Tag: Gunnar Björnstrand

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WILD STRAWBERRIES

Michael J. Casey

Dr. Isak Borg is a 78-year-old professor and will be receiving an honorary degree tomorrow. We know this, because he tells us. Borg also tells us about his son, his career and the wife that died years ago. He tells us everything we need to know about him, but the most telling thing he reveals is this, “Perhaps I should add that I am an old pedant, which at times has been rather trying for myself and those around me.” Writer/director Ingmar Bergman needs only 157 words of narration to open Wild Strawberries and tells us everything necessary about Dr. … Continue reading WILD STRAWBERRIES

In Their Words

In Their Words – Thursday, March 28, 2013

Michael J. Casey

“I think I have made just one picture that I really like, and that is Winter Light. That is my only picture about which I feel that I have started here and ended there and that everything along the way has obeyed me. Everything is exactly as I wanted to have it, in every second of this picture. I couldn’t make this picture today; it’s impossible; but I saw it a few weeks ago together with a friend and I was very satisfied.” –Ingmar Bergman Continue reading In Their Words – Thursday, March 28, 2013