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Short Takes
Jun 8, 2012 — You’d be forgiven for expecting something lurid and shameless from Ingmar Bergman’s Summer with Monika after viewing this trailer for the original, dubbed American release. Also: it was based on the Time magazine story “Sin in Sweden”? News to us!...
Interviews
Jun 7, 2012 — In this classic self-interview, published to coincide with the release of Summer with Monika, the director reveals key elements of his filmmaking process.
In Theaters
Jun 7, 2012 — Repertory PicksA film noir series is currently casting a long shadow over the Omaha movie theater Film Streams. The upcoming week’s selections include two prime crime melodramas from the fifties, both frenetic dispatches from the height of the cold war:...
Short Takes
Jun 1, 2012 — Though his career was devastatingly brief, Jean Vigo was able to leave behind many unforgettable images that have joined the cinematic pantheon. One of them is undoubtedly Zéro de conduite’s boarding-school insurrectionists in pajamas, whooping it up in slow motion...
The only female director of the French New Wave, Agnès Varda has been called both the movement’s mother and its grandmother.
May 30, 2012 — Our video series featuring filmmakers and friends Robert Downey Sr. and Paul Thomas Anderson discussing the films in the Eclipse set Up All Night with Robert Downey Sr. wraps up with an installment focusing on the most successful film of...
May 29, 2012 — Harriet Andersson’s Monika is both an erotic object and an empowered female protagonist in Bergman’s groundbreaker.
May 25, 2012 — Did You See This? • Meet the man behind the music for Wes Anderson's movies • Capra, Ford, Huston, Wilder—now on envelopes • Bordwell charts the digital transition • Belmondo! Vitti! Delon! A classic Cannes photo album • Polanski at...
May 24, 2012 — Robert Downey Sr.’s stream-of-consciousness Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight is a film that could use some explaining. Downey and friend P. T. Anderson are not interested in doing that, however, in this third part of our exclusive online series...