Ingmar Bergman < PopMatters < Reviews, Features, News, Videos, Tour Dates

Now on PopMatters

Features
:. The Story of a Soul Survivor: ‘Private Dancer’ at 25
:. Re-Meet the Beatles: PopMatters Salutes the Still Fab Four

Columns
Lowbrow Literati: Are We All Mythtaken About Star Wars?
Jazz Today: Spinach and Broccoli Music: An Interview with Composer and Drummer John Hollenbeck

Blogs
Short Ends and Leader: Victim’s Gay Hero and Modern Marvels of Social Change
Consuming Consumables: Lost: The Complete Fifth Season Dharma Initiative Orientation Kit

Music
:. The Rolling Stones: Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out (40th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set)
:. John Mayer: Battle Studies
:. Duran Duran: Rio Special Limited Edition / Live at Hammersmith ‘82!
:. Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard: One Fast Move or I’m Gone: Music From Kerouac’s Big Sur
:. Raekwon: Only Built 4 Cuban Linx 2
:. Heavy Trash: Midnight Soul Serenade
:. Otto: Certa Manhã Acordei de Sonhos Intranquilos

Events
:. Galactic + Mike Dillon’s Go-Go Jungle: 6 November 2009 - Austin, TX

Film
:. The Road
:. Ninja Assassin

DVDs
:. The L Word: The Final Season
:. Frailty
:. The Monster Squad: 20th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray)

Books
:. Writing in the Dark, by David Grossman
:. Bicycle Diaries by David Byrne

Multimedia
:. Where the Wild Things Are

News
:. INTERVIEW:Comedian and author Aaron Karo shares his thoughts on being single
:. INTERVIEW:Ed O’Neill is married with a child in ‘Modern Family’
:. INTERVIEW:Barbara Taylor Bradford: a real ‘Woman of Substance’
:. E-readers: The price might entice readers, author notes

Reviews

The Seventh Seal

By Kate Williams

This film was lauded for its tough and uncompromising cerebral vision, its stark visual style, and the knowing defiance of its inherent seriousness. [22 June 2009]

Sawdust and Tinsel: Criterion Collection

By Chadwick Jenkins

Couples in this film draw blood in order to feel the human warmth left behind by bruises. [11 December 2007]

A Film Trilogy by Ingmar Bergman (1961-1963)

By Michael S. Smith

All three films are concerned with ideas, states of being, and subjective experience. [17 November 2003]

Wild Strawberries (1957/2002)

By Matt Langdon

One of Ingmar Bergman's best films and certainly one of the best ever made on the subject of aging. [1 January 1995]