Word: bergmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your hiding place isn't watertight," observes a character in Ingmar Bergman's 1965 film Persona. "Life trickles in from the outside and you are forced to react." Last week the Swedish director found life flooding...
...midst of his rehearsals for a new stage production, Stockholm police collared the master. Whisked off to the police tax division, Bergman was grilled on suspicion that he had failed to report $119,000 as income from his former Swiss-based company. "What happened is painful and humiliating," protested Bergman, 57, insisting that he had no knowledge of any tax problems: "I leave that up to my lawyer...
...given point. One day when he was 15, an old man approached Giancarlo on a Naples street. He was a bookseller, a total stranger, and he told the boy about a group of students who had formed an amateur theater. "He was like a mysterious phantom messenger from a Bergman movie," Giannini says. "I'd never seen the old man before. I have not seen him since." That night, Giannini went to the theater, eventually joined the company by giving an audition reading from Hamlet...
...AMERICAN film world centered in New York has seized upon a new focus: Italian director Lina Wertmuller. No other recent director has achieved such monumental stature so immediately and so unanimously, with the possible exception of Robert Altman. Critics compare Wertmuller without hesitation to Bergman, Fellini, and Antonioni; she is besieged by interviewers; her films are mobbed...
...longer the same young girl who shared a sleeping bag with Gary Cooper in For Whom the Bell Tolls back in 1943. "I've reached an age where I am starting a new career as a character actress," says Ingrid Bergman, now at work on her 43rd film. The movie, which will be titled A Matter of Time in English-speaking countries and Nina elsewhere, stars Bergman as an aged contessa and Liza Minnelli as a young hotel chambermaid enthralled by the older woman's reminiscences. Bergman, who still needs nearly an hour-long makeup job to affect...