Evento

Wild Strawberries (1957) & The Virgin Spring (1960)

Friday and Saturday, June 17-18, 2011:

An Ingmar Bergman double feature

Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film
at the 8th Berlin International Film Festival

WILD STRAWBERRIES
1957, Sweden, 91 minutes, 35mm, Janus Films
written and directed by Ingmar Bergman;
starring Victor Sjöström, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin,
Gunnar Björnstrand;
in Swedish with English subtitles
Fri: 7:30 pm; Sat: 3:50 & 7:30

Cinematography by Gunnar Fischer, who passed away this past Saturday, June 11, 2011, at the age of 100. Fischer's other collaborations with Bergman include THE SEVENTH SEAL, SUMMER WITH MONIKA, SUMMER INTERLUDE and
THE MAGICIAN.

"Fischer's great skill was in monochrome," according to the British film historian Peter Cowie. "He gave Bergman's films that unique expressionist look, with their brilliant contrasts in every gradation of black and white."

- plus on the same double bill -

Winner of 1961 Academy Award
for Best Foreign Language Film

THE VIRGIN SPRING
1960, Sweden, 89 minutes, 35mm, Janus Films
directed by Ingmar Bergman; screenplay by Ulla Isaksson;
starring Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom;
in Swedish with English subtitles
Fri: 9:20 pm; Sat: 5:40 & 9:20 pm

Criterion Collection synopsis:
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring is a harrowing tale of faith, revenge, and savagery in medieval Sweden. Starring frequent Bergman collaborator and screen icon Max von Sydow, the film is both beautiful and cruel in its depiction of a world teetering between paganism and Christianity, and of one father's need to avenge the death of a child.

This is a double feature:
your ticket admits you to BOTH films!