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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 ...
No filmmaker more deserves the lavish treatment that the Criterion Collection ... director’s centenary, “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” pairs 39 films on 30 Blu-ray discs (regrettably, there ...
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 ...
Following the poor reception of “The Touch,” his first English language film, Ingmar Bergman ... Cries and Whispers (Criterion, Blu-ray, $39.95; DVD, $29.95) ANDY KLEIN is the film critic ...
Could this be Bergman’s magnum opus? It is often referred to in those terms, and yet the writer and director’s work is distinguished above all by a great diversity underpinned by a singular vision of ...
HOW DO YOU MEASURE YOUR OWN SANITY IN A WORLD GONE MAD? In 1977, legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Persona) teamed up with the equally legendary Italian producer Dino De ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...