by admin | Feb 27, 2013 | Gentle, Section Two
I saw “The Seventh Seal” on Blu-ray: the Knight, the Squire, Mia, Jof and their baby, Lisa and the Smith, Raval the Seminarian turned thief. But my favorite character was the nameless girl. She was the last of her village to survive, or not to flee, the plague. The...
by admin | Feb 9, 2013 | Gentle, Section Two
I watched an interview with Ingmar Bergman on the DVD version of “Persona” called “A Poem in Images.” He spoke in English, not his native language, but I left the quote below verbatim because I liked the ideas expressed as they were. “I was ill and they had to make...
by admin | Nov 6, 2012 | Gentle, Section Two
Neither Alexander or his evil stepfather appear during the whipping sequence in “Fanny and Alexander.” The whipping was implied with a sound effect and a series of close-ups of the witnesses. There was nothing titillating for a spankophile (though Justine’s pained...
by admin | Oct 19, 2012 | Gentle, Section Two
Alexander in Ingmar Bergman’s film “Fanny and Alexander” encouraged the ghost of his “good” father (who looks disconcertingly like Adolf Hitler) to stop haunting him, to go on to heaven and convince God to kill his stepfather. The ghost of his “good” father...