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What's your favorite Ingmar Bergman film?

Crisis (1946)
0 (0%)
It Rains on Our Love (1946)
0 (0%)
A Ship Bound for India (1947)
0 (0%)
Music in Darkness (1948)
0 (0%)
Port of Call (1948)
0 (0%)
Prison (1949)
0 (0%)
Thirst (1949)
0 (0%)
To Joy (1950)
0 (0%)
High Tension (1950)
0 (0%)
Summer Interlude (1951)
0 (0%)
Secrets of Women (1952)
0 (0%)
Summer with Monika (1953)
1 (1.9%)
Sawdust and Tinsel/The Naked Night (1953)
0 (0%)
A Lesson in Love (1954)
0 (0%)
Dreams (1955)
0 (0%)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955)
0 (0%)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
12 (22.6%)
Wild Strawberries (1957)
8 (15.1%)
Brink of Life (1958)
0 (0%)
The Magician/The Face (1958)
0 (0%)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
2 (3.8%)
The Devil's Eye (1960)
0 (0%)
Through a Glass Darkly (1961)
2 (3.8%)
Winter Light (1963)
2 (3.8%)
The Silence (1963)
0 (0%)
All These Women (1964)
0 (0%)
Persona (1966)
7 (13.2%)
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
1 (1.9%)
Shame (1968)
1 (1.9%)
The Rite (1969)
0 (0%)
The Passion of Anna (1969)
0 (0%)
Fårödokument 1969 (1970)
0 (0%)
The Touch (1971)
0 (0%)
Cries and Whispers (1972)
2 (3.8%)
Scenes from a Marriage (1973)
4 (7.5%)
The Magic Flute (1975)
0 (0%)
Face to Face (1976)
0 (0%)
The Serpent's Egg (1977)
0 (0%)
Autumn Sonata (1978)
1 (1.9%)
Fårö-dokument 1979 (1979)
0 (0%)
From the Life of the Marionettes (1980)
0 (0%)
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
6 (11.3%)
After the Rehearsal (1984)
0 (0%)
The Making of Fanny and Alexander (1986)
0 (0%)
Markisinnan de Sade (1992)
0 (0%)
The Last Gasp (1995)
0 (0%)
In the Presence of a Clown (1997)
0 (0%)
The Image Makers (2000)
0 (0%)
Saraband (2003)
0 (0%)
haven't seen any
4 (7.5%)
don't like any
0 (0%)

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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #70 on: April 17, 2016, 06:53:47 AM »
The Seventh Seal (4)
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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #71 on: May 31, 2016, 11:55:03 AM »
1. The Seventh Seal (4)
2. Scenes From a Marriage (4)
3. Wild Strawberries (4)
4. Persona (3.5)
5. Fanny and Alexander (3.5)
6. Smiles of a Summer Night (3.5)
7. The Virgin Spring (3.5)
8. Cries and Whispers (2.5)
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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #72 on: December 06, 2016, 12:46:37 PM »
Fanny och Alexander / Fanny and Alexander
Persona
Smultronstället / Wild Strawberries
Viskningar och rop / Cries and Whispers
Sommarnattens leende / Smiles of a Summer Night
Nattvardsgästerna / Winter Light
Det sjunde inseglet / The Seventh Seal
Skammen / Shame
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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #73 on: December 11, 2016, 01:48:37 AM »
Now that's a successful marathon.  And great reviews, too.
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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #74 on: December 15, 2016, 01:35:25 AM »
Fanny & Alexander, 80°
Shame, 75°
Persona, 60°
Wild Strawberries, 45°
Winter Light, 40°
The Seventh Seal, 40°
All These Women, 40°
The Silence, 35°
Scenes From A Marriage, 35°
Autumn Sonata, 35°
The Magician,30°
All These Women, 25°
A Lesson In Love, 25°
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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #75 on: May 08, 2017, 01:56:04 AM »
Choosing only 1 for my favorite director hurts, but I have to go with Winter Light. Here's how I rank the 20 I've seen.

1. Winter Light
2. Autuman Sonata
3. Persona
4. Cries and Whispers
5. The Seventh Seal
6. Fanny and Alexander
7. Scenes from a Marriage
8. Through a Glass Darkly
9. The Silence
10. The Virgin Spring
11. Hour of the Wolf
12. Shame
13. Wild Strawberries
14. Smiles of a Summer Night
15. The Passion of Anna
16. Summer Interlude
17. Summer with Monika
18. Sawdust and Tinsel
19. The Magician
20. Thirst

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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #76 on: March 19, 2018, 12:47:30 AM »
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Summer Interlude (1951)
★ ★ ★ – Good
I thought I would be the first to say this film evoked similar feelings to Call Me By Your Name, but Letterboxd beat me by a week. Leave it to Bergman to tell a story that largely drifts on the smooth waters of dreamy romance, only to layer in lots of thought provoking ideas in the final section, making it about three key relationships with complicated affections, four if you count Marie’s brief words to God (and with Bergman how could you not.) Seems to recycle ideas from Bergman’s other “Summer” movies as well as Wild Strawberries, but I’m not expert enough to comment further on it. Juts interested to learn how often the director returns to the same types of stories.


The Magician (1958)
★ ★ ★ – Okay
I always approach Bergman wondering how heavy the film will be, but this is perhaps his most enjoyable. It’s not like he’s never made a breezy film, but even Smiles on a Summer Night is mostly bittersweet. This takes the battle of science vs. faith and presents it like a con game, with delights instead of introspection. How strange that my big complaint is a lack of depth, which makes this more a collection of good scenes that leave me kind of wanting a more thoughtful movie.


Face to Face (1976)
★ ★
A complete Director Marathon would be interesting here to chart the progression that lead to Cries and Whispers and Scenes From a Marriage followed by an uneven batch that includes this title. (I had to at least know if people were watching this like me, with the relationship between Liv Ullmann and Erland Josephson coming after Marriage. It brings some baggage that took a few minutes to get past.)

Considering this deals in madness, which Bergman has covered many times before, it leaves me even more curious what he was attempting this time, because the results really miss. He seemed to be scraping the remaining batter from his brain with any drip of an idea potentially unexplored. It becomes all about Ullmann, who puts everything into this just short of Isabelle Adjani in Possession. It starts understated and mostly lands in a good place, but over-cranks the hysteria for a bit.

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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #77 on: March 19, 2018, 11:43:12 AM »
I've got The Magician here waiting to be watched. I'm interested in what a fun Bergman movie feels like.
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« Reply #78 on: March 19, 2018, 12:18:57 PM »
Now I’m starting to worry that I oversold that aspect. It’s not Ocean’s 11.

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Re: Bergman, Ingmar
« Reply #79 on: March 19, 2018, 12:28:03 PM »
No, I figured it wasn't quite at that level. I'm into the con game aspect too. I think it's interesting to see a director ask the same questions in different ways. This sounds like a cool version of that.
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