Year of the Month: David Heineman on THE VIRGIN SPRING
Bergman’s The Virgin Spring: In many respects, writing about an Ingmar Bergman film is a…
The Friday Article Roundup Sets the Mood
How we feeling today, Solutors? Feeling sexy? There are people to help coordinate. Feeling cautiously…
Year of the Month: FANNY AND ALEXANDER
Christmastime is here! Christmastime is here! Soon it will be Easter! That’s not true, of…
Year of the Month: Autumn Sonata: Bergman’s Last Song by Jacob Thomas Klemmer
Late in the first act of Autumn Sonata, Ingrid Bergman and Liv Ullman discuss…
Year of the Month: The Seventh Seal by Scott Broussard (scb0212)
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact…
Halloween Psych-Out – Part 8: THE HOUR OF THE WOLF
It’s long been standard practice to write music for horror films that features an evilly…
The Year in Review: Revisiting the Late 60s
If, as I wrote in last year’s review, that the early 60s were in vogue…
A Woman Over the Influence: QUEEN OF EARTH
There’s a scene in Love Streams (1984), written and directed by John Cassavetes, where someone…
Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 3: PERSONA
In Persona, written and directed by Ingmar Bergman in 1966, a sharp rebuke is offered…