Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MOST HOPEFUL SIGN: The cinematography prize for Sven Nykvist, Ingmar Bergman's great cameraman. Hollywood can occasionally recognize production merit that is not ingrown...
...passenger list that may cause Lumet the most trouble. John Gielgud, Ingrid Bergman, Vanessa Redgrave, Sean Connery, Wendy Hiller, Richard Widmark, Michael York, Jacqueline Bisset, Lauren Bacall and Anthony Perkins are among those embroiled in the huggermugger aboard a train snowbound in the Alps. Lumet has planned the whole operation with military precision and looks forward to eight weeks of planting clues and feeding egos. Says he: "It's going to be done with gaiety and humor -and the very best fakery...
...Joyce," said George Bluestone in Novels Into Films, "would seem as absurd on film as Chaplin would in print." Chaplin is probably not the most apt comparison to Joyce--Fellini or Bergman are more appropriate. One would be hard put to translate 8 1/2 or Persona into print and still maintain any semblance of the original. Yet, in 1967 Joseph Strick and Fred Haines courted disaster by writing a screen adaptation for James Joyce's Ulysses. The absurdity of the undertaking provides a perfect example of the irreconcilable differences between the two media. Ulysses, published in 1922, was hailed...
...because I'm not a dilettante. Theater has been my life for the last 20, oh, 28 years. It makes me suddenly realize how very old I am. It was so funny the other evening with some of the freshmen. They were watching Casablanca on television and Ingrid Bergman came on. And most of them didn't seem to have ever heard of her and one of them said 'Oh, Ingrid Bergman. Oh, my father was in love with her.' And I said 'oh my God.' That makes me feel very old indeed...
...Bergman's Cries and Whispers 3:15 p.m., 6:35, 9:55; A Man and a Woman...