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Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form. Institutionalized: The Films of Frederick Wiseman Frederick Wiseman’s latest documentary, City Hall, is his forty-third, but who’s counting? In the half-century since the release, and prompt two-decade ban, of Titicut Follies (1967) — his harrowing début about a prison for the criminally insane — Wiseman has chronicled the myriad ways (chiefly) American life is raised up and laid low, dignified and debased, spared and squandered by institutions. With bald titles such as High School (1968), Near Death (1989), and Zoo (1993), a...

Shakespeare used six words to pose the essential human choice: "To be, or not to be?" Elizabeth, a character in Ingmar Bergman's "Persona," uses two to answer it: "No, don't!" She is an actress who one night stopped speaking in the middle of the performance, and has been silent ever since. Now her nurse, Alma, has in a fit of rage started to throw a pot of boiling water at her. "No, don't!" translates as: I do not want to feel pain, I do not want to be scarred, I do not want to die. She wants . . . to be. She admits . . . she exists.

Gunnel Lindblom in The Seventh Seal, 1957, directed by Ingmar Bergman. Photograph: TCD/Alamy The Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman was renowned for writing complex and demanding roles for women such as Harriet Andersson, Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullmann. Further down the cast list, but prized by the director throughout his career, was Gunnel Lindblom, who has died aged 89. She appeared in several of his best-known pictures, including The Seventh Seal (1957), in which she was the young mute woman who accompanies a knight’s squire (Gunnar B...

 | Updated February 5, 2021 Christopher Plummer at the 2018 Academy Awards. Christopher Plummer, the revered Canadian actor who launched a stage career and later became an Academy Award-winning movie star best known for “The Sound of Music” and “Beginners,” has died. He was 91. Plummer died peacefully with his wife, Elaine Taylor, by his side, Deadline reported. Plummer appeared in more than 200 films, television shows and plays dating back to the late 1940s. Born in Toronto to wealthy parents, his smooth mid-Atlantic elocution befit his tony tendencies. Plummer initially considered ...

Gunnel Lindblom, sensual star of Ingmar Bergman’s ‘The Silence,’ dies at 89 Tim Page Gunnel Lindblom, a Swedish actress and director who played small, indelible roles in some of Ingmar Bergman’s most celebrated early films and then a central character in the once-scandalous “The Silence” (1963), died Jan. 24 at her home in Brottby, northeast of Stockholm. She was 89. Her family announced the death and did not provide a cause. In Ms. Lindblom’s first movie for Bergman, she spoke only one line. She played a servant girl, described as mute, in “The Seventh...