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DVD006864

Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema

Bergman, Ingmar

The Criterion Collection, 2018

Description:

BluRay - Zone A.   viewing copy.   2 videodiscs of 2.

Notes:

In honor of Ingmar Bergman’s 100th birthday, the Criterion Collection offers this collection of films by the great director. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his intensity and pursuit of profound questions. The struggles of faith and morality, the nature of dreams, the agonies and joys of human relationships - he explored these subjects in works ranging from comedies to dramas. “Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema” - arranged as a film festival, with opening and closing nights bookending double features - spans six decades and thirty-nine films, tracing themes and images across Bergman’s career. Supplemental materials include audio commentaries; introductions; making-of documentaries; trailers; still galleries; and a 248-page book, featuring essays and credit information, available at checkout.

Titles

+ Magician, The

Alternate Title:

Ansiktet

Director:

Bergman, Ingmar

Production Co:

Svensk Filmindustri.

Running Time:

Feature.   101 minutes

Sound:

sound - monaural

Color:

b/w

Country:

Sweden

Year:

1958

Language:

Swedish language with English subtitles

Genre:

Drama, Comedy

Notes:

With The Magician, an engaging, brilliantly conceived tale of chicanery that doubles as a symbolic portrait of the artist as a deceiver, Ingmar Bergman proved himself to be one of cinema’s premier illusionists. Max von Sydow stars as Dr. Vogler, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions whose magic is put to the test in Stockholm by the cruel, eminently rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus (Gunnar Björnstrand). The result is a diabolically clever battle of wits that’s both frightening and funny, shot by Gunnar Fischer in rich, gorgeously gothic black and white. Supplemental materials include: visual essay by Bergman scholar Peter Cowie; brief 1967 video interview with director Ingmar Bergman about the film; English-language audio interview with Bergman conducted by filmmakers Olivier Assayas and Stig Björkman in 1990.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Magic Flute, The

Alternate Title:

Trollflöjten

Director:

Bergman, Ingmar

Production Co:

Sveriges Radio TV2

Running Time:

Feature.   138 minutes

Sound:

sound - stereo

Color:

color

Country:

Sweden

Year:

1975

Language:

Swedish language with English subtitles

Genre:

Film Adaptation, Opera, Romance, Adventure

Notes:

This scintillating screen version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved opera showcases Ingmar Bergman’s deep knowledge of music and gift for expressing it cinematically. Casting some of Europe’s finest soloists—Josef Köstlinger, Ulrik Cold, Håkan Hagegård, and Birgit Nordin among them—the director lovingly recreated the baroque theater of Sweden’s Drottningholm Palace to stage the story of the prince Tamino and his zestful sidekick Papageno, who are sent on a mission to save a beautiful princess from the clutches of evil. A celebration of love and forgiveness that exhibits a profound appreciation for the artifice and spectacle of the theater, The Magic Flute is among the most exquisite opera films ever made. Supplemental materials include: interview with Ingmar Bergman about THE MAGIC FLUTE (1974, 29 min); interview with film scholar Peter Cowie on THE MAGIC FLUTE (2018, 18 min).

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ After the Rehearsal

Alternate Title:

Efter repetitionen

Director:

Bergman, Ingmar

Production Co:

Cinematograph; Personafilm; Sveriges Television Kanal 1; Svenska Filminstitutet

Running Time:

Feature.   73 minutes

Sound:

sound - stereo

Color:

color

Country:

Sweden

Year:

1984

Language:

Swedish language with English subtitles

Genre:

Drama

Notes:

With this spare chamber piece, set in an empty theater, Ingmar Bergman returned to his perennial theme of the permeability of life and art. Lingering after a rehearsal for August Strindberg’s A Dream Play (a touchstone for the filmmaker throughout his career), eminent director Henrik (Erland Josephson) enters into a frank and flirtatious conversation with his up-and-coming star, Anna (Lena Olin), leading him to recall his affair with Anna’s late mother, the self-destructive actress Rakel (Ingrid Thulin). The sharply written and impeccably performed After the Rehearsal, originally made for television, pares away all artifice to examine both the allure and the cost of a life in the theater.

Link to:

FII catalog |

+ Tystnad! Tagning! Trollflöjten!

Director:

Faragó, Katinka; Reuterswärd, Måns

Production Co:

Sveriges Television (SVT)

Running Time:

Feature.   65 minutes

Sound:

sound

Color:

color

Country:

Sweden

Year:

1975

Language:

Swedish language

Genre:

Documentary

Notes:

This hour-long documentary, whose title translates as “Silence! Action! The Magic Flute!,” was produced by longtime Ingmar Bergman script supervisor Katinka Faragó and her husband, Måns Reuterswärd. It was originally broadcast on Swedish television on January 6, 1975.