Bibi Andersson
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Swedish
Description
Traveling to accept an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg-masterfully played by veteran director Victor Sjöström-is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and make peace with the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, WILD STRAWBERRIES dramatizes one man's remarkable voyage of self-discovery. This richly humane masterpiece, full of iconic imagery, is a treasure from the...
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Based very loosely on the intricate novel by Joanne Greenberg. A young woman's devotion to a childhood fantasy kingdom has taken over her entire life and causes her endless pain and degradation. Placed in a mental hospital, she has the great good fortune to have a truly caring therapist who tries to help her accept reality, even though reality isn't so great either.
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Swedish
Description
An old professor dreams of his own death, and, haunted by memories of his life, determines to open himself to love.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special ed.].
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
8) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
Special edition.
Language
Swedish
Description
A nurse in charge of an actress who has stopped speaking soon finds that their two personalities are melding into one.
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
With the mysterious arrival of Babette, a refugee from France's civil war, life for two pious sisters and their tiny hamlet begins to change. Before long, Babette has convinced them to try something other than boiled codfish and ale bread--a gourmet French meal! Her feast scandalizes the elders, except for the visiting General. Just who is this strangely talented Babette, who has terrified this pious town with the prospect of losing their souls for...
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
Swedish
Description
A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.
11) The girls
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
Swedish
Description
Three actresses prepare for their road trip for a theater production of Lysistrata, Aristophanes' classic comedic play about war and women. As they deal with issues in their private lives, they realize the similarities they have with the characters.
12) Persona
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Swedish
Description
A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic muteness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.
13) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Swedish
Description
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.
14) The seventh seal
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
RSDL dual-layer ed.; standard format (1.33:1).
Language
Swedish
Description
"After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess" -- Container.
15) Smultronstället
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
Swedish
Description
Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg, forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
In honor of Ingmar Bergman's one hundredth birthday, the Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of his films ever released on home video. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. The struggles...
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