On the surface, Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" might seem like a parody of Swedish art films -- a moody, insular drama filled with extended silences, repressed emotions and existential despair. It ...

Ingmar Bergman’s aim was quite apparently to allow the two women to lay their innermost feelings completely bare. Neither comes off smelling like a rose, quite frankly, though each is oddly relatable ...

NEW HAVEN -- His middle name might just as well be angst. Swedish film director/writer Ingmar Bergman, that master of peeling away the layers of relationships to bare the core of his characters' ...

AUTUMN SONATA was the only collaboration between cinema’s two great Bergmans: Ingmar, the iconic director of The Seventh Seal, and Ingrid, the monumental star of Casablanca. The grand dame, playing an ...

The tempestuous bonds that bend and break between mother and daughter are exposed in “Autumn Sonata,” the world premiere drama based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1978 film currently on stage at the Yale ...

What no one could deny or challenge in Bergman’s oeuvre was his extraordinary repertory of beautiful and sensual actresses, including Mai Zetterling, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Ulla Jacobsson, ...

In this year of our lord 2018, when the entire world seems to be tottering on the precipice of geopolitical calamity and Mother Nature is doing her damnedest to drown and burn up as many of us as she ...

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 ...

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 ...