Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SOMETIMES AT THE Loeb Ex you get the feeling that all the pretense and profundity is gathering like rainclouds and that if one person in the audience giggled, the entire place, actors and all, would explode in laughter. A friend of mine who hates Ingmar Bergman says the same thing would be true of his films if the audience couldn't blame the stiffness of the dialogue on the subtitles. So a stage production of Persona, Bergman's 1966 film about the attempt of one woman, Elisabeth, to impose her identity upon another, Alma, starts out with two strikes against...
...Ingmar Bergman's Persona is generally accounted a masterpiece of a movie, but since it evidently relies pretty thoroughly on purely cinematic techniques--it's about two women, one a famous actress who's become deaf and mute, who look very much alike--it's hard to imagine how Sarah Stearns adapted it for the stage. Evidently she has, though. Opens tonight through Saturday, February 23, at 7:30 p.m. at the Loeb...
HILLES LIBRARY Bergman's Shame, Jan. 17 at 7:30, Roy Anderson's A Swedish Love Story, Jan. 21 at 7:30, Lasse Forsberg's The Yankee, Jan. 20 at 9:45, $1 per film...
Salvador Dali and Luis Bunuel's surrealistic Un Chien Andalou is at Kirkland House along with some other shorts, while Bergman's Shame--where the great director takes on death and war with his usual perception--heads a list of swedish films at Hilles. I.F. Stone's Weekly is being held over at the Welles, and it's reportedly the best documentary of the year, about a very admirable journalist...
...Virgin Spring. 1960. Academy Award-winning Bergman film centers of violent rape-murder in medieval Sweet Fine acting by Max von Sydow...