“A Cruel Mistress”
By Raymond Benson
Master filmmaker and stage director Ingmar Bergman famously said that he was “married to the theatre,” but that “film was his mistress.” In a vintage interview in Margarethe von Trotta’s new documentary on Bergman, the Swedish artist is asked to define “film director.” Bergman’s brow wrinkles and he is lost in thought for a moment… and then he replies that being a film director is “someone who has so many problems to deal with he doesn’t have time to think.”
Film, then, is a cruel mistress, indeed.
An official selection of the New York Film Festival and released to U.S. theaters in November in time to help celebrate Bergman’s centenary, Searching for Ingmar Bergman is a welcome and lovingly-made examination of the filmmaker’s life and work. Director von Trotta, one of the major figures of the New German...
By Raymond Benson
Master filmmaker and stage director Ingmar Bergman famously said that he was “married to the theatre,” but that “film was his mistress.” In a vintage interview in Margarethe von Trotta’s new documentary on Bergman, the Swedish artist is asked to define “film director.” Bergman’s brow wrinkles and he is lost in thought for a moment… and then he replies that being a film director is “someone who has so many problems to deal with he doesn’t have time to think.”
Film, then, is a cruel mistress, indeed.
An official selection of the New York Film Festival and released to U.S. theaters in November in time to help celebrate Bergman’s centenary, Searching for Ingmar Bergman is a welcome and lovingly-made examination of the filmmaker’s life and work. Director von Trotta, one of the major figures of the New German...
- 11/6/2018
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
Other winners at Swedish film awards include The Yard, Martha & Niki and My Aunt In Sarajevo.
Johannes Nyholm’s The Giant (pictured) was the big winner at the 2017 Guldbagge Awards in Sweden.
Produced by Garagefilm International and Beo Film, it won best film, best screenplay (for Nyholm) and best make-up (Eva von Bahr, Love Larson and Pia Aleborg).
The Yard also won three awards, including best actor (Anders Mossling), best cinematography (Ita Zbroniec-Zajt) and best sound/sound design (Patrik Strömdahl).
Goran Kapetanović won best director for the unusual My Aunt In Sarajevo, which had a theatrical release despite being only 58 minutes long. The film’s Sadžida Šetić also won best actress in a supporting role.
Maria Sundbom picked up best actress for The Girl, The Mother And The Demons, while Michael Nyqvist won best supporting actor for his role in A Serious Game.
Martha And Niki won best editing (Tora Mkandawire Mårtens and Therese Elfström) and best...
Johannes Nyholm’s The Giant (pictured) was the big winner at the 2017 Guldbagge Awards in Sweden.
Produced by Garagefilm International and Beo Film, it won best film, best screenplay (for Nyholm) and best make-up (Eva von Bahr, Love Larson and Pia Aleborg).
The Yard also won three awards, including best actor (Anders Mossling), best cinematography (Ita Zbroniec-Zajt) and best sound/sound design (Patrik Strömdahl).
Goran Kapetanović won best director for the unusual My Aunt In Sarajevo, which had a theatrical release despite being only 58 minutes long. The film’s Sadžida Šetić also won best actress in a supporting role.
Maria Sundbom picked up best actress for The Girl, The Mother And The Demons, while Michael Nyqvist won best supporting actor for his role in A Serious Game.
Martha And Niki won best editing (Tora Mkandawire Mårtens and Therese Elfström) and best...
- 1/24/2017
- ScreenDaily
'Fanny and Alexander' movie: Ingmar Bergman classic with Bertil Guve as Alexander Ekdahl 'Fanny and Alexander' movie review: Last Ingmar Bergman 'filmic film' Why Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander / Fanny och Alexander bears its appellation is a mystery – one of many in the director's final 'filmic film' – since the first titular character, Fanny (Pernilla Allwin) is at best a third- or fourth-level supporting character. In fact, in the three-hour theatrical version she is not even mentioned by name for nearly an hour into the film. Fanny and Alexander should have been called "Alexander and Fanny," or simply "Alexander," since it most closely follows two years – from 1907 to 1909 – in the life of young, handsome, brown-haired Alexander Ekdahl (Bertil Guve), the original "boy who sees dead people." Better yet, it should have been called "The Ekdahls," for that whole family is central to the film, especially Fanny and Alexander's beautiful blonde mother Emilie,...
- 5/8/2015
- by Dan Schneider
- Alt Film Guide
An interesting Us - Russia documentary co-production on one of our best and least known international filmmakers - Tarkovsky - is underway and raising funds. U.S. documentarian Pj Letovsky has teamed with, among others, Russian superstar Oleg Vidov to produce this long needed work via Kickstarter.
Kickstarter has been become a go to fundraising tool for indie filmmakers that has recently gained attention for their multi million dollar campaigns for Robert Thomas’ ‘Veronica Mars Movie Project’ $5.7 million, and Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ campaign that netted $3.1 million. 10% of the films at Sundance are Kickstarter funded, and 2 movies have been nominated for an Oscar; 63 Kickstarter funded films opened on in theaters and Kickstarter has 80 Million unique views each month.
Since it’s inception in 2009, Kickstarter has launched 26,759 Film and Video projects, with 10,354 being successful (40% rate) and collecting $120 million for their projects (they also have categories for Music, Games, Art, Photography, etc).
Pj Letofsky is directing/ producing a film on the Russian auteur director Andrei Tarkovsky called Time Within Time, that is based his diary. He has some pretty prestigious names associated with the project- Oleg Vidov (the Russian Robert Redford), Director Andrei Konchalovsky, Tonino Guerra (Fellini, Antonioni, and Tarkovsky’s screenwriter), Katinka Farago (Bergman’s Production mananger for 30 years). Letofsky tried the traditional methods of trying to find co-production partners in the Us, Italy, France, UK, and Russia, and after limited success (and having decided to go into production) he is now trying a Kickstarter campaign- going directly to Tarkovsky fans around the world- to raise the final 20% of the budget to finish his film.
‘Tarkovsky is relatively unknown in the West, but he is such an important, and influential filmmaker in world cinema, that I have to do everything I can to complete this film’ says Letofsky. ‘We are using Kickstarter, and its reach thru social media- Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Blogs- to connect to our niche audience. I’m also looking at it as a ‘pre-marketing campaign’ to build relationships with people who can help when the film is finished. I’ve been getting pledges from Tarkovsky fans from all over the world- Paris, Stockholm, Budapest, Melbourne, London, Mumbai, NY, La, Portland, Austin- it is international financing on a modest scale, but I am looking to build on it for my career. It’s also one part of strategy for funding, and marketing- building awareness’.
Pj teamed up with his friend Patrick Calderon who knows the social network media strategies to target Tarkovsky fans thru Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, and Bloggers and get them to the Kickstarter site. ‘Tarkovsky- Time Within Time’ is in the middle of their campaign. Take a look, make a pledge, and tell everyone you helped Produce a movie!
Contact Pj Letofsky at pjletofsky[a]gmail.com...
Kickstarter has been become a go to fundraising tool for indie filmmakers that has recently gained attention for their multi million dollar campaigns for Robert Thomas’ ‘Veronica Mars Movie Project’ $5.7 million, and Zach Braff’s ‘Wish I Was Here’ campaign that netted $3.1 million. 10% of the films at Sundance are Kickstarter funded, and 2 movies have been nominated for an Oscar; 63 Kickstarter funded films opened on in theaters and Kickstarter has 80 Million unique views each month.
Since it’s inception in 2009, Kickstarter has launched 26,759 Film and Video projects, with 10,354 being successful (40% rate) and collecting $120 million for their projects (they also have categories for Music, Games, Art, Photography, etc).
Pj Letofsky is directing/ producing a film on the Russian auteur director Andrei Tarkovsky called Time Within Time, that is based his diary. He has some pretty prestigious names associated with the project- Oleg Vidov (the Russian Robert Redford), Director Andrei Konchalovsky, Tonino Guerra (Fellini, Antonioni, and Tarkovsky’s screenwriter), Katinka Farago (Bergman’s Production mananger for 30 years). Letofsky tried the traditional methods of trying to find co-production partners in the Us, Italy, France, UK, and Russia, and after limited success (and having decided to go into production) he is now trying a Kickstarter campaign- going directly to Tarkovsky fans around the world- to raise the final 20% of the budget to finish his film.
‘Tarkovsky is relatively unknown in the West, but he is such an important, and influential filmmaker in world cinema, that I have to do everything I can to complete this film’ says Letofsky. ‘We are using Kickstarter, and its reach thru social media- Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, Blogs- to connect to our niche audience. I’m also looking at it as a ‘pre-marketing campaign’ to build relationships with people who can help when the film is finished. I’ve been getting pledges from Tarkovsky fans from all over the world- Paris, Stockholm, Budapest, Melbourne, London, Mumbai, NY, La, Portland, Austin- it is international financing on a modest scale, but I am looking to build on it for my career. It’s also one part of strategy for funding, and marketing- building awareness’.
Pj teamed up with his friend Patrick Calderon who knows the social network media strategies to target Tarkovsky fans thru Facebook, Twitter, You Tube, and Bloggers and get them to the Kickstarter site. ‘Tarkovsky- Time Within Time’ is in the middle of their campaign. Take a look, make a pledge, and tell everyone you helped Produce a movie!
Contact Pj Letofsky at pjletofsky[a]gmail.com...
- 6/21/2013
- by Peter Belsito
- Sydney's Buzz
Ewa Fröling in Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander Fanny And Alexander Review Pt. 2 The television version of Fanny and Alexander comes on two discs, each with two of the four episodes (although the series is in five 'Acts'), but only with English subtitles. The second of these discs also offers a good forty-minute documentary called A Bergman Tapestry, featuring interviews with Fanny and Alexander producer Jörn Donner, production manager Katinka Farago, art director Anna Asp, assistant director Peter Schildt, and actors Bertil Guve (who now looks like a balder, thinner Guy Pearce), Ewa Fröling, Pernilla August, and Erland Josephson. The final two discs have Bergman's acclaimed, but rather tedious and uninsightful The Making of Fanny and Alexander. The documentary simply follows scenes showing the filming process, with no real discussion or commentary by either Bergman or any of the participants. Especially in this DVD age, this "Making of" feels...
- 2/5/2011
- by Dan Schneider
- Alt Film Guide
At a meeting held Monday, the 2009 Guldbagge (Golden Beetle) jury comprised of Katinka Faragó, Nils Petter Sundgren, Pia Johansson, Jannike Åhlund, Johan Renck, Mikael Marcimain and Guldbagge jury chairman Eva Swartz Grimaldi (not voting) picked Niels Arden Oplev’s box-office smash The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as the best Swedish picture of the year. Adapted by Nikolaj Arcel and Rasmus Heisterberg (from Stieg Larsson’s novel), and starring Michael Nyqvist and best actress winner Noomi Rapace, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has been compared to both The Silence of the Lambs and S7ven. The film follows a journalist trying to uncover a disappearance that took place in the mid-60s — a serial killer still on the [...]...
- 1/25/2010
- by Arthur Leander
- Alt Film Guide
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