BERGMAN TRIBUTE AT
CANADIAN FILM INSTITUTE |
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Summer with Monika, Wild Strawberries, The Silence, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander are screened at the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa (24 February-22 March). Check here for the schedule.
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| EVA DAHLBECK DIES AT 87 |
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Eva Dahlbeck, best remembered for her performances in Bergman comedies such as Smiles of a Summer Night, has died in Stockholm on 8 February at age 87. Read the Guardian and Washington Post obituaries.
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BERGMAN REMEMBERED
IN WASHINGTON |
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The first installment of a multi-part Bergman retrospective runs from 8 February to 4 March at the AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center in Washington. The schedule is available here.
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GÖTEBORG INTERNATIONAL
FILM FESTIVAL |
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The Göteborg International Film Festival presents an extensive Bergman festival from 1 January to 4 February 2008. Check
here the more information.
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ALEXANDER AHNDORIL'S
THE DIRECTOR |
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Alexander Ahndoril's 2006 novel Regissören, on Bergman's filming of Winter Light, is published in English as The Director in January 2008. Read Paul Binding's review in The Independent.
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| BERGMAN ON THE BIG SCREEN |
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Fanny and Alexander gets a limited run at the IFC Center (2-17 January), and the Harvard Film Archive presents a nine-film tribute (11-14 January).
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BERGMAN'S WIFE TO BE
REBURIED IN FÅRÖ |
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Ingmar Bergman's last wish will be fulfilled when the remains of his fifth and final wife are transferred to his grave on the Baltic Sea island of Fårö. Read the
AP report (25 October).
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| BERGMAN VS. HOLLYWOOD |
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Read Geoffrey Macnab's article in The Independent on the American studios' interest in Bergman at the height of his arthouse fame in the 1950s and 1960s.
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BERGMAN HONOURED IN
NEW STAMPS |
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The Swedish Post will issue two new stamps honouring Bergman in January 2008. One will feature Bergman directing a scene from
Fanny and Alexander, while the other will be a portrait of Bergman from 1998. Read the
AFP report.
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