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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.
Criterion adds quite a bit more this time. There is a seven-minute 2003 interview with Bergman that serves as an introduction to the movie.
Created to honor the Swedish writer-director’s centenary, “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” pairs 39 films on 30 Blu-ray discs (regrettably, there is no DVD edition) with a nearly 250-page coffee ...
This Criterion Blu-ray includes the expected commentaries and essays, as well as Mosese’s less-seen, critically acclaimed 2019 essay film, “Mother, I Am Suffocating.
Blu-ray film review by Mark KidelIngmar 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 ...
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 ...
Bergman is the most psychological film-maker of his time and also the most human-centred. The tortured beings that populate the films of this middle period – the years that follow his mid-life first ...
But the new Criterion Blu-ray of Cries and Whispers (1972) — a necessary HD thing, given the film’s unarguable reputation as one of the most appallingly beautiful color films ever photographed ...
The Criterion Collection is steadily rolling out catalog titles in high definition as a means of playing catch-up, so what better way than to deliver one of Ingmar Bergman's finest pieces of art ...
High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original English mono audio (uncompressed LPCM) Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Audio Commentary by actor David Carradine ...