Word: ingmar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AFTER THE REHEARSAL Directed and written by Ingmar Bergman...
...other film maker of the first rank has devoted himself so fully to another medium as Ingmar Bergman has to the stage. Since his career began in 1944 (when his first screenplay was produced, and he was named artistic director of the Halsingborg City Theater), Bergman has spent most of his time as one of the world's premier theater directors. For him, the writing and directing of films is both a vacation from and an extension of his stage work. In films from Smiles of a Summer Night to Fanny and Alexander, Bergman has celebrated that bare stage...
...ceremony went to favorites: Robert Duvall won the best actor Oscar for his role as an alcoholic country singer in Tender Mercies; Linda Hunt received the best supporting actress award for playing a male dwarf in The Year of Living Dangerously; and Fanny and Alexander, the last major feature Ingmar Bergman has said he will ever direct, took the prize for best foreign picture...
...long march of celluloid confined to Hollywood. In last week's balloting by the National Society of Film Critics, two of the top three vote getters were Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander (3 hr. 10 min.) and R.W. Fassbinder's mammoth Berlin Alexanderplatz (15 hr. 21 min.). In the time it would take to watch just those two films, you could have seen all ten pictures nominated for the 1937 Oscar and still have had time left over to catch a Pete Smith Specialty and a couple of Mickey Mouse cartoons...
...Ingmar Bergman Celebration...