Bergman Ingmar - Ingmar Bergman: an artists journey on stage, on screen, in print

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Each Film Is My Last, by Ingmar Bergman, copyright 1966 by and reprinted by permission of the Drama Review , Vol. 11, No. 1, T-33, Fall 1966; Remembering Alf Sjoberg from The Magic Lantern , by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tte, translation copyright 1988 by Joan Tte, original copyright 1987 by Ingmar Bergman, reprinted by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc.; Bergmans Best Intentions, copyright 1991 by Lasse Bergstrom, translation copyright 1992 by and reprinted by permission of Richard Nord, originally published in Scanorama , May 1992; Through a Life Darkly, 1988 by Woody Allen, reprinted by permission of Rollins and Joffe for the author, originally published in the New York Times BookReview , September 18, 1988; On Ingmar Bergman from The Films inMy Life , by Francois Truffaut, copyright 1975 by Flammarion, translation copyright 1978 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster; Bergmanorama, by Jean-Luc Godard, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Ingmar Bergman at 70: A Tribute , special issue of Chaplin Film Magazine , edited by Lars Ahlander, 1988; Working with Bergman: Excerpts from a Seminar with Liv Ullmann, copyright 1973 by and reprinted by permission of Liv Ullmann, originally published in American Film , March 1973; The Bergman Vaccination Method, by Erland Josephson, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Ingmar Bergman at 70: A Tribute , special issue of Chaplin Film Magazine , edited by Lars Ahlander, 1988; A Letter to Ingmar Bergman, by Max von Sydow, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Ingmar Bergman at 70: A Tribute , special issue of Chaplin Film Magazine , edited by Lars Ahlander, 1988; Confessions of a Bergman Co-Worker, by Gunnel Lindblom, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Ingmar Bergman at 70: A Tribute , special issue of Chaplin Film Magazine , edited by Lars Ahlander, 1988; Some Thoughts about an Old Colleague on His Way to Canonization, by Eva Dahlbeck, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Ingmar Bergman at 70: A Tribute , special issue of Chaplin Film Magazine , edited by Lars Ahlander, 1988; Bergman on Stage and Screen: Excerpts from a Seminar with Bibi Andersson, copyright 1977 by and reprinted by permission of Bibi Andersson, originally published in American Film , March 1977; The Northern Protestant, copyright 1960 by James Baldwin, reprinted by permission of the James Baldwin Estate, originally published in Esquire and collected in Nobody Knows My Name: More Notes of a Native Son , published by Vintage Books; A Filmmaker in the Borderland: Bergman and Cultural Traditions, by Mikael Timm, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Ingmar Bergman at 70: A Tribute , special issue of Chaplin Film Magazine , edited by Lars Ahlander, 1988; The Significance of Ingmar Bergman, by Jrn Donner, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Ingmar Bergman at 70: A Tribute , special issue of Chaplin Film Magazine , edited by Lars Ahlander, 1988; Bergmans Trilogy: Tradition and Innovation, by Roger W. Oliver, copyright 1992 by and reprinted by permission of The Johns Hopkins University Press, originally published in Performing Arts Journal #40 , Vol. 14, No. 1, January 1992; Bergman as Novelist, by Caryn James, copyright 1994 by and reprinted by permission of the New York Times , originally published as Ingmar Bergman Adds to the Mosaic of Autobiography in the New York Times , April 22, 1994; The Imagined Past in Ingmar Bergmans The Best Intentions, copyright 1994 by Rochelle Wright; The Typically Swedish in Ingmar Bergman, by Maaret Koskinen, copyright 1988 by and reprinted by permission of the Swedish Film Institute, originally published in Chaplin Film Magazine , 25th anniversary issue, edited by Lars Ahlander, 1984; Manhattan Surrounded by Ingmar Bergman, copyright 1994 by Birgitta Steene; Winter Songs, copyright 1994 by John H. Lahr, reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc. for the author, originally published in The New Yorker , October 3, 1994.

Photo credits appear on page 161.

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I LLUSTRATION

Ingmar Bergman directing Strlndbergs A Dream Play

The young Ingmar Bergman on location

Bergman directing Crisis , with cinematographer Gsta Roosling

Bergman with Signe Hasso and Alf Kjellin during the filming of This Cant Happen Here

Alf Sjberg directing a scene from Bergmans screenplay Torment

Brje Ahlstedt and Solveig Ternstrm in Ibsens Peer Gynt

Brje Ahlstedt as Peer Gynt

Jarl Kulle and cast members of King Lear

A scene from Illicit Interlude with Maj-Britt Nilsson and Annalisa Ericson

Stockholms outer archipelago as filmed in Illicit Interlude , with Maj-Britt Nilsson

Lars Ekborg and Harriet Andersson in Monika

Harriet Andersson as Monika in Monika

Anders Ek as the white circus clown and Gudrun Brost in The Naked Night

Harriet Andersson in Monika

Liv Ullmann and Max von Sydow in Shame

Bergman directing Liv Ullmann on the set of Autumn Sonata

Bengt Ekerot as Death and Max von Sydow as the Knight in The Seventh Seal

Max von Sydow with Bibi Andersson in The Seventh Seal

Bergman on the set of The Seventh Seal with Bengt Ekerot

The Dance of Death in The Seventh Seal

Eva Dahlbeck as Dsire Armfeldt in Smiles of a Summer Night

Victor Sjstrm remembering the past in Wild Strawberries

Bibi Andersson, Liv Ulimann, Sven Nykvist, and Ingmar Bergman during the filming of Persona

Bergman in conference with cinematographer Sven Nykvist

Spilt image of BIbl Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona

Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann in Persona

A scene from Through a Glass Darkly

Ingmar Bergman with Gunnar Bjrnstrand during the filming of Winter Light

Gunnel Lindblom with Jrgen Lindstrm and Ingrid Thulin in The Silence

A scene from Strindbergs A Dream Play

A scene from Strindbergs A Dream Play

Lena Olin and Per Myrberg in Strindbergs A Dream Play

Peter Stormare and Lena Olin in Strindbergs Miss Julie

Max von Sydow with Bergman during the filming of Hour of the Wolf

Bergman, Ulf Johanson, and Liv Ullmann during the filming of Face to Face

Bibi Andersson and Thommy Berggren in Eugene ONeills Long Days Journey into Night

Pernilla August and Per Mattsson in Ibsens A Doils House