Cinema
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“Scenes from a Marriage” — Days with Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give
Scenes from a MarriageTelevision miniseries about the breakdown of a marriage that sent Sweden’s divorce rate soaring. “It took two and a half months to write these scenes; it took a whole adult life to live.”Ingmar Bergman On 27 March 1972 Ingmar Bergman wrote in his workbook: ‘Here’s something we can do for the fun…
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“Through a Glass Darkly” — Days with Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give
The great subject of the cinema, Ingmar Bergman believed, is the human face. He’d been watching Antonioni on television, he told me during an interview, and realized it wasn’t what Antonioni said that absorbed him, but the man’s face. Bergman was not thinking about anything as simple as a closeup, I believe. He was thinking…
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“Cries and Whispers” — Days with Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give
‘Cries and Whispers” envelops us in a tomb of dread, pain and hate, and to counter these powerful feelings it summons selfless love. It is, I think, Ingmar Bergman’s way of treating his own self-disgust, and his envy of those who have faith. His story, which takes place inside a Swedish manor house on the…
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“The Silence” — Days with Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give
Two women, Anna and Ester, accompanied by Johan, Anna’s ten-year-old-son, travel slowly through the night by train into a foreign country that seems to be at war. They are sisters, it will turn out, perhaps lovers. We will never discover the reason for their journey, to a place where the inhabitants, the culture, and the…
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Ingmar Bergman — Preliminares a su cumpleaños
Biografía Hijo de Karin y Erik Bergman, Ingmar nació el 14 de julio 1918 en Uppsala, Suecia.Segundo hijo de la joven pareja, sufrió desde sus primeros días graves problemas de salud. Ante el temor por la frágil supervivencia del pequeño, su abuela lo acogió en su casa de Dalecarlia, donde poco a poco Ingmar recuperó…
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Ingmar Bergman *VII 14 1918 / The Life You Give (Preliminaries)
Please, bear with me as I repeat something I must repeat. While living in the lively and artistic city of Liège, Belgium, (1995-2000) swimming, soaring and diving into questions and thoughts on what it means to be a human, and furthering artistic concepts around the topic of the process of dying, one conclusion appeared with…
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Orson Welles *V 6 1915 — The Life You Give
Orson Welles, born George Orson Welles, May 6, 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, U.S.A., is the motion-picture actor, director, producer, and write who’s innovative narrative techniques and use of photography, dramatic lighting, and music to further the dramatic line and to create mood made his Citizen Kane (1941)—which he wrote, directed, produced, and acted in—one of the…
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Akira Kurosawa *III 23 1910 — The Life You Give
Kurosawa Akira, born March 23, 1910, in Tokyo, Japan, was the first Japanese film director to win international acclaim, with such films as Rashomon (1950), Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), Kagemusha (1980), and Ran (1985). Kurosawa’s father, who had once been an army officer, was a teacher who contributed to the…
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Have we missed something important?
– Johan? Have we missed something important? – All of us? – No, you and I. – What would that be? – At times I can read your mind, and I feel such tenderness that I forget myself. Without having to efface myself. It’s a new sensation. Do you understand. – I understand. – Johan?…
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Luis Buñuel *II 22 1900 — La vida que das
Luis Buñuel, nacido en febrero 22, 1900, fue director de cine, y una de las grandes figuras de la historia del cine. Su padre, Leonardo Manuel Buñuel, fue un indiano fantasioso que regresó de Cuba enriquecido y se instaló en Calanda; solía relatar numerosas aventuras ilusorias a los lugareños y afirmaba con bravuconería que sería…
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David Lynch *I 20 1946 — The Life You Give
David Lynch, born David Keith Lynch, January 20, 1946, Missoula, Montana, U.S.A., is the filmmaker and screenwriter known for his uniquely disturbing and mind-bending visual work. His films juxtapose the cheerfully mundane with the shockingly macabre and often defy explanation. Lynch’s father was a research scientist with the U.S. Forest Service, and the family moved…
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The Man Who Fell to Earth /
“The Man Who Fell to Earth” 1976 Directed by Nicolas Roeg, Screenplay by Paul Mayersberg, based on the novel by Walter Tevis A strange creature from another planet falls to earth. His arrival is seen by a mysterious observer. Is the witness a CIA agent, a scientist, a psychic, or a believer in extraterrestrial beings?…
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“Labyrinth”, with David Bowie
The Labyrinth (allegory) The labyrinth in the film is an allegory for coming of age and entering the world of adulthood. Initially, Sarah is portrayed as a character in a fairy tale until it is revealed that she is indeed a regular teenage girl in contemporary society. As such, the film demonstrates that she still…
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“Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence” — David Bowie Cinema Celebration
Imagine this. You’re a tired and hungry soldier, laying down on a dirty cot. Above you, a tin roof with bamboo rafters and palm leaves stitched together as a makeshift wall. It’s late at night, but you can hear various lizards scurrying about the walls as the humid island heat beats upon your already sweat-coated…
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Emir Kusturica *XI 24 1954 — The Life You Give
Emir Kusturica, born November 24, 1954, in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia [now in Bosnia and Herzegovina]), is the motion picture director, screenwriter, actor, and producer who was one of the most-distinguished European filmmakers since the mid-1980s, best known for surreal and naturalistic movies that express deep sympathies for people from the margins. Kusturica, who made notable short…
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