On the surface, Ingmar Bergman's "Autumn Sonata" might seem like a parody of Swedish art films -- a moody, insular drama filled with extended silences, repressed emotions and existential despair. It ...

With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar The history of ...

Olga Artemyeva is a film critic, screenwriter and film curator based in NYC. She has a PhD in Art History and teaches Film Studies. Her dissertaion was dedicated to the evolution of horror, and it ...

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, who died Monday at age 89, was not merely the most influential Scandinavian filmmaker in history, he was the very embodiment of the idea that a film artist could work ...

Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, one of the masters of modern cinema whose brooding and incisive studies of the human psyche won international acclaim — and three Oscars — died Monday at age 89.