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Seminal Souls - Antonioni and Bergman in the 21st century

Seminal Souls - Antonioni and Bergman in the 21st century

A look at the significance of Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman

26 Apr 2012

Dying within twenty four hours of each other, the demise of two great filmmakers in 2007 was clearly a loss, but though Ingmar Bergman came out of retirement to make Saraband in 2002, and Antonioni made one feature, Beyond the Clouds (and a later short…

The Best Intentions

The Best Intentions

(3 stars)28 May 2010

(12) 181min (Park Circus) The Best Intentions has pedigree galore. Based on a memoir of his parent’s unhappy marriage, it’s scripted by Ingmar Bergman and directed by feted Danish filmmaker Bille August (Pelle the Conqueror, The House of the…

Bergman: The Faith Trilogy

(4 stars)28 Feb 2008

DRAMA (15) 260min (Tartan DVD retail) As with much of Ingmar Bergman’s work this trilogy of early 60s films on the issue of faith are really chamber pieces, where a sense of claustrophobia weighs heavily on the characters’ lives. Whether that’s the…

Bergman legacy celebrated in Sweden

4 Sep 2007

The life and work of director Ingmar Bergman was celebrated in a ceremony at Stockholm’s Royal Dramatic Theatre yesterday. Sweden’s film stars, politicians and members of the royal family gathered to remember the director, whose works influenced a…

The Seventh Seal (Det Sjunde Inseglet)

(4 stars)16 Jul 2007

NEW PRINT/REISSUE THE SEVENTH SEAL (DET SJUNDE INSEGLET) (PG) 92min Swedish film and theatre director Ingmar Bergman’s hugely iconic and sustained 1957 meditation on the inevitability of death and suffering in the Middle Ages makes a…

Ingmar Bergman Collection - DVD review

The Ingmar Bergman Collection

(4 stars)27 Nov 2006

BOX SET For a filmmaker who’s recently denounced Godard as a ‘desperate’ bore, Welles as a ‘phoney’ and Antonioni as someone who never learned his craft, Bergman wouldn’t make much of a critic. But how does he compete with the people he condemns?

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