In Focus: Ingmar Bergman
In Focus: Ingmar Bergman
August 29–November 28, 2018
Explore Ingmar Bergman’s work in depth with this series featuring an expert lecture and discussion at each screening.
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The Seventh Seal
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The Silence
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Wild Strawberries
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Sawdust and Tinsel
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Smiles of a Summer Night
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
Summer Interlude
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1951Digital Restoration
Wednesday, August 29 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsA prima ballerina impulsively revisits the island of her youth and, in flashbacks, her first and only love. Bergman’s breakthrough film is a magical fusion of sunstruck elegiac love poem and dark suggestion.
Sawdust and Tinsel
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1953Digital Restoration
Wednesday, September 5 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsÅke Grönberg and Harriet Andersson portray turn-of-the-century circus performers in Bergman’s earliest evocation of the theater of humiliation.
Smiles of a Summer Night
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1955Digital Restoration
Wednesday, September 12 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsCouples meet, split, and reconverge at a country house in the summer of 1900 in Bergman’s carnal comedy. “A tragic-comic chase and roundelay [carried] into elegance and lyric poetry” (Pauline Kael).
The Seventh Seal
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957BAMPFA Collection Print
Wednesday, September 19 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsA medieval knight challenges Death to a game of chess in Bergman’s iconic work of cinematic philosophy. “A magically powerful film” (Pauline Kael).
Wild Strawberries
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1957Wednesday, September 26 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsThe 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” (National Film Theatre, London).
The Virgin Spring
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1960Wednesday, October 3 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView 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).
Winter Light
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1963Digital Restoration
Wednesday, October 10 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView 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, 1963Digital Restoration
Wednesday, October 17 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView 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).
Persona
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1966Digital Restoration
Wednesday, October 24 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsExploring the strange symbiosis between a speechless actress (Liv Ullmann) and her nurse companion (Bibi Andersson), this is “Bergman at his most brilliant” (Time Out).
Hour of the Wolf
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1968Digital Restoration
Wednesday, October 31 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsA woman (Liv Ullmann) tells of her life on a remote island with her artist husband (Max von Sydow) in a film that intertwines supernatural mysteries with the no less mysterious torments of creativity.
Shame
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1968Wednesday, November 7 3:10 PMKatinka Faragó and Linda H. Rugg in ConversationView DetailsLiv Ullmann and Max von Sydow star in “Bergman’s simple, masterly vision of normal war and what it does to survivors. Set a tiny step into the future, the film has the inevitability of a common dream” (Pauline Kael).
Cries and Whispers
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1972Wednesday, November 14 3:10 PMLecture by Linda H. RuggView DetailsA dying woman (Harriet Andersson) is attended by her sisters (Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Thulin) at a country house. “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).
Fanny and Alexander
Ingmar Bergman
Sweden, 1982Wednesday, November 28 3:10 PMView 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.”