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...later founded Janus Films, the American distributor for such directors as Jean Renoir and Ingmar Bergman, and probably the most important popularizer of old and foreign movies in the United States...
...week-long engagement at the Harvard Sq. Theater. The festival features two classic new wave films per day, and if there is any problem with the movies it's that they are all too good to be taken in such short order. You get a good does of great Bergman this weekend, with The Seventh Seal tonight and Wild Strawberries on Sunday. Renoir's The Rules of the Game, one of the best social-political movies ever made, is showing tonight, followed on Saturday by The Grand Illusion, Renoir's anti-war film about the 1914 world conflict. Welles...
Casablanca is arguably the best piece of movie romance ever to work its way onto the silver screen. It's all there: love and war, heroes and villians, sentiment and more sentiment. If that's not enough there's Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. And if that's still not enough there's the most touching line in all of movie history: "The problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world." Bogart reportedly picked the movie's ending because it made his mother cry. If it doesn't do the same...
...Festival is one of the main attractions of the Cambridge movie world, and it's back again for another go-round at the Harvard Sq. Theatre. Each day features a new double-bill of new-wavey classics. The series begins Wednesday with Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night. The Truffaut is wonderful but confusing entertainment and the second film is Bergman at his lovliest and most comprehensible. On Thursday you can check out Marcel Camus's Black Orpheus, a visually stunning but cineamagraphically blurred document on life in the slums...
Port of Call (1948) is being shown at MIT tonight as part of a six week Bergman festival. Shows are at 7:30 and 9:30, admission is $1. Remember we've got other Bergman playing around. Persona is at the Brattle and it's not too bad. The Touch is playing with a decent Wedding in Blood at Central Sq., and it stinks...