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The Seventh Seal

It’s fitting that for Criterion’s sterling new edition of...  read more

Antonioni & Bergman

When two of the greatest filmmakers in history improbably died within 24 hours of each other on July 30, 2007, a sad, almost painful, realization dawned on cinephiles worldwide: There will be no more films from Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman...  read more

Ingmar Bergman dies at age 89

Ingmar Bergman, the greatest Swedish director and one of the hallmarks of art cinema theaters for the past 50 years, died earlier this morning at his Faro island home near the coast of Sweden. A cause of death is not yet known but it's believed to have been from natural causes related to his age. Bergman was noted for bringing a personal, almost novelistic quality to films previously unknown. While he had been directing plays and even some films for several years at the time, his breakthrough came in 1950 with Summer Interlude (Sommarlek). With this effort, telling the story...  read more

On Being Human

When in conversation, people rarely hold each other’s gaze for more than a few seconds. There’s an intimacy in eye contact that’s typically too intense for us...  read more