"An OK movie for public television" is what I thought at the time.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2016 00:24 (seven years ago) link
I actually ended up quite liking The Best Intentions, though the presentation is a bit polite for my tastes.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 30 August 2016 00:31 (seven years ago) link
Mark Harris on Persona in his latest '67 lookback
https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/cinema-67-revisited-persona/
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2017 22:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Monday, 1 May 2017 02:27 (six years ago) link
The ones I'd rewatch.. Still think Shame is special.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 16 November 2017 06:57 (six years ago) link
launching the centenary
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5242-the-daily-bergman100
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 4 January 2018 16:01 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:45 (six years ago) link
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.
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 March 2018 17:51 (six years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 24 April 2018 06:16 (five years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Thursday, 19 October 2023 04:05 (six months ago) link
Melvyn Bragg podcast on The Seventh Seal: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001qmkx
― Zelda Zonk, Thursday, 19 October 2023 04:13 (six months ago) link
that episode of In Our Time prompted a rewatch. not a single scene in that film that wouldn't make a decent poster.
― koogs, Thursday, 19 October 2023 08:15 (six months ago) link