Joseph Ornelas is a former freelance features writer at Collider, where he explored the worlds of film and television through in-depth essays, lists, and analysis. Passionate about storytelling across ...

Ingmar Bergman’s 1960 films, ‘The Virgin Spring’, or ‘Jungfrukallan’, as it is known in its native language, is an emotionally powerful film about loss, revenge, and ...

During the shooting of The Virgin Spring, we were up in the northern province of Dalarna in May and it was early one morning, about half past 7. The landscape there is rugged, and our company was ...

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 ...

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 ...

(Ingmar Bergman, 1960). One of the most powerful of the Swedish master’s disquisitions on “the silence of God,” this cruel tale of rape and revenge, set in medieval Sweden, when the population was ...

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 ...

Be that as it may, The Last House on the Left managed to defy its accusations of meritless smear and become not just a cult classic, but the herald to an era of more intellectual and auteur-driven ...

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 ...