Word: ingmar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unfortunate to see Lemmon--like Woody Allen and Robin Williams--become seemingly ashamed of his comedic talents, and turn to awful "serious" roles in order to get respect. Woody Allen went from making great, loopy comedies to putting out insufferable Ingmar Bergmanesque dramas, as strained as facelifts and as painful as enemas. Robin Williams turned to sentimental pabulum like "Dead Poets' Society" and "Awakenings." Lemmon turned from Billy Wilder comedies like "Some Like It Hot" to appalling pieces of work like 1973's abominable "Save the Tiger," (for which he won the Academy Award as Best Actor) and Constantine Costa...
...Harvard audiences, his seamless juxtapositions of the random places on campus where he was allowed to shoot may feel disorienting, but in a fun way. The cinematography of Sven Nykvist (of Ingmar Bergman fame) is competent, but it has none of the passion of his most recent work, the lyrical "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" and the truly horrible (but well-filmed) "Sleepless in Seattle...
...Danish director, lauded by Ingmar Bergman and much of the international community, won't win any prizes for his screenplay and directions of "The House of the Spirits," In August's cinematic constructed relationships become a series of unrelated minidramas...
directed by Ingmar Bergman...
...seems particularly fitting that Ingmar Bergman should have been born on July 14, for the Swedish director has always been something of a revolutionary. While Sweden's film industry had made a name for itself during the years of silent movies, producing actors like Greta Garbo and directors like Victor Sjostrom, it became practically unknown after the advent of sound. This was the state of affairs until Bergman single-handedly put Swedish film on the map again in the 1950s. Until his retirement in 1983, Bergman produced a corpus of films which marked him as one of the most important...