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The Compleat Ingmar #40: Fanny and Alexander (theatrical version) (1982)

Jan 14, 2023Jan 14, 2023MattLeave a comment

So, here we are. The last of the stations on my travels with Ingmar. (Or not, as there are some epiloguy bits to follow.) The theatrical version of Fanny and Alexander, about a month after having watched the TV series…

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The Compleat Ingmar #39: Fanny and Alexander (TV series) (1982)

Dec 20, 2022Dec 19, 2022Matt3 Comments

We’re almost at the end of this journey. I’ve now, for the first time, watched the TV version of Ingmar Bergman Fanny and Alexander, and only the film version is left. It’s a fitting time for this, as Fanny and…

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The Compleat Ingmar #38: Autumn Sonata (1978)

Oct 4, 2022Oct 4, 2022Matt1 Comment

Is it fair to say that Ingmar Bergman was his own greatest rival? There are a number of films in his filmography that are good, interesting films featuring strong performances – but when you watch them, you think of other,…

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The Compleat Ingmar #37: Brink of Life (1958)

Aug 30, 2022Aug 30, 2022Matt1 Comment

One of the things Ingmar Bergman is famous for is the great parts for women in his films, and consequently his work with great actresses. So many of the films feature complex roles for women, and while Bergman must often…

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The Compleat Ingmar #36: Waiting Women (1952)

Aug 3, 2022Aug 2, 2022Matt2 Comments

There have been times over the course of Criterion’s Bergman collection where I couldn’t really say why they went from this film to that one, but those instances have very much been an exception. Obviously a chronological sequence would’ve been…

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The Compleat Ingmar #35: Cries and Whispers (1972)

Jul 14, 2022Jul 15, 2022Matt3 Comments

While the supposed heaviness of Bergman’s filmography is frequently exaggerated (or am I the only one who finds The Seventh Seal with its snarky Death entertaining, even if the film undoubtedly isn’t a laugh riot beginning to end?), it is…

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The Compleat Ingmar #34: Port of Call (1948)

Jun 21, 2022Jun 19, 2022Matt3 Comments

Port of Call doesn’t make a great first impression. In the context of Bergman’s complete oeuvre (if movie watching had a progress bar, we’d be somewhere between 80% and 90% through his filmography), its first fifteen, twenty minutes or so…

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The Compleat Ingmar #33: Thirst (1949)

Jun 8, 2022Jun 8, 2022Matt2 Comments

It’s a difficult act to follow Persona, and Criterion probably made the right choice when it decided to follow Bergman’s monolithic masterpiece with a number of his earlier, smaller films, in which he was trying to find his voice as…

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The Compleat Ingmar #32: Persona (1966)

Apr 16, 2022Matt5 Comments

And here we are: perhaps the film by Ingmar Bergman that is most famous, apart from The Seventh Seal, and probably the one most written about in film studies. Persona may not be as immediately iconic as the film that…

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The Compleat Ingmar #31: The Serpent’s Egg (1977)

Mar 26, 2022Apr 16, 2022Matt1 Comment

Get ready for Bergmanception: you know how Woody Allen has long been a big Bergman fan and how many of his films are clearly inspired by Bergman’s? Well, the beginning of The Serpent’s Egg feels a bit like Bergman got…

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