Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...work so far -the most deliberate and contained. Much of the movie's power comes from images that carry a kind of glancing, indefinable threat and remain in some dark corner of the imagination. They are immediate but not quite real, like Pinter's language or a Bergman scene...
...echo of quick cuts which shatters the silence of the forest when Karl-Oscar's younger brother Robert shoots what he believes is an Indian warrior. In his control of natural images, his imagination and sense of the complex relations of individuals to social processes, Troell comes closer to Bergman than any other current director. He edges near the best Faulkner, imaginatively recreating a history which is truer and more substantial than the history of dates and figures, a history with fictional embellishments that deepen our understanding...
Plus a selection of outstanding but more frequently shown, films around town: Bergman's psychological masterpiece, Person. High Noon, possibly the finest Western ever made. Hitchcock's intriguing Dial M for Murder. The famous Betty Boop cartoons. Bogdanovich's Paper Moon, and Woody Allen hilarious Bananas...
Wild Strawberries. 1958. Victor Seastrom is superb as an old man reliving his life through flashbacks in this allegorical Bergman classic...
FRIDAY: The Seventh Seal. 1957. Disturbing and eerily brilliant study of death and religion, starring Max von Sydow, directed by Ingmar Bergman...