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 Tip of the Week Bergman Directs
And how! Ingmar Bergman's movies are the kind of adult joys that suffer
from being taught in high school and college courses, or even in the
1970s-type festivals that Woody Allen's characters used to gloom over
during his funny period. They're the kind of intently neurotic,
self-critical, self-abasing works of art that ought to be discovered on
one's own terms. Despite the beardy likes of Leonard Maltin, who's
squibbed on the Music Box calendar as saying Bergman is "one of the
most important artists of the modern cinema!" it's just as important
to
consider that Bergman is one of the most important human beings
of cinema. Consider just the rich variety on view on Southport this
week: the shattering breakdowns and blurring of identities of
"Persona"; the sexual rivalries in "The Seventh Seal"; the
mother-daughter excoriations of "Autumn Sonata"; the fierce, poetic
fear and dreams of "Cries and Whispers"; the melancholy of time passed
in "Wild Strawberries"; the bittersweet family celebration of "Fanny
and Alexander." You can see any of this stuff of DVD, but it's
glorious
on the big screen, along with "The Virgin Spring," "The Magician,"
"The Magic Flute" and "Smiles of a Summer Night." "Bergman Directs" plays this week at the Music Box; see listings
for showtimes.
Also by Ray Pride Tip of the Week
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Short takes
Off Camera
DVD Tips
Home alone
DVD Tips
The gift of reality
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The human face
Tip of the Week
Tip of the Week
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