Again, more on Bergman.

"In the middle of the phone call, it popped out: 'Listen, I have a room here at Fårö, it's five by five meters. Here I've collected everything imaginable, you see, it's a damned kitchen midden. Would you like to take a look at it?' How can you answer such a question? You figuratively and almost literally curtsy over the telephone and say, 'Yes, please, Mr Bergman.'" Maaret Koskinen, who would find that "the rewards were beyond all expectation," has an intriguing piece on Bergman the writer, an excerpt from her book, In the Beginning Was the Word: Ingmar Bergman and His Early Writings.

Also in Film International: "Despite Bergman's ultimate repudiation of the trilogy concept, the release of the three works together as a set by Criterion indicates that, while their lineage is now uncertain, the union of these films is not easily ignored, and the tendency to view them as a whole quite illuminating." Liza Palmer on Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light and The Silence.

Meanwhile, Premiere's Glenn Kenny explains why it's taken him a while to get around to responding to Jonathan Rosenbaum's New York Times op-ed and then why he feels "this piece winds up being one of those things out of which no good can come." In the comments section, JR responds. And Harry Tuttle's still sorting through the aftermath.

Earlier: "Ingmar Bergman, 1918- 2007" and More on Bergman."

Posted by dwhudson at August 20, 2007 6:02 AM