Music, theater and dance are staples at UC Davis' Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts, and this month the 6-year-old center plans to add movies to the mix. Focus on Film, open to the public, is a ...

Ingmar Bergman has produced another tantalizing film. Hampered by a scenario (as usual, Bergman's own) that is full of tricks rather than the wisdom of Wild Strauberries or The Seventh Seal, The ...

Ingmar Bergman, undoubtedly one of the greatest directors the cinema has produced, is also one of the most critically appreciated, analyzed, and assessed artists. There are dozens of works written ...

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(See Cover) Wound in eye, blood in mouth, fingers off, neck broken. He calls you down, he calls you forth, beyond the dead, the living, the living dead. —The Magician A demon is haunting the movie ...

As this rereleased 1975 version shows, the opera was the perfect vehicle for Bergman’s combination of symbolism, seriousness and mischief Ingmar Bergman’s 1975 production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute, ...

In 1958, flush with the success of “Smiles of a Summer Night” and “Wild Strawberries,” Ingmar Bergman got his producer to back a project of great personal moment that reflected both his ongoing work ...

THANKS TO CRITERION’S restored, high-definition digital transfer, this 52-year-old black and white film looks absolutely luscious. Accompanied by many of Bergman’s tried and true cast members, “The ...

In this year of our lord 2018, when the entire world seems to be tottering on the precipice of geopolitical calamity and Mother Nature is doing her damnedest to drown and burn up as many of us as she ...