Word: bergman
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...skewer for his New York theater column, he's clearly much happier commenting on current film--which he does, at greater length, and for far less pay, in the pages of The New Leader. For his Harvard audience, Simon read a chapter from his forthcoming book on Ingmar Bergman--the director whom Simon reveres as the greatest in film history...
...braggadocio). Strike activities and riot scares had daunted all but the most dyed-in-the-silk aesthetes amongst undergrads. Professors and their wives dominated the thirty present, along with scattered unafilliated ladies. But Smiles of the Summer Night--Simon's subject for the day--is the most polite of Bergman's films...
Somewhat in the manner of royalty, Ingrid Bergman deigns to make an infrequent city-to-city tour before her oohing and aahing subjects. Lovely to look at, graciously regal in bearing, exotically foreign in accent, she does not remotely intend for any playwright to steal the spotlight. An assiduous search through a trunkful of lesser Shaw has provided the perfect vehicle in Captain...
...plays. Shaw simply used women tactically in order to make fun of the ideas, authority, and personalities of men with whom he happened to disagree. He conferred on women the mask of reason, but behind that cover lay the clever, arrogant, self-absorbed mind of G.B.S. Lady Cicely Waynflete (Bergman) is one of Shaw's perennial Little Miss Super-Fix-Its. She just happens to be among the brigands and bedouins of North Africa rather than in the drawing rooms of Mayfair or on the battlements of Orleans...
When he views films himself, Resnais claims, he forgets about being a director. "I'm a movie buff. I like films where I can feel the style of a director come through." He lists the directors he enjoys: Renoir, Fellini, Bergman, Truffaut, Bunuel . . . on and on, a whole canon of modern film...