On the surface, Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" might seem like a parody of Swedish art films -- a moody, insular drama filled with extended silences, repressed emotions and existential despair. It ...
Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...
Renowned movie critic Roger Ebert awarded it four stars, calling it "a big, exciting, ambitious film". Fanny and Alexander ...
With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar The history of ...
Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died Monday at age 89, was not merely the most influential Scandinavian filmmaker in history, he was the very embodiment of the idea that a film artist could work ...
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An Ingmar Bergman movie is in the works from SF Studios, with Robert Gustafsson (The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared) playing the celebrated Swedish auteur. The ...
The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann A new opera by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek, directed by ...