Thursday, May 25, 2006

still from 'Through A Glass Darkly' by Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman site now launched in English.
There are some great things on this site if you hunt around, including videos, interviews, and images (in the Media links for individual films). I was interested to discover that, for the 1994 Göteborg Film Festival, Bergman chose his eleven (why eleven?) favourite films:
The Circus (Charlie Chaplin, USA 1928)
Quai des Brûmes, (Marcel Carné, France 1938)
Orchestra Conductor (Andrzej Wajda, Poland 1979)
Raven's End (Bo Widerberg, Sweden 1963)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Dreyer, France 1927)
The Phantom Carriage (Victor Sjöström, Sweden 1921)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, Japan 1951)
La Strada (Federico Fellini, Italy 1954)
Sunset Boulevard (Billy Wilder, USA 1950)
The German Sisters (Margarethe von Trotta, BRD 1981)
Andrei Rublov (Andrej Tarkovskij, Soviet Union 1969)
I would probably have a couple of these in my top eleven - La Strada and Andrei Rublov - although I haven't seen all the others.