The Seventh Seal – DVD (and Blu-ray) of the Week
Arguably the most famous of Ingmar Bergman’s films and certainly his most iconic, The Seventh Seal is Bergman at his most allegorical. Max von Sydow, young and blond and heroic, is a disillusioned...
View ArticleReview: Quintet
[Originally published in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979] Quintet is one of those things that Robert Altman makes from time to time: an unoriginal, lumberingly obvious, altogether hokey script...
View ArticleReview: It’s Raining in Santiago
[Originally published in Movietone News 55, September 1977] A Franco-Bulgarian coproduction with Bulgaria standing in for Chilean locations, It’s Raining in Santiago seeks to reenact key events in the...
View ArticleBlu-ray: ‘Wild Strawberries’
Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957) followed his sunny, airy sex comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), the first Bergman film to catch the international spotlight, and the dark medieval...
View ArticleVideophiled Essential: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Persona’
The greatest leap in home video technology since Criterion released its first DVDs 15 years ago or so is the amazing improvement in mastering technology. With the digital revolution making digital...
View ArticleReview: ‘Scenes from a Marriage’
[Originally published in Movietone News 39, February 1975] The same cramped space and abundance of facial closeups that Bergman used in Cries and Whispers dominate his latest film as well. In Scenes...
View ArticleThe Seventh Seal – DVD (and Blu-ray) of the Week
The Seventh Seal on Criterion Blu-ray Arguably the most famous of Ingmar Bergman’s films and certainly his most iconic, The Seventh Seal is Bergman at his most allegorical. Max von Sydow, young and...
View ArticleReview: Quintet
[Originally published in Movietone News 62-63, December 1979] Quintet is one of those things that Robert Altman makes from time to time: an unoriginal, lumberingly obvious, altogether hokey script...
View ArticleReview: It’s Raining in Santiago
[Originally published in Movietone News 55, September 1977] A Franco-Bulgarian coproduction with Bulgaria standing in for Chilean locations, It’s Raining in Santiago seeks to reenact key events in the...
View ArticleBlu-ray: ‘Wild Strawberries’
Ingmar Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957) followed his sunny, airy sex comedy Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), the first Bergman film to catch the international spotlight, and the dark medieval...
View ArticleVideophiled Essential: Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Persona’
The greatest leap in home video technology since Criterion released its first DVDs 15 years ago or so is the amazing improvement in mastering technology. With the digital revolution making digital...
View ArticleReview: Scenes from a Marriage
[Originally published in Movietone News 39, February 1975] The same cramped space and abundance of facial closeups that Bergman used in Cries and Whispers dominate his latest film as well. In Scenes...
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