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FANNY AND ALEXANDER Directed and Written by Ingmar Bergman...
...over a quiet Swedish town, in the winter of 1907, and it is the place where ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) and his younger sister Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) and their parents and grandmother, the Ekdahls, reside. But with a leap of film fancy it becomes the house that Bergman built: an edifice constructed of 40 films in nearly 40 years, and filled with ghosts and demons, strong women and tortured men, knights playing chess with Death, and human souls wrestling themselves to a fine stalemate. In this house the film maker, a great artist with the imagination...
...Fanny and Alexander, Bergman means to offer a summing up of all his films, characters and moods. The first part of this 3-hr. 17-min. entertainment (reduced from a five-hour series made for Swedish television) is a family idyl. Oscar Ekdahl (Allan Edwall) is impresario of the local theater, and life at home is a succession of agreeable rituals: caroling, speechifying, sumptuous meals, flirtatious sex. The house is the perfect home for Alexander, whose favorite toy is a "magic lantern," a primitive movie camera. He can prowl through the unoccupied rooms poking into old mysteries, scouting loca tions...
Black artists have in the past often rejected America. Some, like novelist Richard Wright, turned to communism others emigrated. Even today, many American Black artists look to Europe for inspiration and Hudlin says. Black films in particular owe much to Ingmar Bergman and other European filmmakers Hudlin makes Black films that are in tune with the American tradition. His favorite directors are Howard, Hawks and John Ford. In his own work, he plans to explore what he calls "Afro Americana "that is, the part of American culture which is Black...
Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her to be his "woman friend" because, as Go-Between Gary Grant suggested, she was a "tested product...