Critical Essay by Gavin Millar
You must first accept that Ingmar Bergman's characters are involved, not just in moments of crisis, but in lives of the deepest crisis and pain, or the crushing ...
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Critical Essay by Gilberto Perez
The close-up is Ingmar Bergman's stock in trade. No other filmmaker has so relentlessly dwelt on the human face in the attempt to lay bare the soul behind it. ...
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The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s t...
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The movies of John Cassavetes are for and by actors—at their worst, they’re about actors, too. All those grainy close-ups that the director insisted on may be truthful, but it’s t...
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Thanks to a writing and directing career that spanned six decades—and produced more than 60 films in international theaters and on Swedish television—the name Ingmar Bergman has become ...
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Critical Essay by Gavin Millar
Cassavetes, Volatile Contrarian, Mulish Master of Improvisation
