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More than 40 years later, “Cries and Whispers,” on Criterion Blu-ray this week, feels like Ingmar Bergman‘s gloomiest, and most glorious, creation. Three sisters (Liv Ullman, Ingrid Thulin ...
While Criterion's Blu-ray is mostly ported from the 2005 DVD (minus one: a letter from Bergman explaining the rape scene didn't make it) the film itself has a new 2K scan so crisp you could lose ...
Is Ingmar Bergman out of fashion at the moment ... aside from the largely masturbatory efforts of Lars von Trier. But the new Criterion Blu-ray of Cries and Whispers (1972) — a necessary ...
Ingmar Bergman’s The Seventh Seal (1957) was a revelation. As we staggered out of the packed hall, still haunted by the unforgettable shot of Death leading those whose fate he'd announced, in ...
Matthieu Kassovitz's La Haine gets the upgrade from Criterion DVD to Blu-ray; And then you can enjoy the summer come in with two more Ingmar Bergman classics, "Summer Interlude" and "Summer With ...
For September, the theme of the Criterion Collection‘s slate ... only film Bergman ever made with director Ingmar Bergman, now on DVD and Blu-ray. Rounding out the crop of DVD and Blu-ray ...
When we think of the Criterion Collection ... better way than to deliver one of Ingmar Bergman's finest pieces of art, Smiles of a Summer Night, to Blu-ray on May 3, 2011?
When Ingmar Bergman wrote the script for his six-part ... Both versions of Scenes From a Marriage are now available on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection, and each is essential viewing. Both cuts ...
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 ...