Ingmar Bergman is one of the greatest of modern directors, but he’s also an instant object of comedy because of his incidental association with Woody Allen, America’s leading Bergmaniac. That ...

"He almost works out his own problems onscreen and invites us, the audience, to be part of that solving process." The speaker is Ingmar Bergman biographer Peter Cowie, and the subject is the Swedish ...

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 ...

After watching the final cut of The Silence in advance of its release in the fall of 1963, the movie’s writer-director Ingmar Bergman turned to the head of the Swedish Film Industry Film Institute, ...

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 ...

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.

"He almost works out his own problems onscreen and invites us, the audience, to be part of that solving process." The speaker is Ingmar Bergman biographer Peter Cowie, and the subject is the Swedish ...