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 ...
Stellan Skarsgård opened up about working with Ingmar Bergman at Karlovy Vary Film Festival. “My complicated relationship with Bergman has to do with him not being a very nice guy. He was a nice ...
There are no comedies here – late mid-life brought out the full darkness of the Swedish director’s palette – although Fanny and Alexander both delights and shocks as it combines a characteristic ...
Kupferberg shows how she used to splice movie films. Every field of study has its centers of interest and its North Stars of innovation and creativity. For film lovers, there are many names that, ...
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 ...
Liv Ullmann's life and career is the subject of the new documentary series, Liv Ullman: A Road Less Travelled. (Photo Getty Images) "Garbo started to run and I ran after her," Ullmann confesses, ...
Malou Von Sivers is the hostess of a popular Swedish talk show in which she quizzes famous people about their public and private lives. Through the noted Swedish actor Erland Josephson, Malou extended ...
The year is 1961 and Ingmar Bergman is making a movie. While planted on the scene as apprentice to Bergman, Vilgot Sjöman (director, I Am Curious–Yellow, 1967), suggests to Swedish Television that ...
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 ...