What movies do you enjoy watching at New Year? The Phantom Thread is so damn good. It gets better on repeated viewings. I always felt that Paul Thomas Anderson‘s There will be Blood was a homage of sorts to Orson…
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Could Watching the Phantom Thread Become a *new* New Year’s Tradition?
Tagged with: Citizen kane, Ingmar Bergman, love, new year, new years, orson welles, Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread, There will be blood
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) Ingmar Bergman
Last night I saw this gorgeous movie called Smiles of a Summer Night. This Ingmar Bergman period piece comedy runs rampant with extremely clever and witty dialogue. It’s so unashamedly cheeky! On the surface, it’s seemingly a light-hearted humorous romp…
Tagged with: A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Breaking Down Bergman Series, Ingmar Bergman, Smiles of a Summer Night, Woody Allen
Posted in Movies and TV
Posted in Movies and TV
Winter Light (1963) – Ingmar Bergman
Marta Lundberg, an atheist local school teacher sits and laments at the church pew because she is deeply in love with a pastor whose faith in God, himself and Marta is dwindling into an existential nothingness. At the point of…
Ingmar Bergman and Wild Strawberries (1957)
Many years ago, I had the audacity to create a list of my 100 favourite movies on IMDB without having seen a single Ingmar Bergman picture. I was more or less cajoled to watch Bergman if my list was to…
Tagged with: Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
Posted in Movies and TV, Reflections
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