Actress Liv Ullmann, director Jan Troell pay tribute to Max von Sydow in Bay Area film series
G. Allen Johnson March 11, 2021Updated: March 12, 2021, 7:25 am Antonius (Max von Sydow, right) plays chess with Death (Bengt Ekerot) in Ingmar Bergman’s classic “The Seventh Seal” (1957). Von Sydow, who died in 2020 at age 90, is the subject of a six-film online retrospective that is a partnership of the Berkeley Art Museum’s Pacific Film Archive and the California Film Institute’s Smith Rafael Film Center. Photo: Janus Films 1957 It started by challenging Death to a game of chess and ended with “Game of Thrones.” Max von Sydow carved out a legendary international ...
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