Ingmar Bergman
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"Spending time in those theaters, I grew increasingly irritated by the offhand putdowns and snide of cinema snobs like the New Yorker’s Pauline Kael and The New York Times’s Vincent Canby, who implied that Times Square movies could only entertain low-IQ types, and seemed unable to praise anything beyond the hip new Fellini or Bergman film. I, on the other hand, felt their "old masters" were directors who hadn’t shown a new wrinkle in years,. To me, 42nd Street was where the real aesthetic innovations were being made. There was no permanent record of the type of exploitation films I had so relentlessly attended. So in June 1980, I started Sleazoid Express."-- Sleazoid Express (1984) by Bill Landis |
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Ingmar Bergman (July 14 1918 – July 30 2007) was a Swedish stage and film director who was one of the key modernist film auteurs of the 20th century. His work is very gloomy; he mainly found bleakness and despair in his explorations of the human condition. He said of his own films: "To have done 50 films with such a variety of misery is quite an achievement." Bergman had five marriages and eight children, and his work often explored the tensions between married couples.
Ingmar Bergman and Kroger Babb
Kroger Babb's acquisition of the American theatrical rights for Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika (Summer with Monika) is a good example of film re-editing or film remixing. About one third of the film was cut, and the remaining sixty-two minutes emphasized nudity by retaining a skinny-dipping scene; the result was titled Monika, the Story of a Bad Girl. Suggestive advertising art, including promotional postcards, portrayed the nude rear of Harriet Andersson.
Filmography
- Crisis (1946) (Kris)
- It Rains on Our Love (1946) (Det regnar på vår kärlek)
- A Ship to India (1947) (Skepp till India land)
- Music in Darkness (1948) (Musik i mörker)
- Port of Call (1948) (Hamnstad)
- Prison (1949) (Fängelse)
- Thirst / Three Strange Loves (1949) (Törst)
- This Can't Happen Here (1950) (Sånt händer inte här)
- To Joy (1950) (Till glädje)
- Summer Interlude (1951) (Sommarlek)
- Secrets of Women (1952) (Kvinnors väntan)
- Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) (Gycklarnas afton)
- Summer with Monika (1953) (Sommaren med Monika)
- A Lesson in Love (1954) (En lektion i kärlek)
- Dreams (1955) (Kvinnodröm) aka Journey Into Autumn
- Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (Sommarnattens leende)
- The Seventh Seal (1957) (Det sjunde inseglet)
- Wild Strawberries (1957) (Smultronstället)
- The Magician / The Face (1958) (Ansiktet )
- Brink of Life (1958) (Nära livet)
- The Devil's Eye (1960) (Djävulens öga)
- The Virgin Spring (1960) (Jungfrukällan) (won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film)
- Through a Glass Darkly (1961) (Såsom i en spegel) (won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film)
- Winter Light (1962) (Nattvardsgästerna)
- The Silence (1963) (Tystnaden)
- All These Women (1964) (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor)
- Persona (1966)
- Hour of the Wolf (1967) (Vargtimmen)
- Shame (1968) (Skammen)
- The Rite (1968) (Riten) (TV)
- The Passion of Anna (1969) (En passion)
- The Touch (1971) (Beröringen)
- Cries and Whispers (1973) (Viskningar och rop) (won Academy Award for Best Cinematography)
- Scenes from a Marriage (1973) (Scener ur ett äktenskap)
- The Magic Flute (1975) (Trollflöjten), first shown on Swedish television, followed by a cinematic release
- Face to Face (1976) (Ansikte mot ansikte)
- The Serpent's Egg (1977) (Das Schlangenei)
- Autumn Sonata (1978) (Höstsonaten)
- From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) (Aus dem Leben der Marionetten)
- Fanny and Alexander (1982) (Fanny och Alexander) (won 4 Academy Awards, including one for Best Foreign Language Film)
- Karin's Face (1984) (Karins ansikte) (TV)
- After the Rehearsal (1984) (Efter repetitionen)
- In The Presence of a Clown (1997) (Larmar och gör sig till) (TV)
- Saraband (2003) (TV)