Day 19: ‘Scenes From a Marriage’ 1974
‘Scenes From a Marriage’ 1974 Today was the second last of the Ingmar Bergman films in what has become The Two Weeks of Ingmar Bergman. In a lot of way …
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‘Scenes From a Marriage’ 1974 Today was the second last of the Ingmar Bergman films in what has become The Two Weeks of Ingmar Bergman. In a lot of way …
Read More‘Cries and Whispers’ 1972 Suddenly is was Day 20 and I hadn’t written about Day 18. In Bergman Week, with so many deep or difficult films, it did become a …
Read More‘Smiles of a Summer Night’ 1955 Ingmar Bergman Week, which began with the aim of watching Fanny and Alexander, The Seventh Seal and, possibly, Persona, is turning into a marathon, …
Read More‘Cries and Whispers’ 1972 Today, I took on another mighty Ingmar Bergman film, the sixth of his in seven days, the bleakest and most oppressive of those I have seen …
Read More‘The Virgin Spring’ 1960 Yesterday’s Bergman film, The Virgin Spring (1960) was more intense than Persona (1966) or Fanny and Alexander (1982). More intense even than Hour of the Wolf (1968), which …
Read More‘Hour of the Wolf’ 1966 Yesterday’s Bergman film was Hour of the Wolf (1968), a disturbing tale of a missing man, and a pregnant couple’s encounters with the bizarre people who …
Read More10 days down – 355 days to go. As if yesterday’s effort wasn’t enough, I decided, a week ago, to schedule Fanny and Alexander as my Tuesday Ingmar Bergman challenge. Wow. …
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