These three films by Mai Zetterling are visually sumptuous and thematically trenchant.
Bergman’s Trilogy of Faith is a watershed moment of transition both in the filmmaker’s career and in world cinema.
Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema may be exhaustive, but with all the indelible beauty it contains, it's never exhausting.
This is a more wallet-friendly option than Ingmar Bergman's Cinema to owning one of the director's finest early works.
Bergman’s film disguises meaning amid a sea of red, which searingly oozes throughout Criterion’s delicately rendered 2K transfer.
It’s the warping, re-signifying logic of affect and memory that architected this list.
Come for the boobs, stay for the existential meditations on human suffering.
Certainly, taking Bergman’s minimal characters and haunting island setting from celluloid to three dimensions was not a ready-made feat.
This comedy of lust and mismatched love receives a robust Blu-ray transfer and an informative, if relatively light, sampling of extras.
The film is a fierce example of souls made brutally bare by Ingmar Bergman’s scrutiny under the big top of life.
Sawdust and Tinsel is Bergman’s first film where the idea of humiliation, specifically sexual humiliation, becomes crucial to his conception.
Ingmar Bergman dies in the morning. Michelangelo Antonioni dies at night. On the same day. In the middle of summer.
The Girls is a confused feminist manifesto, but it’s at least never boring.
Check out George Cukor’s Les Girls instead.
Peace may lie at the end of an umbilical cord, but these women are more interesting as anguished bitches than nurturing mamas.
Loving Couples executes subversive surgery on oppressive social orders only to switch to the more comfy affirmation that the universe belongs to mothers.
Dogville is less anti-American than it is, quite simply, anti-oppression.