Scenes From A Marriage

October 5, 2011
Scenes From A Marriage or Scener ur ett äktenskap (original title)
Call Number: DVD01135
by:  Lars-Owe Carlberg; Ingmar Bergman; Liv Ullmann; Erland Josephson; Bibi Andersson; Jan Malmsjö; Gunnel Lindblom; Sven Nykuist; Siv Lundgren; Inger Pehrsson; Björn Thulin; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Swedish – English subtitles available
Publisher:  New York, N.Y. : Criterion Collection, 2004.
Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1973. Features: video interview with the director, interview with Bergman scholar Peter Cowie, essay. Disc 1: Television verion, scenes 1-3 ; Disc 2: Television verion, scenes 4-6 (1973 ; 297 min.); Disc 3: U.S. theatrical version. Nomiated for 2 1975 Golden Globes. Feature Running Time: 167 mins. Total Running Time for all 3 discs: 466 mins.
Summary: Ten years of Marianne and Johan’s relationship are presented. We first meet them ten years into their marriage. He is a college professor, she a divorce lawyer. They say that they are happily married – unlike their friends Katarina and Peter who openly fight, especially when under the influence of alcohol – but there is a certain detached aloofness in the way they treat each other. In the next ten years, as they contemplate or embark upon divorce and/or known extramarital affairs, they come to differing understandings at each phase of their relationship of what they truly mean to each other. Regardless of if it’s love or hate – between which there is a fine line – they also come to certain understandings of how they can best relate to each other, whether that be as husband and wife, friends, lovers or none of the above.
OCLC #: 56987169
Added: October 5, 2011
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Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks

November 29, 2010
Ingmar Bergman: Four Masterworks 
Call Number: DVD00941-DVD00944
by Allan Ekelund; Ingmar Bergman; Gunnar Björnstrand; Bengt Ekerot; Nils Poppe; Max von Sydow; Bibi Andersson; Inga Gill; Maud Hansson; Inga Landgré; Gunnel Lindblom; Harriet Andersson; Ulla Jacobsson; Gunnar Fischer; Erik Nordgren; Victor Sjöström; Svensk filmindustri.; Criterion Collection (Firm);
Format: DVD
Language: Swedish
Publisher: [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, 2007.
Notes: Smiles of a summer night originally released as a motion picture in 1955 (108 mins); The seventh seal originally released as a motion picture in 1957 (96 mins); Wild strawberries originally released as a motion picture in 1957 (91 mins); The virgin spring originally released as a motion picture in 1960 (89 mins).
Films: 
 
Smiles of a Summer Night DVD00941 |  A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.

The Seventh Seal DVD00942 | In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.

Wild Strawberries DVD00943 | A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into obscurity.

The Virgin Spring DVD00944 | A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father’s house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.

OCLC #: 184953593

Added: November 29, 2010

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Trollflöjten

June 1, 2009
Mozart’s The Magic Flute
Call Number: VHS00916
by Emanuel Schikaneder; Ingmar Bergman; Håkan Hagegård; Irma Urrila; Birgit Nordin; Eric Ericson; Sven Nykvist; Ulrik Cold; Josef Köstlinger; Ragnar Ulfung; Erikson. Elizabeth.; Erik Saedén; Siv Lundgren; Donya Feyer; Karen Erskine; Henny Noremark; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Sveriges radios symfoniorkester.; Sveriges radioskören.;
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Irvington, N.Y. : Janus Films, 1995.
Notes: Originally released in 1973  (134 mins.); Nominated for one 1976 Academy Award;
Summary: The tale of two star-crossed lovers and an impish man whose greatest desire is to find a wife unfolds through glorious music and first-rate voices.
OCLC #: 223113841
Added: June 1, 2009
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Sommarnattens leende

May 8, 2009
Smiles of a Sumer Night
Call Number: VHS00787
by Eva Dahlbeck; Ulla Jacobsson; Harriet Andersson; Ingmar Bergman;
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: [S.l.] : Public Media Inc., 1957, ©1955.
Notes: Originally released in 1955 (110 mins.);
Summary: Eight characters become four couples while vacationing at a country estate. A clever, erotic comedy that inspired the scenario for the Broadway hit A Little night music.
OCLC #: 68746772
Added: May 8, 2009
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Smultronstället

May 7, 2009
Wild Strawberries
Call Number: VHS00784
by Ingmar Bergman; Victor Sjöström; Svensk filmindustri.;
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Connoisseur Video Collection, ©1988.
Notes: Originally released in 1957 (90 mins.); Nominated for one 1960 Academy Award;
Summary: A film classic directed by Ingmar Bergman. Victor Sjöström plays an elderly professor who while travelling to receive an award reviews his life. Flashbacks and symbolism are masterfully employed to show his selfishness, his coldness and his inability to give himself in love. Gradually he comes to terms with his faults and is reconciled to the idea of approaching death.
OCLC #: 62425688
Added: May 7, 2009
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Det Sjunde Inseglet

October 22, 2008
The Seventh Seal or The 7th Seal
Call Number: VHS00175 Copy 1
VHS00175 Copy 2
VHS00175 Copy 3
by Ingmar Bergman; Allan Ekelund; Max von Sydow; Bibi Anderson; Nils Poppe; Gunnar FIscher; Lennart Wallen
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Copy 1: Pearl Entertainment, Inc. 1991; Copy 2: Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, ©1987.; Copy 3: [Chicago] : Home Vision Cinema : Distributed by Public Media, [1994], ©1957.
Notes: Originally released in 1957 (93 mins.); based on the play by Ingmar Bergman;
Summary: In medieval Sweden a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
OCLC #: 156737659, 48915700
Added: October 22, 2008
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Kinematografi

October 21, 2008
Persona
Call Number: VHS00165
by Ingmar Bergman; Liv Ullman; Bibi Andersson
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Sandy Hook, Conn. : Video Images, 1991.
Notes: Originally released in 1966 (83 mins.); Swedish title: Kinematografi; Edition contains program card;
Summary: The genius of Bergman showing his metaphysical expressiveness changing to a deep concern for the human condition. The surface story is about a famous actress who withdraws into silence and the nurse who becomes her companion at an isolated sea-side cottage.
OCLC #: 18100267
Added: October 21, 2008
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Sommarnattens leende

Smiles of a Summer Night
Call Number: VHS00163
by Ingmar Bergman; Allan Ekelund; Gunnar Fischer; Erik Nordgren; Ulla Jacobsson; Harriet Andersson; Gunnar Björnstrand;
Format: VHS
Language: Swedish with English subtitles
Publisher: Los Angeles, Calif. : Embassy Home Entertainment, 1986.
Notes: Originally released in 1955 (108 mins.); Original title: Sommarnattens leende;
Summary: Eight characters become four couples while vacationing at a country estate.
OCLC #: 26737008
Added: October 21, 2008
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