Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winter Light. Sweden's cinematic poltergeist, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, once more haunts the dark and chilly corridors where Man loses God, and once more the soul in torment seems to be his own. Bergman is the son of an austere Evangelical Lutheran parson who molded the boy with icy constraint and puritanical tyranny, and of a mother who was remote from both son and husband. To Bergman his parents were "sealed in iron caskets." This boyhood gave him the permeating motifs for his work: "God and the Devil, Life and Death, the drama of the couple...
...rnstrand) serves Communion as if he were an actor in a play near the end of a long run-withdrawn, saying the words without compassion. The contrast between this remoteness and the fervor on the faces of the communicants as they receive the Host and the Cup states Bergman's theme: a vain search for faith down ways that are closed. Besought, after the service, to counsel a fisherman (Max von Sydow) sick with world-sadness because "the Chinese now have an atom bomb," the pastor starts a confident trust-in-God homily that turns by stages into...
Night Is My Future. In 1947, when he made this burningly romantic little picture, Ingmar Bergman was already telling one of his simple tales of lovers, and he told it with...
...never read Ulysses," groans Fellini. "I've never seen Last Year at Marienbad, I don't know anything about Proust, and I have only seen one film by Bergman." His director-hero, he explains, is just a man who finally accepts his own confusion and doubts and sees "that this chaos is the real force out of which his creativity comes...
...odds. People in one southern town nearly beat up the theater manager because they found "8½" so frustratingly incomprehensible. But so-called intellectual reviewers began chiseling out deathless lines of praise ("chief work of a magician of genius") and tracing the influences on Fellini of Resnais and Bergman, Proust and Joyce...