Several critics have compared the film favorably to Bergman's 1973 film, Scenes from a Marriage, including Joseph McBride in Variety, who found it Allen's " most three-dimensional film to date " with an ambition equal to Bergman's best even as the co-stars become the " contemporary equivalent of ...

Some of his most memorable film roles include knight Antonius Block in Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( the first of his eleven films with Bergman, and the film that includes the iconic scenes in which he plays chess with Death ), Jesus in The Greatest Story Ever Told, Oktober in The Quiller Memorandum, Father Merrin in The Exorcist, Karl Oskar in The Emigrants, Joubert the assassin in Three Days of the Condor, Ming the Merciless in the 1980 version of Flash Gordon, the villain Blofeld in Never Say Never Again, Frederick in Hannah and Her Sisters, and Lassefar in Pelle the Conqueror, for which he received his first Academy Award nomination.

It is a story told as a sermon might be delivered: an allegory ... each scene is at once so simple and so charged and layered that it catches us again and again ... Somehow all of Bergman's own past, that of his father, that of his reading and doing and seeing, that of his Swedish culture, of his political burning and religious melancholy, poured into a series of pictures which carry that swell of contributions and contradictions so effortlessly that you could tell the story to a child, publish it as a storybook of photographs and yet know that the deepest questions of religion and the most mysterious revelation of simply being alive are both addressed.

This is most likely Ingmar Bergman's Winter Light, also released in 1962.

The cast included one of Bergman's most well known actors, Erland Josephson.

This film, as well as Bergman's Sommaren med Monika ( The Summer with Monika ), caused an international uproar, not least in the United States, where the films were charged with violating standards of decency.

Bergman's work has served as a large influence on several of Allen's films, including Annie Hall.

After being seen in Bergman's Academy Award – winning films and having been first choice for the title role of Dr. No, von Sydow finally went to America after agreeing to star in the film which led to much greater recognition, in the role of Jesus in George Stevens'all-star epic The Greatest Story Ever Told ( 1965 ).

In both films, a large theatrical family gather for three successive year's celebrations ( Thanksgiving in Allen's film, Christmas in Bergman's ).

Bergman's films were difficult to market commercially and thus foreign capital was not available to finance the film.

In addition to the threat of television, there was also increasing competition from foreign films, such as Vittorio De Sica's Bicycle Thieves ( 1948 ), the Swedish film Hon dansade en sommar ( English title: One Summer of Happiness ) ( 1951 ), and Ingmar Bergman's Sommaren med Monika ( Summer with Monika ) ( 1953 ).

" Hanserik Hjertén for Arbetaren started his review by praising the cinematography, but soon went on to describe the film as " a horror film for children " and that beyond the superficial, it reminds a lot of Bergman's " sophomoric films from the 40s.

During this period De Laurentiis made a number of successful and acclaimed films, including The Scientific Cardplayer ( 1972 ), Serpico ( 1973 ), Death Wish ( 1974 ), Mandingo ( 1975 ), Three Days of the Condor ( 1975 ), The Shootist ( 1976 ), Drum ( 1976 ), Ingmar Bergman's The Serpent's Egg ( 1977 ), Ragtime ( 1981 ), Conan the Barbarian ( 1982 ) and Blue Velvet ( 1986 ).

For many years she worked regularly with Ingmar Bergman ; among other films, Thulin appeared in Bergman's Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), The Magician ( 1958, where she acted dressed as a boy ), in Winter Light ( 1962 ), as well as The Silence ( 1963 ) and Cries and Whispers ( 1972 ).

It was set in Sweden on the island of Gotland, close to Fårö, where many of Bergman's films had been shot.

In the collection, The Committee of Sleep, Harvard psychologist Deirdre Barrett identifies modern dream-inspired art such as paintings including Jasper Johns's Flag, much of the work of Jim Dine and Salvador Dalí, novels ranging from " Sophie's Choice " to works by Anne Rice and Stephen King and films including Robert Altman's Three Women, John Sayles Brother from Another Planet and Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries.

Both had achieved international recognition as two of Ingmar Bergman's favorite actors, appearing in many of his films.

" In his book, A Vision of Swedish Cinema, Widerberg concluded that Bergman's films almost exclusively dealt with issues between people directed upwards and seldom sideways.

It was the first of Bergman's films to bring the director international success, due to its exposure at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Influential European films included Fritz Lang's two-film series Die Nibelungen: Siegfrieds Tod and Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache ( 1924 ), Sergei Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ) and Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( 1957 ), while in France there were many versions of the story of Joan of Arc.

miscast and that the movie was not like Bergman's past films.

Nykvist would eventually become Bergman's full-time cinematographer and push the director's work in a new direction, away from the theatrical look of his earlier films.

He worked as sole cameraman on Bergman's Oscar-winning films The Virgin Spring in 1959 and Through a Glass Darkly in 1960.

Other noteworthy European films which contained nudity include Era Lui, Si Si ( 1952, with Sophia Loren ), Ingmar Bergman's Summer with Monika ( 1953 ), Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le flambeur ( 1956, with Isabelle Corey, then aged 16 ), François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player ( 1960 ), Brigitte Bardot's casual nude scenes in Contempt ( 1963 ) by Jean-Luc Godard, the French film The Game Is Over ( 1966, with Jane Fonda ), Luis Buñuel's Belle de Jour ( 1967, with Catherine Deneuve ), and Isadora ( 1968, with Vanessa Redgrave ).

Influential European films, often with a nationalist agenda, included the German Nibelungenlied ( 1924 ), Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky ( 1938 ) and Bergman's The Seventh Seal ( 1957 ), while in France there were many Joan of Arc sequels.

Among Bergman's favorite shows were Jonny Quest, The Flinstones, and Wait ' til Your Father Gets Home, which she considered a " precursor to The Simpsons ".

Starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder, the film was written by Brooks, Andrew Bergman, Richard Pryor, Norman Steinberg, and Al Uger, and was based on Bergman's story and draft.

She went on to direct the Bergman-penned Faithless and in 2003 reprised her role from Scenes from a Marriage in Saraband, Bergman's final telemovie.

" Send in the Clowns " is a song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's film Smiles of a Summer Night.

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Some spaghettis also crossed over into the acid genre, such as Enzo G. Castellari's mystical Keoma ( released in 1976 ), a Western reworking of Ingmar Bergman's metaphysical The Seventh Seal.

Stig Björkman sees some similarity to Ingmar Bergman's simple and consistent title design, although Allen says that his own choice is a cost-saving device.

The main characters ' visit to Alvy ’ s childhood echo Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries and the school scenes are reminiscent of Federico Fellini's later work.

von Sydow plays chess with Death in Ingmar Bergman's " The Seventh Seal.

Film critic Roger Ebert has said, " To appreciate a film like Written on the Wind probably takes more sophistication than to understand one of Ingmar Bergman's masterpieces, because Bergman's themes are visible and underlined, while with Sirk the style conceals the message.

Part of the film's structure and background is borrowed from Ingmar Bergman's Fanny and Alexander.

At one of the parties that her mother hosted for British émigré performers in their Laurel Canyon home, Lansbury met the casting director for the upcoming film Gaslight ( 1944 ), and he offered her the part of Nancy Oliver, Ingrid Bergman's conniving maid.

This is sometimes called the crisis of the Late Middle Ages and Barbara Tuchman regards the 14th century as " a distant mirror " of the 20th century in a way that echoes Bergman's sensibilities.

" Bragg notes that the concept of the " Silence of God " in the face of evil, or the pleas of believers or would-be-believers, may be influenced by the punishments of silence meted out by Bergman's father, a chaplain in the State Lutheran Church.

Interestingly, in Bergman's original radio play sometimes translated as A Painting on Wood, the figure of Death in a Dance of Death is represented not by an actor, but by silence, " mere nothingness, mere absence ... terrifying ... the void.

To play it well, to live, is to love and not to hate the body and the mortal as the Church urges in Bergman's metaphor.

In the final scene of the 1968 film De Düva ( mock Swedish for " The Dove "), a 15-minute pastiche of Bergman's work generally and his Wild Strawberries in particular, the protagonist plays badminton against Death and wins when the droppings of a passing dove strike Death in the eye.