Thursday, August 4 2011
100 Essential Directors - Ingmar Bergman
100 Essential Directors celebrates directors of distinct vision, who have honed their respective crafts, who have brought something new and exciting to the medium, and who continue to push the boundaries of the form.
Tuesday, August 2 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 1: Chantal Akerman - Bernardo Bertolucci
Neurotic New Yorkers, Queer Mavericks, Swedish close-ups and the art of putting a microphone on every person on set are but a few of the themes explored in PopMatters' first group of ten essential directors, Chantal Akerman through Bernardo Bertolucci. Please note that any perceived omissions were likely on purpose...
Tuesday, July 26 2011
Overlooked Polish Masterpieces: Two Essential Films by Jerzy Kawalerowciz
Kawalerowicz's work would set the intellectual tone for post-war acts of filmic subversion and transcendance within Poland's burgeoning industry, essential characteristics that Polish cinema would come to be best known for.
Tuesday, July 5 2011
Through a Glass Darkly: New York Theater Workshop (Off Broadway) - New York
Peter Cowie adds his insight into a review that considers the staged version of Through a Glass Darkly with Ingmar Bergman's masterpiece film.
Tuesday, December 11 2007
Sawdust and Tinsel: Criterion Collection
Couples in this film draw blood in order to feel the human warmth left behind by bruises.
Friday, July 20 2007
The Profound Consolation: The Use of Bach’s Music in the Films of Ingmar Bergman (Part 4)
The music in Bergman's Saraband sets up numerous tensions that it never reconciles: listener and performer, individual and group, passive aestheticism and practical enactment. Music in Bergman's world offers hope, but it does not offer answers.
Monday, November 17 2003
A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman (1961-1963)
All three films are concerned with ideas, states of being, and subjective experience.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Wild Strawberries (1957/2002)
One of Ingmar Bergman's best films and certainly one of the best ever made on the subject of aging.

































