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...emergence to compare with Napoleon's journey out of Elban exile to try to regain France. Nor was it precisely the great soap opera of redemption that occurred in the mid-'50s when the American people decided that Ingrid Bergman, disgraced adulteress, might be restored to favor. But somewhere in the historic procession from the majestic to the trivial, one might plausibly place Richard Nixon's trip to Hyden, Ky., over the Fourth of July weekend...
...People can't understand that you can study filmmakers like Welles, John Ford, Renoir and Bergman the way you can study Tolstoy, Whitman and Shakespeare. Students have a difficult time accepting film as anything more than entertainment or communication. Imagine if a professor in the Music department had to spend a semester convincing students that there is a difference between popular music and music...
...simply wanes. Nonetheless, "Casablanca" (1942) remains one of the best films to emerge from Hollywood in the age of talkies. This film is a stellar example (oops) of great acting rescuing an otherwise mawkish plot. Bogie crystallizes his persona in "Casablanca" as Rick, the disillusioned, cynical tavern-keeper. Ingrid Bergman was never more beautiful, and Claude Rains, the aforementioned Lorre, and Dooley Wilson head a marvelous cast. Really great films can be rated by how many times one can sit through them and truly enjoy the experience. Although "Casablanca" has become somewhat overworked as everybody's "favorite," it's still...
This description of the film's story plays it false, makes it seem somehow a schematic representation of a textbook family, when in fact the people of Paradise are carefully particularized. The film is the first time that Gunnel Lindblom, an actress in several Ingmar Bergman movies, has directed (Bergman has the producer's credit). Her touch is usually delicate. Even the unhappy ending is understated, though there is a hint of further tragedy to come. There will be more to this family's life, and not all, of it a misery, before we write finis either...
Night Music is an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's classic comedy about mismatched lovers, Smiles of a Summer Night. Perhaps to avoid potentially odious comparisons, Prince has switched the setting from Sweden to turn-of-the-century Vienna, but he might as well have shot the film in a Burbank TV studio. A wizard of stagecraft, he seems to freeze behind the camera. Since the photography is usually static and the editing monotonous, the lyrical flow of the original production evaporates completely. The movie's arty opening and closing scenes, which suggest that we are watching a play...