Ingmar Bergman Rick on 22 Feb 2008
Do you love Ingmar Bergman but would also love to see an affectionate send-up? Do you hate him, think his films are the most pompous pieces of flammable celluloid ever to haunt the planet? Feel just . . . feh! about him but have nothing else to do? Well, have I [...]
Analysis & Commentary and Ingmar Bergman Rick on 14 Jan 2008
Way back in August of ‘07, after the death of Ingmar Bergman, Jonathan Rosenbaum launched an attack on his legacy. Of course, that was his right, and I appreciate Mr. Rosenbaum’s criticism . . . it goes beyond the synopsis-and-a-three-stars-style of many critics. But his attack, which seemed mean-spirited so soon after Bergman’s death, sparked [...]
Tags: Bergman, Ebert, Fanny & Alexander, Film, Rosenbaum
Analysis & Commentary and Ingmar Bergman Rick on 08 Aug 2007
I’ve left off writing about Ingmar Bergman’s death for a week now. I kind of wanted to see how things would shake out in the press, and I guess it’s happened by now. We’ve seen both pans and praise, retrenchment and reassessment, and I’ll stop with the alliteration now, but the responses have run the [...]
Ingmar Bergman and Reviews Rick on 22 Apr 2007
Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers is a long film. Not running-time long – it’s only 91 minutes. Not movie-time long either – it takes place over the span of only a few days. But psychologically, it’s a long film . . . at points in it you want it to end, already, [...]
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