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Video: Max von Sydow Talks the Silence of The Renter
22 December 2011 10:39 PM, PST | Thompson on Hollywood | See recent Thompson on Hollywood news »
I first encountered Max von Sydow on the big screen playing chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman's "The Seventh Seal" at The New Yorker in Manhattan when I was a teenager. He's surprised that I've seen it. "You watched black and white films?" he asks, admitting that this is his first flipcam interview. I've been watching the great Swedish actor all my life; he's a year older than my father would be, 82, and he's still a big tall strong movie star. He's been making movies in many countries for 62 years, from Italy and Sweden ("The Wild Strawberries," The Virgin Spring," "The Passion of Anna") to Hollywood »
Silent Sundays: ‘The Phantom Carriage’ (Victor Sjostrom, 1921)
18 December 2011 5:59 PM, PST | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Directed by Victor Sjostrom
Written by Selma Lagerlof and Victor Sjostrom
Cinematography by Julius Jaenzon
For many, the tired face and defeated body of Victor Sjostrom became synonymous with mortality in Ingmar Bergman’s pivotal film, Wild Strawberries. Few know that he was not only Bergman’s mentor but one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. For Bergman, there was no greater film than Sjostrom’s The Phantom Carriage and he would revisit it yearly, often on a summer day, losing himself in it’s angst and plays of light.
There are many similarities between Wild Strawberries and The Phantom Carriage. The most obvious being the central force of Sjostrom, who not only directs The Phantom Carriage but stars in it as well. Both are about men hardened by life, forced to confront and reflect upon their empty existence. Sjostrom plays a much younger man in his own film, »
- Justine
Maria Schneider, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Kent, Tura Satana: TCM Remembers 2011 Pt.2
13 December 2011 4:16 PM, PST | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Elizabeth Taylor, Farley Granger, Jane Russell, Peter Falk, Sidney Lumet: TCM Remembers 2011 Pt. 1
Also: child actor John Howard Davies (David Lean's Oliver Twist), Charles Chaplin discovery Marilyn Nash (Monsieur Verdoux), director and Oscar ceremony producer Gilbert Cates (Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams, I Never Sang for My Father), veteran Japanese actress Hideko Takamine (House of Many Pleasures), Jeff Conaway of Grease and the television series Taxi, and Tura Satana of the cult classic Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!.
More: Neva Patterson, who loses Cary Grant to Deborah Kerr in An Affair to Remember; Ingmar Bergman cinematographer Gunnar Fischer (Smiles of a Summer Night, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries); Marlon Brando's The Wild One leading lady Mary Murphy; and two actresses featured in controversial, epoch-making films: Lena Nyman, the star of the Swedish drama I Am Curious (Yellow), labeled as pornography by prudish American authorities back in the late '60s, »
- Andre Soares
Sony Pictures Classics Bringing America ‘The Raid’ This Spring
29 November 2011 3:21 PM, PST | The Film Stage | See recent The Film Stage news »
Before their sister company Screen Gems remakes it, Sony Pictures Classics will bring American audiences Gareth Evans‘ highly-anticipated Toronto hit The Raid. Deadline reports on the acquisition, which, given the corporation’s current possession of the film’s rights, is no surprise. (Giving this to, say, Columbia for a wide release would be a big mistake, when you factor in the presence of subtitles.) A release date hasn’t been set just now, but with a possible appearance at Sundance in January, a spring date is in store. Unfortunately, that also means we have to get a soundtrack from Linkin Park member Mike Shinoda. C’est la vie.
The Indonesian action film has a rather simple plot: A Swat team infiltrates and attempts to take over an apartment complex acting as a safe house for a drug lord. After that, they need to cause some wreckage. Reviews make it seem »
- jpraup@gmail.com (thefilmstage.com)
DVD: DVD: The Phantom Carriage
11 October 2011 10:01 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »
Director Victor Sjöström (The Wind) may be most famous for playing an old man reflecting on his past in Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 staple Wild Strawberries, but his impact on cinema history—and notably on Bergman himself—goes much deeper, particularly behind the camera. In fact, there are stark parallels between Wild Strawberries and Sjöström’s powerful 1921 silent film The Phantom Carriage, which also features Sjöström the actor taking stock of a life that fills his character with something worse than regret. Both films are wrenching journies of the soul, taken by men »
Face to Face
6 September 2011 2:32 PM, PDT | GreenCine | See recent GreenCine news »
Reviewer: Jeffrey M Anderson
Rating (out of five): *** 1/2
If movies are the art form that comes closest to replicating our dreams -- sounds and images dancing before our eyes in the dark -- then, ironically, very few filmmakers have come anywhere near to capturing the elusive rhythm of dreams. David Lynch, Orson Welles, and Luis Bunuel have all succeeded from time to time, and especially Ingmar Bergman. A short nightmare sequence in Wild Strawberries (1957) is quite chilling, and the whole of Persona (1966) has the possibility to move in any direction, at any time. »
- weezy
Review: To Die Like a Man DVD
23 August 2011 1:06 PM, PDT | Disc Dish | See recent Disc Dish news »
Studio: Strand | Director: João Pedro Rodrigues | Cast: Fernando Santos, Alexander David , Ivo Barroso, Miguel Loureiro, Chanda Malatitch
Release Date: 8/23/2011 | Price: DVD $24.99
Bonuses: none
Specs: Nr | 134 min. | Foreign-language melodrama | 1.33:1 widescreen | Dolby Digital 5.1 | Portuguese with English subtitles
Ratings (out of 5): Movie | Audio | Video | Overall
Fernando Santos is Tonia in To Die Like a Man.
Portuguese film To Die Like a Man, which is set in Lisbon’s transgender subculture, is a melodrama with surreal overtones.
The movie follows Tonia (Fernando Santos), an iconic drag cabaret performer, who has had breast implants but held off final surgery to become a woman despite the wishes of her younger drug-addicted lover Rosario (Alexander David). Tonia is motivated by devout Catholicism and fear that the surgery will compromise her drag status. Then, a son Tonia fathered years earlier re-enters her life after going Awol from the army having killed another soldier.
To escape the »
- Laurence
Take Three: Max von Sydow
14 August 2011 10:51 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Craig (from Dark Eye Socket) here with another Take Three. Today: Max von Sydow
Take One: Hour of the Wolf (1968)
It goes without saying, of course, that a von Sydow Take Three wouldn’t feel right unless one of them was an Ingmar Bergman film. All three could’ve been, but the aim is to err on the side of variety whenever possible. They made 11 films together: The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, Shame and The Passion of Anna are all classics. But Hour of the Wolf, in which von Sydow plays a painter losing his grip on his sanity, doesn’t always get the high mention it deserves. It contains some of von Sydow’s best work in any film, for any director.
With his handsomely regal face, von Sydow boldly dominates the film. His sinisterly unhinged stillness and »
- Craig Bloomfield
How Observer critics spend their holidays
1 August 2011 8:39 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
From stage-door duties for the RSC, to the village famous for Straw Dogs, Observer writers reveal their idea of a perfect summer, past and present
● What are your tips for summer culture? Join the discussion
Kitty Empire
Pop critic
Let's be honest – the notion of summer as an extended golden period of rest and re-stimulation really now only applies to the young, the retired, or those in the teaching professions. The rest of us slog on, hoping to catch the odd festival (or maybe just gig in a park), marking time until camping in Cornwall or fly-drive to France, where finally luxuriating in the latest Alan Hollinghurst will come a distant second to stopping the youngest weeing in the hotel pool.
Once, though, I was artfully feckless too, making the rent by working as an usher for the Royal Shakespeare Company. "Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the »
- Kitty Empire, Mark Kermode, Rowan Moore, Philip French, Susannah Clapp, Laura Cumming, Luke Jennings, Fiona Maddocks, Rachel Cooke, Robert McCrum
A Beginners Guide to Ingmar Bergman
4 July 2011 1:07 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
To celebrate Film4’s Ingmar Bergman season starting tonight, Monday July 4th, I decided to use the director as the first subject in this new regular weekly series of beginners guides for WhatCulture!
Ingmar Bergman is one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Thematically and stylistically his work lives on through various filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Pedro Almodovar and most famously Woody Allen. He began his career in his home country of Sweden, where he worked as a script writer for a production company in the early 1940’s. The company asked him to watch a regular dose of American films and copy the Hollywood way of script writing but Bergman, a young man with ambitions far greater than those around him, grew frustrated as the movies he had to watch all seemed fake and superficial to him. The narrative structures too linear, the characters »
- Tom Ryan
A Beginners Guide to Ingmar Bergman
4 July 2011 1:07 AM, PDT | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »
To celebrate Film4’s Ingmar Bergman season starting tonight, Monday July 4th, I decided to use the director as the first subject in this new regular weekly series of beginners guides for WhatCulture!
Ingmar Bergman is one of the most influential directors in the history of cinema. Thematically and stylistically his work lives on through various filmmakers such as Francis Ford Coppola, Pedro Almodovar and most famously Woody Allen. He began his career in his home country of Sweden, where he worked as a script writer for a production company in the early 1940’s. The company asked him to watch a regular dose of American films and copy the Hollywood way of script writing but Bergman, a young man with ambitions far greater than those around him, grew frustrated as the movies he had to watch all seemed fake and superficial to him. The narrative structures too linear, the characters »
- Tom Ryan
This week's new film events
1 July 2011 4:07 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Studio Ghibli, London
If you've never stepped into the universes of Hayao Miyazaki and co, it's time you discovered what you're missing. These aren't just some of the best animated children's movies ever made; they'e some of the best movies full stop. The vibrant fantasy worlds, airborne adventures and noble junior heroes of Studio Ghibli's movies fascinate kids, but they're richer, more challenging and more psychedelically epic than most of what passes for grown-up fantasy. Avatar looks like Mr Men compared to, say, Princess Mononoke – which deals with similar themes with considerably more nuance. Having first championed them 10 years ago, the Barbican brings back Ghibli classics, from Laputa: Castle In The Sky and My Neighbour Totoro (the best one for young viewers), right up to previews of their latest, Arrietty, a version of The Borrowers.
Barbican Screen EC2, Wed to 31 Jul
Liverpool Arabic Fim Festival
Partly as a result of the Arab Spring, »
- Steve Rose
Victor Sjöström on TCM: The Scarlet Letter, Wild Strawberries
26 June 2011 7:19 PM, PDT | Alt Film Guide | See recent Alt Film Guide news »
Lillian Gish in Victor Sjöström's The Scarlet Letter 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 as relevant today as when it was first published in 1850. This evening, Turner Classic Movies is presenting MGM's 1926 film version of Hawthorne's story about sex, love, and the evils of religious fanaticism and social intolerance. It's a must. One of the best silent films I've ever seen, The Scarlet Letter has Prestige written all over it. However, unlike so many prestige motion pictures that turn out to be monumental bores, this Scarlet Letter offers on screen everything most prestige movies only offer in their marketing campaigns: sensitive direction by Swedish import Victor Sjöström (aka Victor Seastrom); flawless characterizations by Lillian Gish (as Hester Prynne) and another Swedish import, Lars Hanson; a concise adaptation »
- Andre Soares
Gunnar Fischer obituary
14 June 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Cinematographer who brought a sensuous style to 12 of Ingmar Bergman's films
The Swedish cinematographer Gunnar Fischer, who has died aged 100, could be said to have created the "look" of Ingmar Bergman's films, crystallised in three of the director's masterpieces: Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries (both 1957). From Port of Call (1948) to The Devil's Eye (1960), 12 films in all, Fischer was able to make visible Bergman's visions.
He was born in Ljungby, in southern Sweden. After spending three years in the Swedish navy as a chef, he attended the Royal Academy of Art in Stockholm, where he studied with the celebrated decorative artist Otte Sköld. He had an apprenticeship in cinematography at Svensk Filmindustri (Sf), the country's leading production company. His mentor there was the cinematographer Julius Jaenzon, who worked with the two great masters of Swedish silent cinema, Victor Sjöström and Mauritz Stiller. This »
- Ronald Bergan
Gunnar Fischer, 1910 - 2011
14 June 2011 11:30 AM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
Updated.
"Gunnar Fischer, a cinematographer whose use of stark lighting and sharp focus lent mood and psychological depth to a dozen of Ingmar Bergman's early films, including The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries, died on Saturday in Stockholm," reports William Grimes for the New York Times. "He was 100."
"He is widely recognized as the first cinematographer to capture with unparalleled beauty the cruelty, sensuality and selfishness that often collided in the same scene among Bergman's anguished characters." Adam Bernstein: "Fischer's great skill was in monochrome,' or black and white, film historian and Bergman scholar Peter Cowie told The Washington Post in 2008. 'He gave Bergman's films that unique expressionistic look, with their brilliant contrasts in every gradation of black and white.' He translated Bergman's themes of emotional isolation, sexual anguish and fear of death into unforgettable images: cold Scandinavian sunlight sparkling off water in Summer Interlude (1951) and »
Acclaimed Cinematographer Gunnar Fischer Passes Away At 100
11 June 2011 9:58 PM, PDT | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
Sad news tonight folks. Longtime Ingmar Bergman collaborator, Gunnar Fischer, has passed away earlier today at the ripe old age of 100. I just saw the Masters Of Cinema twitter feed posting a link to this Swedish web site (HD.se), announcing that he had died earlier today in Sweden.
From the translated story:
Gunnar Fischer out of time
The photographer and film director Gunnar Fischer died on Saturday, 100 years old.
Stockholm. He worked closely with Ingmar Bergman in the 50′s in classic films such as Summer with Monika, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and The Magician.
- He passed away in the afternoon. This fall, he would have turned 101 years, says his son and cinematographer Jens Fischer said.
Gunnar Fischer was employed by the Swedish Film Industry 1935-1970 and the 1970-75 Svt.
Fischer‘s cinematography is well represented in the Criterion Collection. You can find him working with Bergman early »
- Ryan Gallagher
How Many of Woody Allen's Favorite Films Have You Seen?
7 June 2011 9:51 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »
I stumbled upon a list of 41 of Woody Allen's favorite films over at This Recording, which were actually pulled from Allen's 2007 biography written by Eric Lax titled "Conversations with Woody Allen: His Films, the Movies, and Moviemaking" which you can buy from Amazon for $16.47.
Allen comments on the lists, of which he breaks up into different categories, saying, "My tastes seem to me unremarkable except in the area of talking plot comedies where I seem to have little tolerance for anything and certainly not my own films."
Unfortunately, he's pretty much right as I would bet most avid movie watchers will have seen the majority of the films he lists and then when he does get to talking plot comedies he waves a white flag in fear of looking foolish saying, "[My] taste is eccentric and there are any number of comedies I love that would make me seem foolish or should I say, »
- Brad Brevet
A Journey Through the Eclipse Series: Ingmar Bergman’s Port of Call
30 May 2011 10:07 AM, PDT | CriterionCast | See recent CriterionCast news »
As most readers of this site have probably heard by now, the late and great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman unexpectedly stirred up chatter on the web when doubts were cast on the circumstances of his birth. Recently released DNA tests apparently show that he was given birth by Hedvig Sjöberg, a different woman than the mother who raised him, Karin Bergman, about whom her son Ingmar has written extensively and who served as a major source of inspiration for the films he made over the course of a lifetime. This article is the most extensive (and presumably fact-based) summary of the controversy, and my purpose here is not to engage in any extended speculation or gossip about what the allegations mean or how it changes our assessment of Bergman’s work.
But given the significance of Bergman’s childhood and family life as it directly informed some of his most important films, »
- David Blakeslee
Clip joint: tearjerkers
18 May 2011 11:32 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Grab yourself a hankie as we salute a selection of movies guaranteed to reduce you to emotional rubble
It doesn't take much for me to blub and films, although predominantly fictional, are a common trigger for these very real tears. Like most film fans, I find certain movies tug at my heartstrings harder than any, er, tug of war, no matter how many times I watch them. So, super-soft tissues at the ready for my top five tearjerkers – my first, my last, my every viewing …
1) Ghost
If it's not bad enough that Sam Wheat (Patrick Swayze) only replies "ditto" when his girlfriend Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) says "I love you", he's murdered before he can even utter the L-word. So the final scene, when the adorable couple are briefly reunited and Sam finally tells her he's always loved her before being rushed to heaven – and yes, accompanied by the Unchained »
- Sophie Robehmed
Distant Relatives: The Toy Story Trilogy and The Films of Ingmar Bergman
14 April 2011 10:43 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »
Robert here, closing out the first season of my series Distant Relatives, (where we look at two films, (one classic, one modern) related through theme and ask what their similarities/differences can tell us about the evolution of cinema) with the second part of this two part special.
Last week in Part One we discussed how the great sorrow or rejection by God or a loved one in Bergman’s universe is equvalent to rejection by the child owners (god/loved one amalgams that they are) of the Toy Story films. And when those owners have put their childish things aside, what do the toys do? Where do they find meaning in their lives? Now... Part Two.
Hooray, you're old!
In Ingmar Bergman’s film Wild Strawberries, Professor Isak Borg is being recognized with an honorary degree. As he approaches this honor he is forced to look back on his »
- Robert
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