Ingmar Bergman's Cinema (1946-2003)

[Hoke Moseley]

In honor of Ingmar Bergman’s one-hundredth birthday, the Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of his films ever released on home video. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. The struggles of faith and morality, the nature of dreams, and the agonies and ecstasies of human relationships—Bergman explored these subjects in films ranging from comedies whose lightness and complexity belie their brooding hearts to groundbreaking formal experiments and excruciatingly intimate explorations of family life.

Arranged as a film festival with opening and closing nights bookending double features and centerpieces, this selection spans six decades and thirty-nine films—including such celebrated classics as The Seventh Seal, Persona, and Fanny and Alexander alongside previously unavailable works like Dreams, The Rite, and Brink of Life. Accompanied by a 248-page book with essays on each program, as well as by more than thirty hours of supplemental features, Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema traces themes and images across Bergman’s career, blazing trails through the master’s unequaled body of work for longtime fans and newcomers alike.

Films included:

[Show spoiler]Crisis
A Ship to India
Port of Call
Thirst
To Joy
Summer Interlude
Waiting Women
Summer with Monika
Sawdust and Tinsel
A Lesson in Love
Dreams
Smiles of a Summer Night
The Seventh Seal
Wild Strawberries
Brink of Life
The Magician
The Virgin Spring
The Devil's Eye
Through a Glass Darkly
Winter Light
The Silence
All These Women
Persona
Hour of the Wolf
Shame
The Rite
The Passion of Anna
Faro Document
The Touch
Cries and Whispers
Scenes from a Marriage
The Magic Flute
The Serpent's Egg
Autumn Sonata
Faro Document 1979
From the Life of the Marionettes
Fanny and Alexander Theatrical
Fanny and Alexander TV
After the Rehearsal
Saraband