Many are suspicious of his films. They seem too much Works of Art. Covered with dust, they are, at their worst, pieces already fit for museums, joyless items of Culture. In a decade that prizes ...

The Silence is so preoccupied with vice that its virtues are all but obscured. Written and directed by Sweden’s Ingmar Bergman, the film closes the ring of the trilogy that began with Through a Glass ...

Most of them are as dark as they come. The Scandi Noir that has flooded our screens in the last few years is black in its own way, and despair is seldom absent from it, but "Bergman noir" is something ...

Winter Light. Sweden’s cinematic poltergeist, Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, once more haunts the dark and chilly corridors where Man loses God, and once more the soul in torment seems to be his own.

Ghosts haunt the house Marianne has just entered. Doors slam shut without warning or visible agent; a cuckoo clock breaks the silence with its bizarre chimes and chirps. The middle-aged woman survives ...

Ingmar Bergman directed more than 50 features, but he was a significant figure in 20th-century culture in part because he was so obviously significant. Last week’s inch-above-the-fold front-page New ...

STOCKHOLM — Ingmar Bergman’s ghostly presence permeates the Royal Dramatic Theater here, where he directed dozens of plays over decades. So much so that when I got stuck in an elevator for 30 minutes ...

Bergman’s journey to the underworld is full of horror, but done with a subtlety that avoids the literalism of vampires and the thrill of murder and monsters in the dark. The horror is closer to home ...