The Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection (Persona / Shame / Hour of the Wolf / The Passion of Anna / The Serpent's Egg)
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Actor: Bibi Andersson, Gunnar Björnstrand, Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow, Sigge FürstDirector: Ingmar Bergman
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Sven Nykvist
Producer: Ingmar Bergman
Writer: Ingmar Bergman
Producer: Dino De Laurentiis
Producer: Harold Nebenzal
Producer: Horst Wendlandt
Producer: Lars-Owe Carlberg
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 459 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-04-27
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: MGM
DVD Reviews of The Ingmar Bergman Special Edition DVD Collection (Persona / Shame / Hour of the Wolf / The Passion of Anna / The Serpent's Egg)
DVD Review: Great Movies, Masterpieces.... mediocre MGM DVD management
Summary: 4 Stars
The "Personality Disintegration" collection
I can spend hours (and pages) talking about Bergman and what his work means to me and how it still affects generations of movie makers all over the world.. but i can't here
You may like Ingmar Bergman or not.This will never change the fact that he's one of the most important movie makers in the modern cinema (period)
He started movie making in the40's (while keeping up with his Theatre)
It wasn't until the 50's when he made his international breakthrough (Smiles of the summer nights, The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries)
But his "real" breakthrough was when he started (1961: Through a glass darkly)a brand new technique in cinema (The Chamber Cinema), helped by a brilliant cinematographer (Sven Nykvist)
In 1966, Bergman started (also on his island Faro) a new theme, Personality Disintegration of the modern man (i.e. Post Modern cinema).
This collection has all the movies of the era (1966-1969): Persona/Hour of The Wolf/Shame/The Passion of Anna,and one from 1977 (different theme): The Serpent's Egg. The collection also has an extra DVD with extra features about Bergman in that era.
This era (1960's) was Bergman most intense production... a climax.
Persona (1966), is the most experimental movie he ever made, a "masterpiece" in psycho-analysis. A growing relation between an actress (Liv Ullman) and her nurse (Bibi Anderson) after the actress decided to stop talking.
Also it's one of his early "self-conscious cinema" works.This movie started the "disintegration" theme.and his closure was "It's All Nothing!"
Hour of the Wolf (1968), featuring Max Von Sydow (from the seventh seal), is a "beautiful" presentation about the inner demons and ghosts, and the struggle, the film starts and ends just like a documentary...(in a form of an horror movie)trying to find the reason for the disappearance of the artist.The actor(Sydow) will lead also the 2 remaining movies of this series, a continuous universal destruction.
While Hour of The wolf is a struggle with one's internal monsters, Shame (1968) is a struggle with the outside world chaos and horror:The War,and how the outside non-logical violence will "decompensate" the fragile equilibrium of the protagonist,leading to another example (but basically the same) disintegration.
The Passion of Anna (1969),is my "personal favorite" of this era(though it's not considered as important as Persona)it's his most "free form" cinema made, and the complete and ultimate humiliation and disintegration of the modern man (the artist... etc)
At the end of the movie, Bergman zooms in at the actor till he physically "disintegrate" and you can listen to Bergman's voice saying: "This time they call him Andreas Winkelman"... indicating it's universal and continuous...
The Serpent's Egg (1977) is far from this era (but it's also an MGM so...let's fit it in)...one of his only two "English talking" works (other than the touch)... a very pessimistic movie... done when Bergman was in exile (forced to leave Sweden for a Tax issue... that turned to be nothing later)... it's one of his rare works that indicates a place and time (Germany 1920's) and the horror then... the leader actor is David Carradine (Bill... in Kill Bill Vol2) with Liv Ullman.
Over all this collection is very "precious" since it collects these "high peaks" in his works (1966-1969), there's a very mediocre audio commentary by Marc Gervais (but I prefer Peter Cowie who did a better job elsewhere)... I learned from elsewhere that MGM chopped the original movies to fit on those DVD...subsequently they got rid of a lot of materials (instead of providing full versions available), something that emphasizes the feeling that only respectful art-house DVD brands (like the prestigious CRITERION COLLECTION) should be dealing with priceless pieces like these -no matter how overpriced they might be-.
So instead of 5 stars, I'm giving only 4... for bad bad execution.
But after all it remains a BERGMAN !!!!
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