullmann and Julia Bache-Wiig. Best Foreign Language Film Oscar 2014 semifinalists: Liv Ullmann potential Academy Awards comeback Out of 76…
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Women in film. Women in Film: Marilyn Monroe + Ava Gardner & dozens of movie actresses in curious morphing montage A few dozen top international female movie stars, most of…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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Psychological movies: Movies on the Mind since Sigmund Freud “I don’t believe it’s possible to graphically represent the abstract nature of our thinking in a respectable form,” said Sigmund Freud.…
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In his 1966 ‘Swinging London’ masterwork Blow-Up, Michelangelo Antonioni questions the perception of reality. David Hemmings + Vanessa Redgrave star.
Persepolis controversy: Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud animated feature offends – some of – Tunisia’s Fundamentalist Muslims. Persepolis Broadcast: Tunisian Television Station President Apologizes to Offended Muslims Three days ago…
Ingmar Bergman’s sumptuous big-screen swan song, the 1982 period family drama Fanny and Alexander is even more engrossing in its longer form.