Ingmar Bergman
Winter SleepThursday, 20 November 2014
This year’s Palme d’Or winner at Cannes, Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter Sleep (Kiş Uykusu), is a monumental film. Not merely in its scale – though at 196 minutes, it certainly clocks in on that front – but in its emotional heft.It’s like... Read more... |
CD: Anushka - Broken CircuitTuesday, 08 July 2014
As dance music once more sweeps the mainstream, we're returned to the situation of the 1990s where singer and song can seem to become a little detached. Parades of “featured vocalists” deliver refrains for the producer teams who are queueing up to... Read more... |
DVD: Classic BergmanThursday, 07 June 2012
Only one of the five films in Artificial Eye’s selection is palpably a classic, a turning point in Ingmar Bergman’s early career. It’s flanked by curiosities spanning 11 of the master’s 59 years as a film-maker – two of them flaunting the beginner’s... Read more... |
Classical CDs Weekly: Adams, Beethoven, Berg, Debussy, SzymanowskiSaturday, 21 April 2012
John Adams: Harmonielehre, Short Ride in a Fast Machine San Francisco Symphony/Michael Tilson Thomas (SFS Media)John Adams’s expansive, hyperactive three-movement work emerges more powerfully than ever before in this live recording from San... Read more... |
theartsdesk in Fårö: Bergman's Swedish Dream IslandSunday, 11 July 2010
Fifty years ago this April, a city-loving film-maker already internationally famous for such masterpieces as The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries took the ferry from Gotland to the windswept, still snowy island of Fårö (the nearest we can... Read more... |
Through a Glass Darkly, Almeida TheatreThursday, 17 June 2010
Perhaps it's because the Almeida had a major hit with Festen (well, everywhere but Broadway) that the Scandinavian back catalogue of movies seems every bit as ripe for plunder as is mainstream Hollywood when it comes to feeding musicals on Broadway... Read more... |
DVD Release: The Best IntentionsSaturday, 15 May 2010
At long last it's here on DVD: the greatest Bergman movie the master didn't make, though he wrote the most meticulously detailed, 300-page screenplay-cum-novel (which covers all the events of the four-part Swedish TV miniseries rather than the much... Read more... |
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