Häxan (1922)
Nov 3, 2006Satanism and Witchcraft Documentary
A bizarre pseudo-documentary from the silent era that claims to recount a history of Satanism and witchcraft. Much of the film's thesis is spurious but the results are facsinating
Svensk Filmindustri
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
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 Virgin Spring (1959)
Oct 21, 2007Revenge Film
One of the classic works from Ingmar Bergman, uncreditedly remade by Wes Craven as The Last House on the Left, with Max Von Sydow as a virtuous farmer who is driven to vengeance after three youths rape and kill his daughter
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
Hour of the Wolf (1968)
Feb 2, 2001Tormented Artist's Hallucinations
One of the works of the celebrated Ingmar Bergman with Max Von Sydow as an artist tormented by insomnia who starts to slip into disturbing hallucinations where he (and we) can not be certain what is being seen is real
The New Adventures of Pippi Longstocking (1988)
Sep 5, 2004Anarchic Girl
Ill-conceived US version of the popular children's book character created by Astrid Lindgren. The result feels less a film as it does a kindergarten playground gone entirely out of control
Pippi Longstocking (1997)
Apr 6, 2004Anarchic Girl/Animation
A likeable animated adaptation of Astrid Lindgren's popular children's character from the Canadian company Nelvana