Ingmar Bergman: C/D?

is so much 'jonathan rosenbaum articles very much in character'. it half pisses me off, but i half adore it.

This would be OTM if J. Ro had written anything in the past year or so that wasn't paint-by-numbers. He's still more readable than most working film critics, but I'd be much more interested if he was even occasionally surprising anymore.

Results 1 - 10 of about 125,000 for "JONATHAN ROSENBAUM" and great

wow, Hour of the Wolf is about the worst thing he did in the '60s, amirite?

I'm no fan of The Silence, which desperately needs Woody Allen.

at least there are no bargain-basement vampires in that one, and Erland Josephson walking on the ceiling.

What Mr. Bergman had that those two masters lacked was the power to entertain — which often meant a reluctance to challenge conventional film-going habits

dumbest thing an otherwise intelligent critic has ever written?

I like The Silence.

Didn't Bergman recognize Hour of the Wolf as a failure? (and, um, The Touch, too?)

Bergman Retro in SF
http://www.castrotheatre.com/p-list.html

I just finished the TV version of 'Scenes of a Marriage' and was wondering what to watch next. I've already seen a few of his older 50's movies but I'm look more interested in small personal dramas in natural/contemporary settings. Any suggestions?

Monika

Through a Glass Darkly (a little expressionistic)

The most telling part from that blog Morbius linked to above:

sean burns said...
#1. Rosenbaum does this every time somebody dies. I'm sure we all remember that Altman's body was still warm when he was already carrying on all over the place about how NASHVILLE wasn't as good as BOBBY. (I still laugh every time I type that.)

The first piece I ever read by Rosenbaum was trashing the then-recently departed Gene Siskel for, amongst other sins, enjoying basketball. <<

Haha. That's absurd. I don't think Jonathan Rosenbaum's life or work will be remembered for nearly as long as the f'makers he's dissing - and I actually like his stuff (like his alt. Top 100 American film list)

Liv Ullmann is 70.

http://daily.greencine.com/archives/007184.html

gratulerer med dagen!

I just rewatched the absolutely hysterical Bergman parody from the first season of Saturday Night Live and laughed harder than ever

D: The Seventh Seal,

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha....

Let's return to Elvis' question:

So what's the deal with The Serpent's Egg. Is it really that terrible? It seems to have dropped off the radar entirely.

Should I even bother?

an interesting take on the silence in comparison to the great muppet caper

o_O

>Classic: Fanny and Alexander (the Christmas portion, at any rate)

haha, does everyone just turn it off after the big christmas scene?

Ha -- the dullest part of the movie. I don't really start paying attention until the ogre stepfather piles on the horrors.

Anyway, revived cuz I checked S&T (Criterion) outta the library.

Ha, can't make it through that sequence because it drags on forever. Next time I will try Alfred's strategy

the TV version of Scenes From a Marriage is an improvement but it's still not a good film (there's a good Clive James review floating around somewhere). I couldn't accept those two together in the first place, and Ullmann's a drip.

The Best Intentions out on blu in June. Worth watching?

"An OK movie for public television" is what I thought at the time.

I actually ended up quite liking The Best Intentions, though the presentation is a bit polite for my tastes.

Mark Harris on Persona in his latest '67 lookback

https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisited-persona/

Rewatched Wild Strawberries this afternoon for clemenza's Road poll. Not only is it still great, but its numerous moments of humour and uplift remind me once again that anyone who calls Bergman's films depressing probably only knows them to the extent that they've read their plot synopses.

The ones I'd rewatch.. Still think Shame is special.

Looking forward to this!

A comprehensive INGMAR BERGMAN retrospective will be touring theaters in 2018 to celebrate his centenary! Featuring all-new restorations and rarely-screened gems. pic.twitter.com/Fcr62qqIeI

— Janus Films (@janusfilms) November 11, 2017

launching the centenary

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5242-the-daily-bergman100

centenary retrospective starts in my city next week, and it's going to run for TWO YEARS. wtf? not sure how they're doing it / if there will be multiple showings. only 30 films vs. the FF's 47. CRISIS is first up, didn't you see that one at the FF morbs? I remember a post you might've made something to the effect of "well... everyone has to start somewhere I guess."

the two years thing is blowing my mind. i'm sort of cross thinking i'll have to wait until 2019 to see Cries and Whispers in a theater.

no, I watched Crisis at home the other day; it's not good either, but there's a novelty in seeing him do a '40s melodrama with heavy stings of soundtrack music I guess.

Saw Port of Call tonight. Such a leap from Crisis, only 2 years later but with 3 films in between. Lots of stunning closeups, cool dolly shots moving between rooms, and one of those perfect, transcendent moments in every Bergman movie: early on, when the girl brings the guy home for the first time, she rebuffs him at first and leaves the room. it's the cut from a medium shot of them in one room to the closeup of her as she leaves, the camera now in the other room. Words obviously do no it no justice but I was really moved by that one moment.

was very moved by WILD STRAWBERRIES a couple of nights ago. Isak’s self-recognition in his mother and son after the conversation with his daughter in law just crushed me

Melvyn Bragg podcast on The Seventh Seal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmkx

that episode of In Our Time prompted a rewatch. not a single scene in that film that wouldn't make a decent poster.