Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar Bergman: The Island of His Mind

Screen gems: Gunnel Lindblom, Jeanne Moreau, and Bibi Andersson with the director in 1959.
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Screen gems: Gunnel Lindblom, Jeanne Moreau, and Bibi Andersson with the director in 1959.

A Bergmaniac remembers the great director for his humility, his seriousness and his love of beautiful women.  read more »

On the YouTube: SCTV's Ingmar Bergman Spoof

One from the vaults:

A favorite SCTV sketch of ours spoofed Ingmar Bergman's cinematic style to great effect.  read more »

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Ingmar Bergman Dead at 89

Ingmar Bergman, director of Smiles of a Summer Night, Seventh Seal and Scenes From a Marriage, among some 50 other films, died of unspecified causes at his home in Faro, Sweden at the age of 89, Swedish news agencies reported this morning.

The New York Times

Associated Press, via ABC News

Hey! Summer Stinks, But Diane Saves Dogs

That sensitive guy again: John Cusack and Diane Lane say anything in <i>Must Love Dogs</i>.
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That sensitive guy again: John Cusack and Diane Lane say anything in Must Love Dogs.

Up to here with aliens, action-comic heroes, chocolate factories and pimps who want to be rap stars,  read more »

Ingmar Bergman Gives Us Scenes From a Long Lifetime

A long life: Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman&#039;s Saraband.
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A long life: Erland Josephson and Liv Ullmann in Ingmar Bergman's Saraband.

If anyone had ever told me back in 1944 that a 26-year-old Swedish screenwriter  read more »

Ingmar Bergman Gives Us Scenes From a Long Lifetime

If anyone had ever told me back in 1944 that a 26-year-old Swedish screenwriter named Ingmar Bergman  read more »

DVD's, Videos, TiVo, Downloadables

Bored of The RingYou'll eventually need something akin to the Dewey decimal system to keep your Lord  read more »

Wielding Big Metal Shears, Bergman Cuts to the Heart of Ibsen's Ghosts

If Ingmar Bergman's production of Ghosts , which played all too briefly at the Brooklyn Academy of M  read more »

Bergman Packs a Punch In Royal Smackdown

Ingmar Bergman's fabulous production of that great royal soap from 1800, Friedrich von Schiller's Ma  read more »

Another Freudian Mobster Ends Up on the Couch

Henry Bromell's Panic ,from his own screenplay, is so much better than its plot sounds that it takes  read more »

Like Cast Away , Minus the No-Frills Part

I don't want to give the wrong impression: My husband workshard.  read more »