Word: ingmar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enters by dread, but sin in turn brought dread with it," wrote Kierkegaard, describing the guilt that floods the dark night of the soul. Another Scandinavian, Ingmar Bergman, plays out that quasi-religious concept by examining one soul in the blackness just before dawn-the Hour of the Wolf, "when nightmares are most palpable,' when ghosts and demons hold sway...
...viewer is more likely to be caught between boredom and sleep. Director Rolf Thiele seems to have been trying to make like Ingmar Bergman, with his period costumes, penumbral lighting, and self-conscious composition of every frame. But style is no substitute for substance. Most of what made the original story compelling-Tonio's long, self-probing speeches to Lisaveta and his conception of the writing man as both artist and bourgeois, free spirit and square-has been so compressed and truncated that it is lost in the snail's-pace atmosphere of the film. The result, unfortunately...
...final note. List-making is a capricious process at best, and the selection of the last half is highly subjective. Billion Dollar Brain may be an oasis of craft in a desert of disjointed ill-conceived movies, but I can hardly make an objective case for it over Ingmar Bergman's Persona. An intense and deeply personal statement, Persona, to me, seemed largely an illustration of uncinematic ideas. Therefore, I didn't include it. But this was also the way I felt about Accident, and its selection over Persona simply indicates personal preference for Losey over Bergman. A point...
...PERSONA. Ingmar Bergman is deliberately difficult, but nonetheless fascinating, in this study of two women (Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullman) whose personalities merge...
PERSONA. A famous actress (Liv Ullman) and a nurse (Bibi Andersson) exchange personalities in this absorbing, if sometimes difficult, movie directed by Sweden's master film maker, Ingmar Bergman...