Word: bergmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gaslight, Ingrid Bergman in George Cukor's version of an eerie tale. Kirkland House Dining Hall, 8, 10, Wed. (22 March...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? with Liz Taylor before she turned 40. With The Dove, a short parody of Bergman that may spoil Wild Strawberries forever, Orson Welles, 4, 7, 9:45, Sun. through Tues...
...camera has practically created a genre as the recording angel of disintegrating minds-the corroborating witness to the psychopathology of everyday life. Carnal Knowledge, Husbands, Straw Dogs all in different ways perform the basic ritual of the '70s film. Once an Ingmar Bergman specialty, the perfectly average man going a bit mad is now a stock character, taken for granted. Similarly, one no longer bothers to speak of the theater of the absurd as if it were an exotic fringe entity. The achievement of the Madness Revolution has been to make Beckett, Ionesco and Genet seem oldfashioned...
...wasteland into the psychic boundary between the conscious and sub-conscious. Picasso's surrealism, captured also in the implicit and explicit imagery of the theme of the artist and his studio, or in his "Girl before a Mirror", raised the question of identity through images now hauntingly familiar from Bergman's Persona; the struggles of the psyche distorting the very appearance of a person's face...
Shoot the Piano Player, Francois Truffaut's two-toned lament for a thin-skinned ivory-tickler. With Smiles of a Summer Night, a period comedy of lost aspirations--one of Bergman's best. Through March 2. The 400 Blows, the first Truffaut, a sensitive study of a tough youth's progress. 2:30, 6:05, 9:40, with Rules of the Game, beginning March...