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...been willing to talk about his films and his politics: Makavejev has been interviewed frequently in this country, where he has spent a large part of his time since 1968. As one of five directors of the year, he was interviewed in the International Film Guide 1973, along with Bergman and Bresson. But he has never, until now, spoken candidly to journalists about himself and his personal philosophy...
...True Love, as only the first crooner could croon, to not-yet-royal Grace Kelly. Unlike many stars, Crosby surrounded himself with other big talents. He worked with Fred Astaire in Holiday Inn (in which he sang White Christmas), with Ethel Barrymore in Just for You and with Ingrid Bergman in Bells of St. Mary...
...gives a towering performance. In intensity, innate authority and mordant humor, this is acting in the thermodynamic range. Bibi Andersson is pallid by comparison, a picture-postcard beauty who recites her lines without the intent to lacerate-rather strange considering her snake-fanged delivery as a wife in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage. Eileen Atkins is in Von Sydow's league. She encases herself in a palpable shield of silence and then hurls her lines like javelins dead on the mark...
Voyage to Italy. Roberto Rosselini departs from the more descriptive neorealism of his other classics to produce a troubling psychological portrait of a British couple whose marriage goes to pieces during a vacation trip to Naples. (It is more likely that the break-up between Ingrid Bergman and George Sanders is largely based on Rosselini's own ll-fated romance with Bergman.) French director Jean-Luc Godard said about it, "there are five or six films in the history of the cinema which one wants to review simply by saying 'It is the most beautiful of film,' why say more...
Cries and Whispers. By direct contrast with the starkness of his Persona-period films, this is easily the most visually lush Bergman movie I have seen. But the rich colors and textures of the large Victorian house that serve as the setting of the drama only accent all the more disturbing. Bergman's story of the psychological dynamics between a woman dying of cancer and the two sisters that look after her in her final weeks. The flashback sequences in this film are some of the most cruel and haunting that Bergman has ever realized...