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...Harvard audiences, his seamless juxtapositions of the random places on campus where he was allowed to shoot may feel disorienting, but in a fun way. The cinematography of Sven Nykvist (of Ingmar Bergman fame) is competent, but it has none of the passion of his most recent work, the lyrical "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and the truly horrible (but well-filmed) "Sleepless in Seattle...
...light-hearted comic musical, by time-honored tradition, is understood to end happily no matter what happens in the first four acts. No one dies, only the villains end up with egg on their face, and just about everyone finds a love to run off with. Although the Bergman film on which the musical is based, "Smiles of a Summer Night," explores the darker side of romance, Sondheim's script and score revert to a more optimistic vision. HRDC's Night Music loses track of the inevitable happy ending and plays with conflicts as if they may never be resolved...
...Danish director, lauded by Ingmar Bergman and much of the international community, won't win any prizes for his screenplay and directions of "The House of the Spirits," In August's cinematic constructed relationships become a series of unrelated minidramas...
...didn't buy it. I rented movies of past generations and watched them in the spirit of bemused nostalgia touted byNew Yark's critic. I decided --if truth be told, I decided this long ago--that Winona Ryder lacks the acting range of Ingrid Bergman or Katherine Hepburn, and it upset me that a movie which purported to confront "reality" in some shape or form (even ironically,especially ironically would make a wide-eyed waif its heroine with seemingly no other justification. Then I castigated myself for maybe being jealous of her and the fact that my movie-going companion...
...anyone uncaquainted with Bergman's work, "Smiles of a Summer Night" and, "The Seventh Seal" make excellent introductions. For those already familiar with Bergmar, the retrospective at the Harvard Film Arc provides an opportunity to rediscer Bergman's greatness. The retrospective continues with "Wild Strawberris," Persona," "Cries and Whispers" and "Fanny and Alexander...