The Silence is so preoccupied with vice that its virtues are all but obscured. Written and directed by Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman, the film closes the ring of the trilogy that began with Through a Glass ...

Many are suspicious of his films. They seem too much Works of Art. Covered with dust, they are, at their worst, pieces already fit for museums, joyless items of Culture. In a decade that prizes ...

Most of them are as dark as they come. The Scandi Noir that has flooded our screens in the last few years is black in its own way, and despair is seldom absent from it, but "Bergman noir" is something ...

STOCKHOLM — Ingmar Bergman’s ghostly presence permeates the Royal Dramatic Theater here, where he directed dozens of plays over decades. So much so that when I got stuck in an elevator for 30 minutes ...

Kupferberg shows how she used to splice movie films. Every field of study has its centers of interest and its North Stars of innovation and creativity. For film lovers, there are many names that, ...

Winter Light. Sweden’s cinematic poltergeist, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, once more haunts the dark and chilly corridors where Man loses God, and once more the soul in torment seems to be his own.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Ingmar Bergman wanted his funeral to be a low-key, private affair and his family, friends and neighbors are doing their utmost to keep it that way. Bergman died last week at age 89 ...

Bergman’s journey to the underworld is full of horror, but done with a subtlety that avoids the literalism of vampires and the thrill of murder and monsters in the dark. The horror is closer to home ...