Bergman, Ingmar (1918—)
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman's name is virtually synonymous with the sort of intellectual European films that most critics love to praise—but that many ...
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The works of Swedish film and stage director Ingmar Bergman (born 1918) are marked by intellectuality, metaphysical speculation, and symbolic and allegorical content.Ingmar Bergman was born on July 14...
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Ingmar Bergman, Swedish author and movie and theater director, is one of the foremost contributors to postwar European cinema and a leading stage interpreter of such playwrights as William Shakespeare...
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Critical Essay by Eric Rohmer
There is certainly naivete in [the allegory used in The Seventh Seal], but there is some naivete in every fable. It is the naivete proper to the great periods of art...
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Critical Essay by Birgitta Steene
[There are writers] whose works seem to lend themselves to a thematic interpretation; writers who appear as "hedgehogs" in the literary world, i.e., re...
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Critical Essay by Tom Milne
The easiest way out of dealing with an embarassing white elephant like Bergman's Now About These Women … is to follow everybody else in sweeping it away unde...
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Critical Essay by Richard Schickel
Ingmar Bergman likes to speak of himself as a magician. The film maker, he notes, bases his art on the use of a machine that exploits a weakness in human vision in ...
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Critical Essay by Robin Wood
Prison is a turgid, tedious film finally invalidated by the tendency to inflate a personal neurosis into a Vision of Life. Its explicit thesis is that life on earth is al...
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Critical Essay by Arthur Gibson
Three persistent and intensifying impressions assail me as I contemplate the consistent whole that is the film series [consisting of seven films: The Seventh Seal, Wil...
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Critical Essay by Eugene Archer
Bergman's essential theme, as expressed in his films, is man's search for knowledge in a hostile universe. The ultimate answer is that there is no answer...
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Critical Essay by Birgitta Steene
To a great extent Bergman's films from the fifties—The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, The Magician, Smiles of a Summer Night, The Virgin Springȁ...
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Critical Essay by Vernon Young
It must never be overlooked that Bergman is as persistent a showman as he is a moralist. He is of the theatre, and while I should not want to declare that the one talen...
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Critical Essay by Art Carduner
Living in the same world with Ingmar Bergman is like living in one of those cities which has a perpetual view of majestic snow-capped mountain peaks. Nobody spends his ...
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Critical Essay by Francois Truffaut
For me, the lesson that Bergman gives us hinges on three points: liberation of dialogue, a radical cleansing of image, and absolute primacy granted to the human fa...
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Critical Essay by Joan Mellen
Bergman employs [women] as spokeswomen to express his personal world-view—a world-view basically defined by the traumatic absence and silence of God, who has cold...
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Critical Essay by Peter Harcourt
More than any other film artist, Bergman's work is rooted in the past. His early films grew out of the culture that surrounded them and they were invariably co...
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Critical Essay by Arlene Croce
While Bergman is the darling of the sophisticates, he is nonetheless a cinematic artist of unusual accomplishment, whose works demand a proportionately serious consider...
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Critical Essay by Diane M. Borden
For Bergman, the human face is a register, a kind of antenna that signals and communicates the life of the consciousness. That "life" is a constant exi...
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Critical Essay by Ronald S. Librach
The largest metaphor in The Serpent's Egg is the metaphor of the narrative film itself as a dream—the complete inversion of two levels of "rea...
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Critical Essay by Caroline Blackwood
Cecil B. de Mille gave the public "Religion and Sex"; Ingmar Bergman has now simply come up with a more esoteric formula, the Supernatural and Sex, ...
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Critical Essay by JÖrn Donner
As an artist in film [Bergman] interprets and transfers his private dreams and imaginings to the celluloid. As an artist he is firmly anchored in a Swedish and Eu...
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A few dozen family and friends of Ingmar Bergman attended his funeral Saturday on the small Swedish island where he spent his final years _ a low-key affair in keeping with the legendary filmmaker'...
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Ingmar Bergman wanted his funeral to be a low-key, private affair and his family, friends and neighbors are doing their utmost to keep it that way.Bergman died last week at age 89. Since then, his ...
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Stockholm (dpa) - As preparations were underway Monday for a
tribute by actors and others who collaborated with Ingmar Bergman,
the Swedish government announced plans to hel...
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Stockholm (dpa) - Relatives of legendary Swedish film-maker Ingmar
Bergman were Monday still shrouding all details of his burial in
secrecy more than a week after his death....
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Stockholm (dpa)- Legendary Swedish film-maker Ingmar Bergman was
buried Saturday in a cemetery on the tiny Baltic Sea island of Faro
on Sweden's eastern coast.
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Stockholm (dpa) - On the very day a festival that honours Swedish
director Ingmar Bergman opened, it was announced in Sweden Tuesday
that his archives have been inscribed in...
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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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Stockholm (dpa) - Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, who has died
at the age of 89, was one of the 20th century's most renowned,
influential and experimental film directors w...
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If anyone had ever told me back in 1944 that a 26-year-old Swedish screenwriter named Ingmar Bergman, who had just written his first screenplay (for Alf Sjoberg's Hets- Torment in the U.S. and Fren...
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Bergman, Ingmar (1918—)
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Critical Essay by Eric Rohmer
Film director Ingmar Bergman is buried
