On the surface, Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" might seem like a parody of Swedish art films -- a moody, insular drama filled with extended silences, repressed emotions and existential despair. It ...

The art of film, it is often said, begins at the point where human speech fails. Moving pictures, married to sound and music, enable us to enter worlds beyond the reach of words alone. For the veteran ...

Persona ending explained explores whether Alma and Elisabet become one, what the motherhood monologue means, and why Bergman ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Perhaps you remember The Dove, a 1974 short film parodying the works of Ingmar Bergman. Directed by George Coe and Anthony Lover, the film pays loving, playful and humorous homage to Bergman’s ...

With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar The history of ...