Ingmar Bergman

Don't Call What Richard Did "Bergmanesque"

Staring Down Death: The Singular Career of Max von Sydow

"Best Movie Of The Year"? I Saw It At Film Forum!

Roger Ebert called the Iranian melodrama A Separation "the best film of the year." What's more, it won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film and it's nominated for two Oscars. And it's indeed remarkable -- a far cry from slick, bloated, soulless Hollywood fare.

Through a Glass Darkly--Filmy Theatrics

A classic Ingmar Bergman movie shifts to the stage

Best Films of 1972: Eight 10-Best Lists (And 'The Godfather' Only Makes One of Them!)

​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. January 11, 1973, Vol. XVIII, No. 2 films in focus by Andrew Sarris 'Tis the season to grind out 10-best lists, and this is certainly not the year to turn one's back on tradition. Still, there is at least one prominent film critic who ... More >>

Elaine Stritch is Flubbing Her Lines

​Octogenarian Broadway legend Elaine Stritch is reportedly messing up lines here and there in A Little Night Music, but hey, that's what, um, er...line!--uh, that's what previews are for. Observers say costar Bernadette Peters helped her out on a line at one performance, and other nights, the ... More >>

The Silence

The Decade's Best Theater

From undervalued plays and underfunded companies, 10 years of freewheeling joy

Cries and Whispers

Persona

Hour of the Wolf

'Verboten Presents Ida Engberg'

50 Cent's 51st Law: Do Not Let Thy Before I Self Destruct Leak

​If you are marooned on a desert island, train feral cats to be your protectors and companions, like Alexander Selkirk. Also: Be a tyrannical dickhead, like famous director John Ford, but also warmly encourage collaborations, like famous director Ingmar Bergman. All these 50th Law-fueld revela ... More >>

Fanny and Alexander

Monika

Broadway's Reviving Revivals Again!

​What Broadway does best is re-mounting the same shows you've already seen at every stage of your conscious life. In hell, I'm sure, I'll open a Playbill and find I'm watching Guys and Dolls one more time, this time with all pedophiles and serial killers. So which musical rehashes are we most ... More >>

The Seventh Seal

Merry Christmas, God Is Dead: Fanny and Alexander at IFC

Fellini and Bergman Ask: Have You Seen My Childhood?

The Criterion Collection Abides

CARNAL COMEDY

Bergman brings on the laughs

Virgin Spring

Port of Call

A Day in the Country & Smiles of a Summer Night

Wintry Joanie Sommers in a YouTube Treasure!

The Fine Art of Nordic Brood

Four finalists for Finland’s prestigious Ars Fennica find a New York home at Scandinavia House

Complete. Original. Bergman.

Fanny and Alexander, the long cut, at the IFC

Bergman's Bad Girl

Two Arts, Many Dimensions

Ingmar Bergman, 1918–2007

Saying Goodbye to Two Giants of Cinema

Ingmar Bergman and Michaelangelo Antonioni

The Natural

Marking the recent passing of the great Swedish realist "cameraman," MOMA pays tribute

Redistributing the Wealth

NYFF's 31-film ode to Janus a veritable Cinema 101

Last Dance

Bergman's final film lures Liv Ullmann out of retirement

Irreconcilable Differences

Re-Marriage: Slight Scenes update not Bergman’s finest vintage, though still profound

Another 10

Autumn Sonata

Young guns Jaoui and Jia mingle with old masters Bergman, Rohmer, and Godard at NYFF

Next to Godliness

The second coming of Bergmania: Six takes on a Swedish master's spiritual investigations

After the Rehearsals: Bergman's 1982 Career Summation

The Need for More Than Greed: A Trio of Stroheim Sagas

Haunted By Bergman

A Great Director Makes an Old Play Walk Again

Suspended Animation

Ingmar Bergman Saves the Queens

Home, Swede Home

A Hard Dane’s Night

In Search of the Perfect Hamlet (Or Just a Good One)

Strindberg Man

Where Genius And Problem Case Meet

Wreckage and Reckonings

Split Persona

Liv Ullmann’s Cries and Whispers

In the Presence of a Clown

Tests of Faith

Flash of the Titans

Previewing the 36th New York Film Festival