Ingmar Bergman News

Bestselling author Henning Mankell will write the script for one of the biggest drama projects ever done by Swedish public service company SVT, a TV-play in four episode about the influential film director Ingmar Bergman.

I hate 10-best lists, and this column won't include one. Trying to list everything that was great in the New York theater over the past decade, and then sweating to squeeze a mingy string of 10 items from it, would be futile as well as exhausting.

Henning Mankell is to write a drama series on the life of iconic director Ingmar Bergman.

Henning Mankell, author of the bestselling "Wallander" novels, is penning a four-part TV series on the life of Ingmar Bergman.

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Call it half a smile. The first Broadway revival of "A Little Night Music," the enchanting, moonstruck musical based on the Ingmar Bergman film "Smiles of a Summer Night," is a curious affair.

If you can't visit Sweden any time soon and/or want to see an interesting foreign film, start with Wild Strawberries , or Smultronstllet in it's original Swedish! It is a great film directed by the great Ingmar Bergman .

Cate Blanchett and Joel Edgerton in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Liv Ullmann 's production of Tennessee Williams 's "Streetcar Named Desire" is one of the hottest tickets in town.

Dir. Ingmar Bergman . This autumnal masterpiece, enhanced by Sven Nykvist 's masterful camerawork, represents Bergman at the peak of his artistry.

Stockholm - Like an Ingmar Bergman film, Sweden is dark. Last month though was exceptionally gloomy, as the country saw only a fraction of what little sunlight normally shines at this time of year, media said.

Dir. Ingmar Bergman Bergman responded to the innovations of the international avant-garde and the French new wave, dramatizing an actress's identity crisis as a crisis in cinematic representation; Godard acknowledged the older filmmaker's masterpiece by swiping a bit in Weekend .

Victor Sjostrom was one of the greatest directors of the silent era, and also a fine actor.

Dir. Ingmar Bergman . One of Bergman's weirdest, this surreal Gothic fantasy concerns an artist who vanishes, leaving only a diary through which we move into flashbacks and his nightmares and obsessions are revealed.

A major star of the Swedish cinema of the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Bibi Andersson was appearing on stage at Malmo when discovered by Ingmar Bergman, who was casting a 1951 Bris soap commercial.

After 21 albums, the idiosyncratic duo Sparks take a new direction with a fantasy radio musical about Ingmar Bergman.

Commissioned by Swedish National Public Radio to devise an original radio musical with Swedish language content, Sparks siblings Ron and Russell Mael have significantly transcended their brief with The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman, which has a resonance that goes some way beyond its parochial origins.

Ingmar Bergman never played the Starlite Drive-In. Neither did Fellini, for that matter.

For six decades, director Ingmar Bergman has been at the forefront of film and theater; since 1988, the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been the only American venue for many of his acclaimed theatrical productions.

The director's estate on Faro has been bought by a Norwegian inventor and will be turned into an artists' retreat Ingmar Bergman ... his estate and belongings will be kept together after all.