Word: bergmanic
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...were wondering, the marriage of Boris and Melody is meant as a demonstration that opposites may attract, but they don't last. Taking a cue from Smiles of a Summer Night, one of Allen's favorite Ingmar Bergman films, Whatever Works liberates its characters from their conventional domestic alliances and finds new lovers: like with like, youth with youth, man with surprisingly congenial woman...
...eldest son of character actor John Carradine, whose itinerant career he replicated, David won a Theatre World Award on Broadway as an Inca sovereign in 1965's The Royal Hunt of the Sun. In his Kung Fu decade, he starred for Martin Scorsese (Boxcar Bertha) and Ingmar Bergman (The Serpent's Egg), drove killer cars in Death Race 2000 and Cannonball and folded his towering frame into the pint-size legend of Woody Guthrie in Bound for Glory--gutsy, exemplary films...
Meanwhile, London is playing host to a Sondheim at the Garrick Theatre in the West End, where director Trevor Nunn is teasing out the nuances in A Little Night Music, Sondheim's 1973 adaptation of the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night. Often performed as a light soufflé of a show, Nunn has turned the musical, which runs until July 25, into a Chekhovian meditation on desire and death. (See pictures of London...
...then in super-slo-mo and finally in psychedelic greens and pinks. The last two minutes are extraordinary for a porn film: one extended closeup of the faces of a man and woman as they kiss (and have sex). It was as if the Mitchells understood Ingmar Bergman's dictum that "Film begins with the human face...
...West End musical version of High Society, she was perennial debutante Tracy Lord, played in movies by Katharine Hepburn and Grace Kelly. She made her Broadway debut in 1993 as Eugene O'Neill's Anna Christie, a part Greta Garbo made famous on film and which Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullmann had performed on stage...