Ingmar Bergman stated in 2002 that he considered some of Antonioni's films, including Blowup and La notte, masterpieces for their detached and dreamlike quality, but found the other films boring and noted that he had never understood why Antonioni was held in such esteem.

Andrei Tarkovsky held Bresson in very high regard, noting him and Ingmar Bergman as his two favourite filmmakers, stating " I am only interested in the views of two people: one is called Bresson and one called Bergman ".

The Bergman Festival is a weeklong tribute to the filmmaker held on the island every June.

To benefit the Mary Kay Bergman Memorial Fund, a Memorial Celebration and Concert was held in March 2000.

She succeeded voice actress Mary Kay Bergman ( after Bergman's 1999 suicide ) alongside Mona Marshall as the lead female voice actors on the animated cartoon series South Park, a position she held until 2003, when she left over a contract dispute.

Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film Smiles of a Summer Night, it involves the romantic lives of several couples.

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.

In 1965 he received a joint Erasmus Prize with film director Ingmar Bergman and in 1971 he was made a Commander of the national order of the Legion of Honor by the French Minister of Culture Jacques Duhamel at the Cannes Film Festival.

In 1956, Sullivan flew to Europe and was able to film an interview with Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, and Helen Hayes on the set of the film Anastasia.

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and featured a strong cast, including Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.

The characters that he played onscreen during this period ranged from a serial killer in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943, opposite Teresa Wright ) to an eager police detective in Gaslight ( 1944, with Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury in her film debut ).

Liv Johanne Ullmann ( born 16 December 1938 ) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the " muses " of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

She continued to act in the theatre for most of her career, and became noted for her portrayal of Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, but became wider known once she started to work with eminent Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman.

* The 1963 Ingmar Bergman film The Silence ( or Tystnaden ) features a boy, Johan, who plays with Punch and Judy dolls.

A Little Night Music ( 1973 ), a more traditionally plotted show based on the film Smiles of a Summer Night by Ingmar Bergman, was one of his greatest successes.

In 1955, Swedish director Ingmar Bergman earned a Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival with Smiles of a Summer Night and followed the film with masterpieces The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries.

* July 14 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish film director ( d. 2007 )

Antonioni died aged 94 on July 30, 2007 in Rome, the same day that another renowned film director, Ingmar Bergman, also died.

With this letter began one of the best known love stories in film history, with Bergman and Rossellini both at the peak of their careers.

Though married to Bergman, he had an affair with Sonali Das Gupta, a screenwriter, who was helping develop vignettes for the film.

The films covered include his Neo-Realist films to his films with Ingrid Bergman as well as The Flowers of St. Francis, a film about St. Francis of Assisi.

Crawford then starred as a facially disfigured blackmailer in A Woman's Face ( 1941 ), a remake of a European film which had starred Ingrid Bergman in the lead role three years earlier.

And when film arrived at a pinnacle of auteurism in the 1950s and ' 60s, aligning it with the earlier Modernist aesthetic, some of its most celebrated directors — Bergman, Fellini, Godard — turned naturally to Pierrot.

* Swedish — Bergman, Ingmar: In the Presence of a Clown ( 1997 film for TV ; the Pierrot-like — yet female — Rigmor, the clown of the title, is an important symbolic figure ).

In 1958, the story was made into the Hollywood film The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, starring Ingrid Bergman.

* Gaslight ( 1944 film ), directed by George Cukor, starring Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer and Angela Lansbury, based on the play

According to Allen, the murder occurred after a scene that remains in the film, the sequence in which Annie and Alvy miss the Ingmar Bergman film Face to Face.

Very little background music is heard in the film, a departure for Allen influenced by Ingmar Bergman.

When he arrived home, Sullivan learned he would not be able to air the Bergman material from it.

In " Indiscreet " the technique was famously used to bypass the censors and allow Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman to be in bed together, and even to appear to pat her on the bottom.

Scheele and Torbern Bergman suggested that it might be possible to obtain a new metal by reducing this acid.

This was done when the 1948 Joan of Arc, starring Ingrid Bergman, turned out to be far from the box-office and critical hit that was expected, and was edited down from 145 minutes to 100 minutes for its second run in theatres.

He usually avoids actors ' rehearsing and prefers most scenes to be completed on the first take ; Eastwood's rapid filmmaking has been compared to Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Luc Godard, and the Coen brothers.

At the time of the film's release, critic Dave Kehr of The New York Times declared Moodysson to be " Sweden's most praised filmmaker since Ingmar Bergman ".

After filming the film's opening sequences of the arrival in America, he reshot parts of the restaurant scene to be consistent with the new plot ( bringing Bergman back in a new role as an artist who resolves the subplot of Charlie being unable to pay for dinner ), and added the epilogue in which the Tramp and Purviance are married.

Selznick thought that it was not Dalí's fault, for his work was much finer and much better for the purpose than he ever thought it would be, and although much of Dalí's work was used, one dream sequence depicting Bergman turning into a statue of the Roman goddess Diana was cut.

Huberman, whose name he found on one of the lists and who turns out to be a " classy dame ", throwing a party ( Ingrid Bergman, from Notorious ).

The name was derived from a Dr. Bergman, who provided the land and requested that it be named after her daughter.

Bergman is referred to Wigand, and calls him at his home, only to be steadfastly rebuffed.

Bergman proposes that Wigand could be compelled to speak through a court order arising from unrelated State litigation against Big Tobacco aimed at recovering Medicare and Medicaid costs arising from tobacco-related illnesses.

Through Wigand, Bergman discovers that Big Tobacco have distorted and exaggerated numerous claims, and convinces a reporter from the Wall Street Journal to delay the story until it can be disproven.

The memory was from the beginning found to be insufficient and Carl-Ivar Bergman was given just a few weeks to build and install a ferrite core memory in 1956.

Despite this variety, filmmaker John Huston believed that, regardless of genre, a Buñuel film is so distinctive as to be instantly recognizable, or, as Ingmar Bergman put it — not entirely approvingly — " Buñuel nearly always made Buñuel films.

As it was written in a program note that accompanied the movie's premier " It is a modern poem presented with medieval material that has been very freely handled ... The script in particular — embodies a mid-twentieth century existentialist angst .... Still, to be fair to Bergman, one must allow him his artistic license, and the script's modernisms may be justified as giving the movie's medieval theme a compelling and urgent contemporary relevance ... Yet the film succeeds to a large degree because it is set in the Middle Ages, a time that can seem both very remote and very immediate to us living in the modern world .... Ultimately The Seventh Seal should be judged as a historical film by how well it combines the medieval and the modern.

I wanted to be Ingrid Bergman more than anything else in the world.

As guest Artistic Director at AFI FEST 2010, David Lynch selected Tati's Mon Oncle alongside Hour of the Wolf ( Dir Ingmar Bergman ), Lolita ( Dir Stanley Kubrick ), Rear Window ( Dir Alfred Hitchcock ) and Sunset Boulevard ( Dir Billy Wilder ) to be screened in his sidebar program, explaining that ...

" The show will be the Internet's funny bone ," Bergman said.

* 1985-Eat or be Eaten ( Phil Austin, Peter Bergman and Phil Proctor, RCA Columbia 60566 ) ( 30 min.

However, according to film historian Peter Cowie's notes for the DVD release of the film, while Bergman wanted to recreate as closely as possible the original 1791 production in the Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, he had hoped that the film could be shot in the theatre.

Mike Bergman, founder of BrightPlanet, credited with coining the phrase, has said that searching on the Internet today can be compared to dragging a net across the surface of the ocean: a great deal may be caught in the net, but there is a wealth of information that is deep and therefore missed.