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Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman, 47, is almost as pessimistic on paper as he is on film (Winter Light, The Silence). Bedridden for four months with a bronchial infection, Bergman issued a statement accepting The Netherlands' Erasmus Award ($13,800) for his contributions to the arts. It was less a statement than a cheerless obituary on the arts. "Religion and art are kept alive for sentimental reasons," brooded the Lutheran pastor's son; and the modern artistic movement "seems to me like a snake's skin full of ants. The snake is long since dead, eaten, deprived...
...prestige in both the creative and performing arts. Film Director Jean Renoir recently drew 400 students to his class at U.C.L.A., a figure previously reached there only by Playwright William Inge. U.C.L.A.'s theater-arts department has also snared John Houseman and Josef von Sternberg, expects to land Ingmar Bergman next fall. Its art department has had Jacques Lipchitz; its music department, Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar, Composers Roy Harris and John Vincent - and even a whole quartet in residence, the Feri Roth chamber group...
Swedish Actor Max von Sydow, who has appeared potent in the films of Ingmar Bergman, plays Christ vividly but all in one key. Though Von Sydow's brooding face can burn with El Greco agony, he seems little more than a cool, compassionate waxwork as he strides from Nazareth to Judea, recruiting disciples and saving souls with an unbroken flow of scriptural quotations...
...reading period hors d'ocuvre the Brattle gives us Ingmar Bergman...
...Director Donner most emphatically thinks his lovers are normal, magnificently normal. Sex breaks open the ground of their lives and in it plants the seed of love. The final scenes are subtly realized and beautifully touching, but in one of them Director Donner, a 31-year-old protege of Ingmar Bergman, unfortunately promulgates one of those long long thoughts of youth that may mildly embarrass him when he gets older. Marriage, his heroine announces earnestly, is merely a "lesson in resignation"; the only true love is free love. Oh, well. In a movie like this, what's one anticlimax...