Ingmar Bergman

  • Movie News

Bergman Island: How Two Trips to Ingmar Bergman’s Home Inspired Mia Hansen-Løve

French director Mia Hansen-Løve traveled twice to the Swedish island of Fårö as she made her film Bergman Island: once…

3 years ago
  • Winter 2019

Direct From Video: How Directing Music Videos Can Make You a Better Feature Moviemaker

When I was playing drums in the Swedish black metal band Bathory in the early 1980s, it took me a little while to realize…

5 years ago
  • Crossing the Line

The Man in Bergman: A New German Cinema Pioneer’s Search for the Heart and Soul of Ingmar Bergman’s Legacy

In the early 1960s, I went to Paris and had no thoughts of cinema at all. The New German Wave…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2018: Academy Award-Nominated Directors Get Candid About Their Films

With three titans of cinema and two of the most acclaimed and promising debutants in years in attendance, it was…

6 years ago
  • Directing

Dream On: Watch How Ingmar Bergman Laid the Groundwork for Cinematic Depictions of Dreams (Video)

From Maya Deren to David Lynch, the cinematic "fever dream" has been conjured by many, but mastered by few. Ingmar…

7 years ago
  • Interviews

Foreign Contenders: Finland’s The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki Revives 16mm Reversal Film

MovieMaker's weekly series "Foreign Contenders" will feature interviews with the heavyweight helmers behind their respective countries’ entries for the Academy Award for…

7 years ago
  • Directing
  • Documentary
  • Fall 2014

Addicts, Winos, Fassbinder, Herzog: Giuseppe Makes a Movie Testifies to Cinema’s Power to Unite

Two days. $1,000. A camcorder and pack of tapes. A cast of alcoholics, drug addicts (who were picked from heroin…

9 years ago
  • Articles - Features

The 25 Most Influential Directors of All Time, From Scorsese to Kubrick

Martin Scorsese. Stanley Kubrick. Alfred Hitchcock. As time passes, new models inevitably emerge. In art, politics and history, each generation…

22 years ago