Bergman 100: The Silence of God
Bergman 100: The Silence of God
March 1–May 9, 2018
This installment in our yearlong tribute to Ingmar Bergman focuses on his metaphysical investigations, as well as his collaboration with actor Max von Sydow.
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The Seventh Seal
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Through a Glass Darkly
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Winter Light
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The Silence
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Fanny and Alexander
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957BAMPFA Collection Print
Film to Table dinner follows the March 31 screening
Thursday, March 1 7 PMView DetailsA medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy. “A magically powerful film” (Pauline Kael).
Through a Glass Darkly
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1961Saturday, March 3 8 PMView DetailsBergman’s still-provocative portrait of a young woman sinking into insanity while both family and God fail to save her.
Winter Light
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1963Friday, March 9 7 PMLecture by Bart TestaView DetailsThe central film in Bergman’s “God trilogy” features Gunnar Björnstrand as a pastor haunted by God’s silence. With Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin.
The Silence
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1963Saturday, March 10 7:30 PMIntroduction by Bart TestaView DetailsTwo sisters play out dramas of lust and fear in a foreign land where war looms, an emotional landscape forsaken by God. A work of “staggering integrity” (Chicago Reader).
Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 198235mm Print
Friday, March 23 7 PMIntroduction by Anna SernerView DetailsThis chronicle of an early twentieth-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."
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957BAMPFA Collection Print
Film to Table dinner follows the March 31 screening
Saturday, March 31 5:30 PMView DetailsA medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy. “A magically powerful film” (Pauline Kael).
The Magician
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 195835mm Print
Sunday, April 1 4:30 PMView DetailsWith Max von Sydow as a nineteenth-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).
Sawdust and Tinsel
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1953Thursday, May 3 7 PMView DetailsÅke Grönberg and Harriet Andersson portray turn-of-the-century circus performers in Bergman’s earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation.
The Virgin Spring
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1960Wednesday, May 9 7 PMView DetailsA 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).