On the surface, Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" might seem like a parody of Swedish art films -- a moody, insular drama filled with extended silences, repressed emotions and existential despair. It ...

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died Monday at age 89, was not merely the most influential Scandinavian filmmaker in history, he was the very embodiment of the idea that a film artist could work ...

Best Video went big with its newest film series Tuesday night, bringing the first of three films by legendary Swedish director Ingmar Bergman to a welcoming crowd. The series opened with Through A ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar The history of ...

With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar When Halfdan ...

The mark of a good critical biography is that it sends you back to the work with fresh perspectives and renewed curiosity. That Peter Cowie’s “God and the Devil: The Life and Work of Ingmar Bergman” ...