After A Full Artistic Life, Ingmar Bergman Lets Death Checkmate Him - Page 12

4. Fanny and Alexander (1983). Both the 188-minute feature and the 312-minute original are now part of the Criterion catalog.

5. His final made-for-TV movie, Saraband, a look back at the long-divorced characters in Scenes from a Marriage, is on DVD from Sony Pictures.

6. There’s an Ingmar Bergman collection by MGM: six DVDs of Persona, Shame, The Hour of the Wolf, The Passion of Anna, and the big-budget mess The Serpent’s Egg, with a 2002 interview with Bergman.

11. ALL HIS MOVIES

Apprentice Work:

• Crisis (1946) (Kris)
• It Rains on Our Love (1946) (Det regnar på vår kärlek)
• A Ship to India (1947) (Skepp till Indialand)
• Music in Darkness (1948) (Musik i mörker)
• Port of Call (1948) (Hamnstad)
• Prison (1949) (Fängelse)
• Thirst /Three Strange Loves (1949) (Törst)
• This Can't Happen Here (1950) (Sånt händer inte här)
• To Joy (1950) (Till glädje)
• Summer Interlude (1951) (Sommarlek)
• Secrets of Women (1952) (Kvinnors väntan)

Maturity:

• Sawdust and Tinsel (1953) (Gycklarnas afton)
• Summer with Monika (1953) (Sommaren med Monika)
• A Lesson in Love (1954) (En lektion i kärlek)
• Dreams (1955) (Kvinnodröm) aka Journey Into Autumn

International Breakthrough:

• Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (Sommarnattens leende)
• The Seventh Seal (1957) (Det sjunde inseglet)
• Wild Strawberries (1957) (Smultronstället)

Period Movies:

• The Magician/The Face (1958) (Ansiktet)
• Brink of Life (1958) (Nära livet)
• The Devil's Eye (1960) (Djävulens öga)
• The Virgin Spring (1960) (Jungfrukällan) (won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film)

Absence-of-God trilogy:

• Through a Glass Darkly (1961) (Såsom i en spegel) (won Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film)
• Winter Light (1962) (Nattvardsgästerna)
• The Silence (1963) (Tystnaden)

Greatness:

• All These Women (1964) (För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor)
• Persona (1966)
• Hour of the Wolf (1967) (Vargtimmen)
• Shame (1968) (Skammen)
• The Rite (1968) (Riten) (TV)
• The Passion of Anna (1969) (En passion)
• The Touch (1971) (Beröringen)
• Cries and Whispers (1973) (Viskningar och rop) (won Academy Award for Best Cinematography)
• Scenes from a Marriage (1973) (Scener ur ett äktenskap)
• The Magic Flute (1975) (Trollflöjten), first shown on Swedish television, followed by a cinematic release
• Face to Face (1976) (Ansikte mot ansikte)

After tax arrest:

• The Serpent's Egg (1977) (Das Schlangenei)
• Autumn Sonata (1978) (Höstsonaten)
• From the Life of the Marionettes (1980) (Aus dem Leben der Marionetten)

Last Period:

• Fanny and Alexander (1982) (Fanny och Alexander) (won 4 Academy Awards)
• Karin's Face (1984) (Karins ansikte) (TV)
• After the Rehearsal (1984) (Efter repetitionen)
• In The Presence of a Clown (1997) (Larmar och gör sig till) (TV)
• Saraband (2003) (TV)

Last work written for others:

• The Best Intentions (1992) (Den goda viljan) (directed by Bille August)
• Sunday’s Children (1992) (Söndagsbarn) (directed by son Daniel Bergman)
• Faithless (2000) (Trolösa) (directed by Liv Ullmann)

SOURCES:

Bergman on Bergman: Interviews with Ingmar Bergman — by Ingmar Bergman (Author) and Stig Bjorkman, Torsten Manns, Jonas Sima (Collaborators); Simon & Schuster; First US edition (1974)

"Ingmar Bergman: Summing Up a Life in Film" by Michiko Kakutani, New York Times Magazine, June 8, 1983

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