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The Congress for Jewish Culture has been commissioned to present director Moshe Yassur’s critically acclaimed 2013 Off-Broadway Yiddish language staging of WAITING FOR GODOT at the prestigious Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, Sweden next month.

Ingmar Bergman's "After the Rehearsal" seems to be as simple and direct as a tape recording of actual conversations, and yet look at the thickets of interpretation it has inspired in its critics. After seeing it, I thought I understood the film entirely. Now I am not so sure. Like so many of Bergman's films, and especially the spare "chamber films" it joins ("Winter Light," "Persona"), it consists of unadorned surfaces concealing fathomless depths.

Mia Hansen-Løve likes ambiguity and in her new movie, “Bergman Island,” she has created a film that is as ambiguous as it is enigmatic. Chris, an actress…

After taking a pandemic-enforced break, I'm going back to the gym several days a week. I take my iPad for the cardio sessions. Part of my job involves watching things, so this way I can work while I'm working out.

Ingmar Bergman, adicto al trabajo, iracundo y… mujeriego. Director de más de sesenta películas y ganador de cuatro Oscar, el genio sueco también acumuló amantes e infidelidades. Te contamos la vida sentimental de este seductor que tuvo aventuras con todas sus actrices y que engañó a casi todas. Por Ixone Díaz Landaluce Tiempo de lectura:7 min. Se dice con frecuencia que Dios es amor, pero a mí me resulta más claro si me permiten decir que el amor es Dios. El...

Brooding, Stark, Cold and Dark: The Beauty of Nordic Cinema Tom Jolliffe journeys across the cinematic landscape of the Nordic countries… Every cinematic nation tends to have a particular forte, or a period in time very distinct for creative output that sees them produce work unique to them. Japan had a period of Samurai films and one of ghost stories. Italy have had neo-realism and horror. France have had avant-garde cinema, and also a pretty immense period of extremely cool Gallic infused t...

The Top 100 Thrillers of All Time, According to Critics By Joseph Bien-Kahn, Stacker News AND Abby Monteil, Stacker News On 6/30/21 at 8:00 PM EDT What is a thriller exactly? Unlike the sci-fi or comedy genres, a film can fit into this corner of cinema if it manages to keep viewers on the edges of their seats with intense thrills and palpable suspense. As long as the movie is able to build tension, its fair game. Of course, there are plenty of subgenres within, which film...

Frank Perry and Jerry Schatzberg jolted audiences who werent used to unsatisfied and belittled housewives starring in a film, or to the concept of such people existing.

The 100 Best International Movies of All Time By Molly Pennington, Stacker On 5/13/21 at 6:30 PM EDT International cinema has always had a profound influence on American movies. At the same time, many of the great films in languages other than English retool the styles and genres of popular American movies. Have you ever forgotten you were reading subtitles as you were swept up in the action on screen? Westerns, film noirs, and even romances tap into universal visual languages of movement, a...

Family watching television, 1958. Photograph by Evert F. Baumgardner. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Source: National Archives and Records Administration. A few years ago I had a conversation with a close friend of mine about the experience of watching older films on TV with my parents. I’d be sitting there, deeply involved with something by John Ford or Sam Peckinpah or King Vidor, and my father would make a comment about the color of the military uniforms being incorrect, or the fact that i...