Ingmar Bergman
1) Shame
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
An examination of the violent legacy of World War II and a scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Two musicians live in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, until the civil war that drove them from the city catches up with them there. Amid the chaos of the military struggle, vividly evoked by pyrotechnics and by Sven Nykvistb2ss handheld camera work, the two are faced with impossible moral choices that tear at the fabric...
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Pub. Date
[2010]
Summary
A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Pub. Date
2004
Summary
Eight characters become four couples while vacationing at a country estate.
4) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Formats
Summary
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
Series
Criterion collection volume 321
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Pub. Date
c1998
Summary
"After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess"--Container.