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

He is one of the very few directors to win the Palme D ' or twice, winning the prestigious award again in 1992 for The Best Intentions, based on the autobiographical script by Ingmar Bergman.

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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.

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.

" He has also cited filmmakers like Satyajit Ray, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, Federico Fellini as a major influence on his career.

In the 1950s Ingmar Bergman was the Director and Chief Stage Director of Malmö Stadsteater and many of his actors, like Max von Sydow and Ingrid Thulin were brought to stardom through his films.

* 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.

Moreover, his dramas were repeatedly staged in the most important theatres in the whole world by the prominent directors such as Jorge Lavelli, Alf Sjöberg, Ingmar Bergman along with Jerzy Jarocki and Jerzy Grzegorzewski in Poland.

In Europe, Art Cinema gains wider distribution and sees movements like la Nouvelle Vague ( The French New Wave ) featuring French filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Jean-Luc Godard ; Cinéma Vérité documentary movement in Canada, France and the United States ; Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, Chilean filmmaker Alexandro Jodorowsky and Polish filmmakers Roman Polanski and Wojciech Jerzy Has produced original and offbeat masterpieces and the high-point of Italian filmmaking with Michelangelo Antonioni and Federico Fellini making some of their most known films during this period.

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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 )

Swedish filmmakers like Ingmar Bergman and Vilgot Sjöman contributed to sexual liberation with sexually themed films that challenged conservative international standards.

He and Ingmar Bergman died both the same day.

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

This affair caused a great scandal in some countries ( Bergman and Rossellini were both married to other people ); the scandal intensified when Bergman became pregnant with Roberto Ingmar Rossellini.

* Underground cult filmmaker Carlos Atanes stated that Stanley Kubrick, David Lean and Rocco Siffredi were his main film references and he also said about Siffredi's work that " Agnes ’ scene in “ Rocco invades Poland ” or Gabriella Kerez ’ pool scene from “ True Anal Stories 9 ” are deeper than any Theo Angelopoulos ’ movie and show us the human inside more accurately than any Ingmar Bergman ’ s film.

In 2002, D. C. newspaper Roll Call first reported the possible connection of Ingmar Guandique to the case, with little effect on the news media's focus on Condit.

The 2002 release of Lil ' Beethoven, their " genre-defying opus ", as well as the more recent albums Hello Young Lovers ( 2006, their 20th studio album ), Exotic Creatures Of The Deep ( 2008 ), and their latest fantasy musical The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman ( 2009 – 2010 ) have brought Sparks renewed critical and commercial success, and seen them continue to " steer clear of pop conventions.

Sparks albums that Dean has contributed to include Plagiarism ( 1997 ) Lil ' Beethoven ( 2002 ) Hello Young Lovers ( 2006 ) Exotic Creatures of the Deep ( 2008 ) and " The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman " ( 2009 ).

The distributor is credited with introducing numerous films, now considered masterpieces of world cinema, to American audiences, including the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Sergei Eisenstein, Ingmar Bergman, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, François Truffaut, Yasujirō Ozu and many other well-regarded directors.

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.

As a playwright, Moberg has established himself as the author of 38 works for the stage or for radio ( 1919-1973 ), some of them has become lighter classics of the Swedish stage and TV ( even feature films ) and directed by directors like Ingmar Bergman ( Lea och Rakel / Leah and Rachel ; Malmö City Theatre 1955 ) and Alf Sjöberg ( Domaren / The Judge ; 1960 ).

In the 1950s, some of the well-known films with artistic sensibilities include La Strada ( 1954 ), a film about a young woman who is forced to go to work for a cruel and inhumane circus performer in order to support her family and eventually coming to terms with her situation, Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet ( 1956 ), centering around family with a lack of faith amongst it but with a son who believes that he is Jesus Christ and convinced that he is capable of performing miracles, Federico Fellini's Nights of Cabiria ( 1957 ), which deals with a prostitute's failed attempts to find love, and her suffering and rejections, and Wild Strawberries ( 1957 ), by Ingmar Bergman, whose narrative concerns an elderly medical doctor and professor whose nightmares lead him to re-evaluate his life, and The 400 Blows ( 1959 ) by François Truffaut, whose main character is a young man trying to come of age despite the abuse from his parents, schoolteachers, and society in general.

The play afterward attracted some of the twentieth century's most celebrated directors, including Max Reinhardt, Olof Molander, Antonin Artaud, Ingmar Bergman, Roger Blin, Robert Wilson, Mike Dempsey, and Robert Lepage.

He says that some of his favorite filmmakers are Stanley Kubrick, Ingmar Bergman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Roberto Rossellini, and Abbas Kiarostami.

He became interested in European cinema, focusing first on the films of Ingmar Bergman, and then on the French nouvelle vague filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard and, most especially, Alain Resnais.

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 was Fassbinder's first effort to create what he declared he aspired to: a cinematic statement of the human condition that would transcend national boundaries as the films of Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman and Federico Fellini had done.

The term " expressionist " is also sometimes used to refer to stylistic devices thought to resemble those of German Expressionism, such as Film Noir cinematography or the style of several of the films of Ingmar Bergman.

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 ).

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.

Ingmar Bergman achieves his greatness through thought and soul-searching, Alfred Hitchcock built his films with meticulous craftsmanship, and Luis Buñuel used his fetishes and fantasies to construct barbed jokes about humanity.

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman lived and died on Fårö and several of his films were filmed there, among them Through a Glass Darkly ( 1961 ), Persona ( 1966 ), Hour of the Wolf ( 1968 ), Shame ( 1968 ), The Passion of Anna ( 1969 ), and Scenes from a Marriage ( 1972 ),, as well as Liv Ullmann ’ s Faithless ( 2000 ), based on a Bergman screenplay.

His realistic films, with a lyrical photography in which nature is prominent, have placed him in the first rank of modern Swedish film directors along with Ingmar Bergman and Bo Widerberg.

Von Sydow had never appeared in an English-language film and was best known for his performances in Ingmar Bergman ’ s dramatic films.

He also repeatedly watched European cinema, such as films by Federico Fellini, Ingmar Bergman, Michelangelo Antonioni, and Jean-Pierre Melville.

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 ).

Despite his success with films Torment ( 1944 ) and Miss Julie, Sjöberg was above all, and foremost, a stage director ; perhaps the greatest at Dramaten ( alongside, first, Olof Molander and, later, Ingmar Bergman ).

Many of von Trotta ’ s full-length films have been matched up to Ingmar Bergman ’ s features from the 1960s and 70s, which is no small feat.

When I came to Paris, I saw several films of Ingmar Bergman, and all of the sudden I understood what cinema could be.

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.