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Report: Ingmar Bergman's Swedish island home sold

Swedish media says a Norwegian businessman has bought late filmmaker Ingmar Bergman's secluded island home for an undisclosed sum.

Bergman items sold at auction in Sweden

A chipped and incomplete chess set believed to have featured in one of Ingmar Bergman's best known films fetched one of the highest bids at a special auction for the late director's belongings, auction house officials said Tuesday.

Bergman belongings on auction in Stockholm

A writing desk, film cameras and Golden Globe awards belonging to Swedish film legend Ingmar Bergman are attracting a huge interest from collectors as they go up for auction in Stockholm.

Ingmar Bergman's Swedish island home up for sale

The secluded island home where Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman spent his final years is up for sale.

Review: How much cheese? ‘Seven Pounds’ worth

“Seven Pounds” slogs about, impressed with its own supposed depth, as we watch Will Smith play a man attempting to pay for his past sins. Director Gabriele Muccino (“The Pursuit of Happyness”) seems to think he’s in Ingmar Bergman territory, but he’s actually made the longest, most dour episode of “My Name is Earl” imaginable.

Stockholm names street after film director Bergman

Stockholm City Council has named a street and a square in the city after Ingmar Bergman.

Bergman's Wife to Be Reburied in Faro

Ingmar Bergman's last wish will be fulfilled when the remains of his fifth and final wife are transferred to his grave on the Baltic Sea island of Faro.

Film Institute to Commemorate Bergman

The Swedish Film Institute will dedicate a weekend to the life and works of Ingmar Bergman.

Film Director Ingmar Bergman Is Buried

A few dozen family and friends of Ingmar Bergman attended his funeral Saturday on the small Swedish island where he spent his final years — a low-key affair in keeping with the legendary filmmaker's wishes.

Film Great Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89

Master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest artists in cinema history, died Monday at his home on an island off the coast of Sweden. He was 89.

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Stockholm to name street after Bergman
Source: thelocal.se

The city of Stockholm plans to rename a street after the late Swedish cinema legend Ingmar Bergman, who died last July at the age of 89.

Culture Bytes: An Existential Road Trip
Source: Pajamas Media

PJM's David Freeman treats himself to Wild Strawberries, a "touchstone of the cinema" and a prime example of the ageless magic of the recently deceased film genius Ingmar Bergman.

Film legend Ingmar Bergman buried - Yahoo! News UK
Source: Yahoo! News

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Film legend Ingmar Bergman was buried on Saturday on his home island in the Baltic sea at a private funeral attended by family and close friends, Swedish media reported.

Before Them, Films Were Just Movies
Source: The New York Times

In their prime, Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman were seen as the twin embodiments of the idea that a filmmaker could be, without qualification or compromise, a great artist.

The Man Who Asked Hard Questions
Source: The New York Times

Behind Ingmar Bergman's unblinking inquiries of Godand death and love was a filmmaker's filmmaker.

Roger Ebert: Defending Ingmar Bergman
Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Excerpt: "I have long known and admired the Chicago Reader's film critic, Jonathan Rosenbaum, but his New York Times op-ed attack on Ingmar Bergman ("Scenes from an Overrated Career," 8/4/07) is a bizarre departure from his usual sanity.

Bergman, Antonioni and the Religiously Inclined
Source: The New York Times

While God had a leading role in several of Ingmar Bergman's films, Michelangelo Antonioni was unremittingly secular.

Before them, films were just movies
Source: International Herald Tribune

Excerpt :"By an awful and uncanny coincidence — the kind of occurrence that, in a movie, would have to be taken as symbolic lest it seem altogether preposterous — Michelangelo Antonioni and Ingmar Bergman died on the same day.

Film Critic David Edelstein on the death of Ingmar Bergman
Source: New York Magazine

Excerpt:"Of all the thoughts that pour into my head on the death of Ingmar Bergman at the age of 89, the sharpest has as much to do with theater as cinema — or, rather, with the feverish interplay between the two media that persisted into the final years of his roiling psyche.

Film Critic Roger Ebert on the Death of Ingmar Bergman
Source: Chicago Sun-Times

Excerpt: "The solitary, poetic, fearful, creative, brave and philosophical mind of Ingmar Bergman has been stilled, and the director is dead at 89.

Ingmar Bergman Really Mattered
Source: TIME

A touching retrospective on one of films most influential masters.

Swedes on Bergman: We Never Appreciated How Big He Was
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The Swedish film world has been paying its tributes to film director Ingmar Bergman, who died on Monday at the age of 89. "It feels empty. This was not so unexpected, but it feels gloomy," said veteran Swedish film critic Nils Petter Sundgren.

Swedish Film Director Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89
Source: The Washington Post

Ingmar Bergman, an Academy Award-winning Swedish writer-director whose name came to define an entire genre of stark movies about the human condition, such as "The Seventh Seal," "Wild Strawberries" and "Persona," has died at his home at the age of 89, Swedish media reported Monda …

Ingmar Bergman, Famed Swedish Film Director, Dies at 89 -
Source: The New York Times

STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) -- Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, died Monday, local media reported. He was 89.

The Seventh Seal (full)
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The entire film

Magic, Wonder, And Even Ghosts: Fanny And Alexander's Christmas
Source: theresalduncan.typepad.com

Wit recommends fellow Swede Ingmar Bergman's Fanny And Alexander for a post-prandial December 25th film rental.

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