Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hell alone, or hell together" is the question Swedish movie director Ingmar Bergman poses in his films, critic John Simon '50 told a capacity audience in Boylston Auditorium last night...
SATURDAY: Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) Early and influential Bergman...
Based on Ingmar Bergman's 1956 sex comedy Smiles of a Summer Night, imbued with a kind of mocha fantasy more typical of France's Jean Anouilh, Night Music is a masquelike affair, tailor-made to fit Sondheim's flair for depicting confused people experiencing ambivalent thoughts and feelings. Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm flaunts his amours openly in front of his wife, but at the barest hint that she may be following suit, he sputters...
WEDNESDAY: Casablanca. (1943) Play it again, Sam, and we'll never tire of it. Bogart, Bergman, Rains, Heinreid, Lorre, Greenstreet...
Hugh Wheeler's book was inspired and adapted from Ingmar Bergman's 1956 Smiles of a Summer Night, a kind of Gallic sex comedy set in turn-of-the-century Sweden. The characters are subliminal staples of theatrical lore, more familiar as types than sharply etched as individuals. The hero (Len Cariou) is a prosperous lawyer somewhat baffled and buffeted by middle age. Widowed, he has attempted to regain his lost youth by marrying a child bride (Victoria Mallory) who, after eleven months, is still skittishly virginal. Completing the household is Cariou's son (Mark Lambert...