Bergman Collection

"I perform conjuring tricks with a conjuring apparatus so expensive and so wonderful that any performer in history would have given anything to use it. I am really a conjurer, and in my work I am guilty of deceit." said Ingmar Bergman in an interview given to 'Time' magazine in 1960. For those who want to remember Bergman at his finest, you may want to revisit 'The Seventh Seal' or 'Smiles of a Summer Night'. His 'Cries and Whispers' stands out as unusual because it was nominated for 'Best Picture', not for Best Foreign Language Film at the Oscars. If you are interested in how Bergman has inspired and influenced some of the most interesting contemporary filmmakers, see 'The Taste of Tea' with a psychedelic twist on Ingmar Bergman's Fanny & Alexander or 'Sun Ra - Space Is The Place' that blends 1950s sci-fi, '70s Blaxploitation, and Ingmar Bergman's 'The Seventh Seal' in an intense, provocative mix. Or enjoy 'Light Keeps Me Company', a documentary on Sven Nykvist, known primarily as the man who photographed many of Ingmar Bergman's classics and won an Academy award for 'Best Cinematography' for 'The Virgin Spring' in 1959.

Smultronstället (Wild Strwaberries) WILD STRAWBERRIES is among Ingmar Bergman's most rich and contemplative films, a lyrical reflection on guilt…   more  Cries and Whispers This film is about the elemental things: death and dying, sex, injury, repression, and the body as a fount…   more  Fanny and Alexander Director Ingmar Bergman had intended FANNY AND ALEXANDER to be his final theatrical film and a summing-up…   more    Ingmar Bergman Trilogy This collection includes three of Bergman's greatest works, THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY (1961), WINTER LIGHT (1962)…   more  The Seventh Seal An allegory on man's search for meaning. Von Sydow stars as a medieval knight returning from the Crusades…   more  Smiles of a Summer Night This classic Ingmar Bergman comedy follows an ensemble of aristocrats as they gather for a weekend party at…   more    Sun Ra - Space is the Place A jazz innovator for decades, Sun Ra created a sound that could easily have come from his home planet--Saturn…   more  Light Keeps Me Company Sven Nykvist is one of the most respected cinematographers in the history of world cinema. Among his 123 film…   more  The Taste of Tea Director Katsuhito Ishii pays homage to Yasiujiro Ozu with this psychedelic twist on Ingmar Bergman's FANNY…   more