With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar The history of ...
A film translation of “The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman,” a 2009 radio drama by L.A. pop duo Sparks turned 2010 concept album turned 2011 sparsely staged theatrical production, is moving forward with ...
With full credit going to the extraordinary website Letters of Note, we came across an incredible letter written by Stanley Kubrick to Ingmar Bergman in 1960. It’s part of the Deutsche Kinemathek’s ...
The late Ingmar Bergman is best known for films such as “Fanny and Alexander,” “Smiles Of A Summer Night” and “Wild Strawberries,” among many others. With a career spanning over 60 years, he’s ...
In the category of culture-driven documentaries that focus on film history, a particularly enjoyable subset of that subset is the kind made by noteworthy artists themselves. There’s Martin Scorsese ...
Ingmar Bergman, one of the leading influences in the development of cinema whose films probed the mysteries of human existence with indelible imagery, died Monday. He was 89. By Duane Byrge Ingmar ...
When it comes to filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, it’s all about the three S’s: slow, somber, and Scandinavian. Of course there’s worlds more to his work than that, but it’s true that the Swedish mid-century ...
The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann A new opera by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek, directed by ...