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Ingmar's oeuvre, film by film.
Music in Darkness (1948)
The next two films on my list were Man with an Umbrella (1946) and A Ship Bound for India (1947). They came out on DVD earlier this year, as did So Close to Life (1958). Each costs just £9 in Sweden, so I plan to buy them when I’m over there in a couple of […]
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Help me find these Bergman films
December 19, 2010
There are some Bergman films that I can’t find anywhere. If you happen to know where I can get my hands on any of them, please let me know. I’m happy to rent, buy, swap or borrow. Any format works for me — DVD, VHS, whatever. The movies I’m trying to track down are: This […]
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Frenzy (1944)
December 16, 2010
Ingmar Bergman was ‘script girl’ on Frenzy. He didn’t direct the film (the director was Alf Sjöberg) so it isn’t strictly one of the 39 that I want to see in the course of writing this blog. But it was Bergman’s screenplay, and since I’m working through his early career anyway, I figured that I […]
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Crisis (1946)
December 6, 2010
And so it begins… Last night I rewatched the first of the 39 movies on my list. But don’t get too excited — I’m trying to work through Bergman’s movies in the order in which they were made, and his earlier films are nowhere near as interesting as his later films. Crisis (1946) really isn’t […]
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The Bergman 39 challenge
November 25, 2010
Hello! On average I watch a film every two days (I keep a count on my Twitter profile), but to date nobody’s films have moved me as deeply as Ingmar Bergman’s. And nobody’s films have made me consider the world on the same intellectual plane. I realise that sounds pretentious, and sometimes Bergman’s films are […]
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The Bergman 39 
December 19, 2010
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