2018 is the centennial year of Ingmar Bergman, Sweden’s most important cultural figure since Strindberg and arguably the one figure who has raised film to the level of the greatest art forms. There are festivals [ Read Article ]
Andrei Tarkovsky, the exact contemporary of the French filmmaker Francois Truffaut (1932-1986), made only seven feature films in his thirty-year career, but their prestige has elevated him to almost mythical status. Ingmar Bergman called him [ Read Article ]
Clint Eastwood is nothing if not unpredictable. His latest film, J. Edgar, is an old-fashioned Hollywood biopic shot at a leisured pace—two hours and seventeen minutes—with polished production values and meticulous attention to period detail. [ Read Article ]
Woody Allen, that hardy perennial, returns as predictably as Santa Claus, although, like Santa, he’s getting a bit up in years now. Like Santa, too, he sometimes has a present in his bag, but often [ Read Article ]
How can you be an expatriate from your adopted country? Polish-born Roman Polanksi, once married to Charles Manson victim Sharon Tate, has had a, shall we say, complex relationship to the United States, from which [ Read Article ]
For some time, Woody Allen has been churning out a film a year. This year’s Irrational Man is his forty-seventh. For a long time, he has been mining the work of his betters, Bergman and [ Read Article ]
The past, as Faulkner continues to remind us, is never over; it’s never even the past. Faulkner was thinking about the American South, but his remark is even truer of marriage, that well-nigh impossible institution [ Read Article ]
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