Shame Hamish Ford March 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the late 1960s Ingmar Bergman was not a particularly fashionable figure, despite having made the astonishing and experimental Persona in 1966 (now one of the most respected films of postwar European cinema)....
On Saraband Afshin Forghani December 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Prelude “Saraband” is a mournful, heart-wrenching piece of music. It came about during the very short period of time that Bach was free from any religious responsibility in Köthen. In this relaxing, fruitful p...
Private Confessions Sarah Nichols September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In preparation for writing about Liv Ullmann’s Enskilda Samtal (Private Confessions, 1996), I took the opportunity to watch Ingmar Bergman’s Nattvardsgästerna (Winter Light, 1963) and Scener ur ett äktenskap (S...
Faithless Carlota Larrea September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Wendy Everett considers nostalgia and self-reflexivity as two distinctive features of European art cinema, and the exploration of subjectivity and the writing and rewriting of the self as its main preoccupation...
The Kids Are Not All Right: Fanny and Alexander Thirty Years Later Marc Saint-Cyr December 2012 Feature Articles As an elaborately constructed, compulsively watchable piece of large-scale fiction made for the screen, Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) is an achievement with few equals even in this new golden era of...
Smiles of a Summer Night Pedro Blas Gonzalez March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sommarnattens leende/Smiles of a Summer Night (1955 Sweden 108 mins) Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: Gunnar Fischer Ed: Oscar Rosander Prod Des: P.A. Lundg...
The Silence Hamish Ford March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Tystnaden/The Silence (1963 Sweden 96 mins) Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri (SF) Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: Sven Nykvist Ed: Ulla Ryghe Art Dir: P. A. Lundgren Mus: Ivan Renliden ...
The Seventh Seal Darragh O’Donoghue March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Det Sjunde inseglet/The Seventh Seal (1957 Sweden 96 mins) Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: Gunnar Fischer Ed: Lennart Wallén Prod Des: P.A. Lundgren Mus: E...
The Child Archetype in Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander Arthur Rankin March 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fanny and Alexander (1982 Sweden/France/West Germany 188 mins) Prod Co: Cinematograph Prod: Jörn Donner Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: Sven Nykvist Ed: Sylvia Ingemarsson Art Dir: Anna Asp Mus: Daniel Be...
Winter Light Dan Harper February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Winter Light/Nattvardsgasterna (1963 Sweden 81 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: Sven Nykvist Ed: Ulla Ryghe Art Dir: P.A. Lun...
The Virgin Spring Martyn Bamber October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) (1960 Sweden 88 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Ingmar Bergman, Allan Ekelund (Uncredited) Dir: Ingmar Bergman Screenplay: Ulla Isaksso...