Word: bergman
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dead end that is a dead end for this prolific, personal film maker. Stardust Memories has much to please the eye and ear. Cinematographer Gordon Willis and Production Designer Mel Bourne have created an austere, bleached environment that gives Allen's film a look as distinctive as a Bergman or Fellini film-or, rather, a Bergman and a Fellini film. And there are enough quotable gags to fill a movie review, if not a weekend seminar at a resort hotel. But there is also a sense of aridity, of desperation...
What a vision awaited visitors to the Royal Palace in Caserta, Italy. Traipsing through the gardens with Actress Isabella Rossellini, daughter of Ingrid Bergman and Director Roberto Rossellini, was a familiar white-robed figure with the distinctive bearing of Pope John Paul II. Young girls genuflected as the Pontiff passed. A sightseeing nun fainted dead away. After all, His Holiness was at that moment supposed to be traveling in Africa 3,000 miles away. A papal miracle? No, a cinematic satire, Il Papocchio (rough translation: Papal Mess). The Italian film features Actor Manfred Freiberger, a look-alike for the Polish...
...much of the trip, though, Honeysuckle Rose provides good, earthy company. And when Nelson and Cannon team to sing a sexy country duet, the romantic charge is as strong as any pairing since Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman-or at least since Kermit and Miss Piggy...
...that headline writers identify him by his initials alone: P.G. He has a small circle of close friends: professors, psychiatrists and other intellectuals; he relishes their barbs at business because they challenge him to "see the other side." He is married to a social worker, who looks like a Bergman beauty. He has written three books about society, industry, the future. He is a world-class sailor and plays a folk guitar. At 34, he became president of Sweden's largest insurance company. At 36, he rose to president of Scandinavia's biggest industrial combine, Volvo...
Director-Writer Robert Benton and his cast have made their own Scenes from a Marriage-a domestic drama that starts at a wrenching pitch and builds and builds to the threshold of pain. Yet the film is not imitation Bergman; it is, above all, peculiarly American. Adapting a popular novel by Avery Corman, Benton tells an unpretentious story that might well have served such vintage Hollywood tearjerkers as George Stevens' Penny Serenade and King Vidor's Stella Dallas...