Bergman on a Summer Night

7/3/04 to 7/31/04

  • Cries and Whispers|July 17|

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  • The Magic Flute

    Saturday, July 3 6:00pm
    This witty, loving adaptation of Mozart's exuberant opera revels in its own theatricality, revealing the joy and wonder in Bergman's metaphysics. "A blissful present, sensuous, luxuriant."-New Yorker
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  • Fanny and Alexander

    Saturday, July 10 7:00pm
    This chronicle of an early-20th-century theatrical family, told from the perspective of a young brother and sister, is comic and tragic, opulent and intellectual, mystical and autobiographical. Bergman called it "the sum total of my life as a filmmaker." Repeated on Sunday, July 11.
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  • Fanny and Alexander

    Sunday, July 11 5:30pm
    This chronicle of an early-20th-century theatrical family, told from the perspective of a young brother and sister, is comic and tragic, opulent and intellectual, mystical and autobiographical. Bergman called it "the sum total of my life as a filmmaker."
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  • Cries and Whispers

    Saturday, July 17 5pm
    A woman dying of cancer is attended by her sisters at a country house. "Superlative even for Bergman: a laceratingly beautiful attempt to explore the human need not only to draw comfort from the past, but to project love back into its dusty reaches."-Monthly Film Bulletin
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  • Autumn Sonata

    Saturday, July 17 7pm
    A Chopin prelude triggers a long-delayed confrontation between concert pianist Ingrid Bergman and her aggrieved daughter Liv Ullmann in this intense and penetrating chamber piece.
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  • The Virgin Spring

    Saturday, July 24 5pm
    A stark medieval allegory of faith, sexual violence, and revenge. "Sven Nykvist's luminous black-and-white photography conspire[s] with the austerity of Bergman's imagery to create an extraordinary metaphysical charge."-Time Out
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  • The Magician

    Saturday, July 24 7pm
    With Max Von Sydow as a 19th-century mesmerist, "Bergman's chilling exploration of charlatanism is in fact one of his most genuinely enjoyable films....much of [it] devoted to wittily ironic sideswipes at bourgeois hypocrisy."-Time Out
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  • Smiles of a Summer Night

    Saturday, July 31 5pm
    Couples meet, split, and reconverge at a country house in the summer of 1900. "Carnal comedy is a peculiarly difficult genre....Bergman achieves one of the few classics of the type: a tragic-comic chase and roundelay [carried] into elegance and lyric poetry."-Pauline Kael
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  • Wild Strawberries

    Saturday, July 31 7:10pm
    The film that cemented Bergman's international reputation deftly interweaves memory, reality, and dream. As an elderly professor recollecting his life's failures, "Victor Sjöström gives one of the greatest performances of cinema."-NFT London
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