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Movies Re-Watched in 2018 (38 movies items)"May 21st Directed by: Ingmar Bergman 2nd Viewing Previous Rating: 3 After: 3.5"
“Since this movie is a huge classic and is very often considered as one of the best movies directed by Ingmar Bergman, I was really eager to check it out and I had some really high expectations. Well, to be honest, as usual with this director, I had a rather hard time to connect with the damned thing. It didn't help that I saw a very poor version on YouTube so maybe I should give it another chance in the future. Still, the fact that I didn't connect with this movie was probably because I'm not smart enough and not because it wasn't a good movie, that's for sure. Eventually, as usual with Bergman's work, I enjoyed more thinking afterwards about his movies than actually watching them and this one was a perfect example. First of all, even though our Western world is getting older and older, we” read more
Film Journal 2018 (179 movies items)"I had heard this is one of the more cheery Bergman films. I couldn't help but laugh in the back of a full theater as the film starts with a nightmare sequence in which a man meets another with a rather disturbing face as the clocks that spell our inevitable doom ring."
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Project #1 -1001 Movies I Must see Before I die- (1167 movies items)" Rating iMDB: 8.2 (ca. 70 000 votes) My Rating: 8/10 Genre: Drama/Romance The Plot: After living a life marked by coldness, an aging professor is forced to confront the emptiness of his existence. Source: iMDB.com "
Nick's Top 100 Films (100 movies items)""Cinema is most often analogized with dreaming (see Hollywood as “dream factory”), but it is also a kind of remembering: it manufactures an immediate past, and thus makes us retrospectively and prospectively older. Bergman’s Wild Strawberries starts with a dream and ends with a memory, aligning its beauty with the beauty of its seventy-seven-year-old star, the great Swedish actor and director Victor Sjöström." - James Schamus"
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