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directed by Ingmar Bergman...
directed by Ingmar Bergman...
...seems particularly fitting that Ingmar Bergman should have been born on July 14, for the Swedish director has always been something of a revolutionary. While Sweden's film industry had made a name for itself during the years of silent movies, producing actors like Greta Garbo and directors like Victor Sjostrom, it became practically unknown after the advent of sound. This was the state of affairs until Bergman single-handedly put Swedish film on the map again in the 1950s. Until his retirement in 1983, Bergman produced a corpus of films which marked him as one of the most important...
...order to celebrate Bergman's seventy fifth birthday last year, the Swedish Film Institute organized a retrospective of Bergman's work, entitled "Bergman at 75 Women, Dreams and Demons." The retrospective, accompanied by a photo exhibition opens at the Harvard film Archive on March 25, and provides an excellent opportunity to view Bergman's whole oeuvre, presented in chronological sequence...
...Bergman's films are highly philosophical and characterized by metaphysical anguish and despair over mankind's search for meaning. Detractors dubbed Bergman the "Master of Angst," seeing him as a purveyor of the stereotypical Nordic anxiety which Norwegian painter Edward Munch punchily captured in "The Scream," recently stolen by angst-ridden environmentalists...