The Seventh Seal (1957)
Jan 20, 2001Death Incarnate
Ingmar Bergman's classic work where Max Von Sydow plays a game of chess with Death. A film that seems to carry the philosophical weight of the modern world on its shoulders
Bibi Andersson
The Magician (1958)
Mar 10, 2004Enigmatic Magician
Ingmar Bergman film about a travelling magic show. Bergman is fascinated with the power that illusionists hold and what happens behind the mask. A spellbinding film that is more haunted that most genre films
The Devil’s Eye (1960)
May 4, 2008The Devil Tempts Innocents Comedy
Ingmar Bergman comedy in which The Devil sends Don Juan to tempt a vicar's wife. A minor Bergman entry where he seems unsuited to directing comedy and allows his usual weighty philosophical preoccupations to intrude
Quintet (1979)
Jul 4, 2003Frozen Future/Enigmatic Game
The great Robert Altman's most frustrating film set around an enigmatic dice game in a frozen future