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JUL 11, 2009 - THE PLOT OF PERSONA IS SIMPLICITY ITSELF. Elisabeth Vogler , a theatre star, stops speaking during a performance of Electra ; Alma is commissioned to nurse her back to normalcy on an island retreat.

Genre: Period Drama Directed by: Jan Troell Starring: Maria Heiskanen, Mikael Persbrandt, Jesper Christensen, Emil Jensen, Ghita Norby It's hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early 1970s - an era a little more open to foreign-language and "artsy" films in the mainstream - when Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell was considered almost in the ...

The Ibsen Award , worth about $500,000, has just been given to director Ariane Mnouchkine.

The evening gowns glittered, the red carpet was unfurled - and the 3-D glasses were at hand as the 62nd Cannes Film Festival opened Wednesday.

EMOTIONS will run high tomorrow as celebs join survivors at the National Meningitis Association Benefit.

Film buffs are about to reap a bonanza as Warner Brothers begins offering custom made DVDs.

Fresh Air from WHYY , March 13, 2009 The 77-year-old Swedish filmmaker Jan Troell is best known in the U.S. for his pair of 1970s epics The Emigrants and The New Land, which starred Max von Sydow and Liv ...

Swedish director Jan Troell doesn't take Hollywood and its awards very seriously.

It appears Pope Joan's time has come; of course, it only took 1,154 years from the time of her death by stoning in 855.

Ingmar Bergman's sequel to Scenes from a Marriage , after an unprecedented interval of thirty years, emerges not just as a relative trifle, but also as a less than legitimate sequel.

The ground is covered with a layer of snow, under that a slippery-thick layer of ice, and North Jersey looks about as much like the suburbs of Stockholm as it's ever going to.

Actress and director Liv Ullmann turns 70 today. A few days ago, she wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe , and she might appreciate it if this is how we begin: As the global financial and economic crisis ...

Comments TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS 12/16/08 Nick Ut Writer-producer Steven Bochco is 65.