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All Stories for Ingmar Bergman
Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita depicts the suicide of an intellectual, and the death of everything he stands for
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoTwo words have dominated the conversations — in the media, on social media, and all around us — in the entertainment beat this week: “suicide” and “depression”.
After a week of grief, remembering Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After Life, which promises a happy eternity
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoAt a time we are surrounded by mortal fear (and we’ve just lost two of our most beloved actors), it’s perhaps natural that the mind drifts towards death, which has inspired some of the most inventive cinematic narratives.
Game of Thrones' Three-Eyed Raven, Max von Sydow, passes aways aged 90 in France
• 5 years agoMax Von Sydow made his Hollywood debut as Jesus in the 1965 film The Greatest Story Ever Told, but gained widespread international fame as the devil-evicting priest in William Friedkin’s controversial 1973 film The Exorcist
Hany Abu-Assad, Asghar Farhadi, Ingmar Bergman's films expose challenges of working in languages other than your own
Baradwaj Rangan • 5 years agoThe last film by Hany Abu-Assad, Head of the Jury, International Competition at Jio MAMI 21st Mumbai Film Festival received with a modest shrug.
Bibi Andersson and Ingmar Bergman: Revisiting one of cinema's most fruitful actor-director collaborations
Prahlad Srihari • 6 years agoBibi Andersson and Ingmar Bergman worked together on 13 films, including such masterpieces as The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Persona (1966) and Scenes from a Marriage (1973).
Bibi Andersson's only major award for her indelible work with Ingmar Bergman was at Cannes for Brink of Life
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoAndersson was just 27 when she acted in Brink of Life. Even at that young age, and even when the lines take a dramatic turn, you find this no-fuss, no-sentimentality quality.
Bibi Andersson, Swedish actress who starred in Ingmar Bergman’s Persona and The Seventh Seal, dies at 83
• 6 years agoSwedish actress Bibi Andersson, best known for her roles in legendary director Ingmar Bergman’s films, died on 14 April aged 83
Berlinale 2019: The important collaboration of Francois Ozon and Charlotte Rampling, recipient of Golden Bear
Baradwaj Rangan • 6 years agoUnder the Sand will be screened in the Homage section at Berlinale 2019, along with another (and more popular) Ozon-Rampling collaboration, Swimming Pool.
Roma: Alfonso Cuarón has developed into an able craftsman but does not have anything of significance to say
Mk Raghavendra • 6 years agoWhat critics respond to most is the look of a film and it is only in its ‘look’ that Roma comes up trumps; still, the look of a film is not something it is long remembered by.
IFFI 2018: Sridevi, Shashi Kapoor, Vinod Khanna to be honoured with special screenings of their films
• 6 years agoIFFI, to be held from 20 to 28 November in Goa, will be showcasing 212 films this year.