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FANNY AND ALEXANDER Directed and Written by Ingmar Bergman...
Black artists have in the past often rejected America. Some, like novelist Richard Wright, turned to communism others emigrated. Even today, many American Black artists look to Europe for inspiration and Hudlin says. Black films in particular owe much to Ingmar Bergman and other European filmmakers Hudlin makes Black films that are in tune with the American tradition. His favorite directors are Howard, Hawks and John Ford. In his own work, he plans to explore what he calls "Afro Americana "that is, the part of American culture which is Black...
Swedish stockbrokers were as gloomy last week as characters in a bleak Ingmar Bergman movie. The Stockholm stock exchange was still and silent, idled temporarily by a total breakdown in an electronic system for registering trades. Millions of transactions being processed at the time of the crash were suddenly in limbo. Said Broker Sven Hagströmer: "It's a scandal. You can't get your money, and you can't get your stocks." Nothing so disastrous had happened to the exchange since it shut down during a financial panic in 1932 after Match King Ivar Kreuger...
Strong emotions are the very stuff of grand opera, yet film has had a hard time portraying them in all their complexity. Ingmar Bergman's The Magic Flute delighted in the playfulness of Mozart's fairy tale but missed its underlying seriousness. Joseph Losey's Don Giovanni emphasized the same composer's brooding drama but failed to locate it within the realm of the human comedy. Zeffirelli's La Traviata strikes just the right note. Visually stunning and musically thrilling, it is the finest operatic movie yet made. It should appeal even to those...
...abroad, European film makers were finding it harder to attract attention, especially in the American market. The "art houses" of the 1960s, where a United Nations of cinema once reigned, now play host to mainstream movies from the suburbs of Los Angeles. Critics' groups, which had regularly knighted Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini, now bestow their awards on Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack. With many American critics, moviemakers and moviegoers on a slumming spree, the intellectual cachet of European films has been broken. But there is still cinematic ingenuity to be found outside the U.S., and sometimes even...