Word: bergmans
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...than painting. It entrances because it moves. Structure spectators that we are, cushioned and slouching in adjustable seats, row upon regimented row, the directors have to creep on shoeless feet. Camouflaged by pathos, bathos, and gales of laughter, their goal is our back-bone. Else they impale themselves, as Bergman often does, on our pointy little heads...
...Bergman. Three weeks of Bergman at the Orson Welles. If you're new in town, go to one, if not to view the Cambridge aficionados of the great director, at least to visit one of the great treats of living here, the Welles itself. Get existential...
...final measures could be extended into a song. "Sure," he replied. "Have it by 4," purred La Barbra. "I wrote like mad," Goldenberg recalls. "When she called, I hummed her the tune. She liked it, and the next day we got the word writers, Marilyn and Alan Bergman, to fit it out with a lyric." They booked an orchestra, and within a few weeks If I Close My Eyes, the movie's single, was ready for release...
...competitor, Mel Brooks, Allen aims his custard pies up, not down. If his humor is merciless, it is not unkind; Boris' angry monologues with God are closer to Fiddler on the Roof than to comic on the make. The same affection courses through his parodies of Fellini and Bergman and of Pierre at Borodino. In mocking classics, in touching on the topics of religion and mortality, Allen has drawn laughter where there was silence and mustaches where there were faces...
...Gordon Bergman...