Showing posts with label Ingrid Bergman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ingrid Bergman. Show all posts
Friday, 3 February 2017

New year re-views 1 - Journey To Italy

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Widely misunderstood and shamefully ignored at the time of its original release in 1954 (though filmed in 1953), but now recognised as si...
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Tuesday, 22 November 2016

Dolce Vita Confidential

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Christmas has come early for me with this terrific read, a new book on that Roman La Dolce Vita era, which really began in 1958 and into ...
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Friday, 4 November 2016

THE Italian double bill ?

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A friend and I were discussing fantasy double bills, here is my Italian choice ... two of our timeless favourites, disc...
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Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Ingrid Bergman in her own words

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A fascinating insight into the life and times of Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982) , her stardom and the toll it imposed. The film follows Bergm...
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Tuesday, 6 September 2016

Ingmar - a round dozen

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My friend Mike in San Francisco (my oldest pal, we were penfriends when we were 17 - what people did before the internet and Facebook) an...
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Friday, 29 July 2016

Orry, Ingrid, Tab documentaries .....

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Documentaries on movies and movie-makers don't seem to turn up here in the UK. We first mentioned Australian director Gillian Armstro...
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Wednesday, 1 June 2016

A Matter of Time, 1976

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Finally, thanks to rare-movie-hound Jerry, a look at Vincente Minnelli's last feature, A MATTER OF TIME , from 1976. This one always ...
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Sunday, 27 March 2016

Goodbye Again, again

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GOODBYE AGAIN  is a nice entry to those early '60s sudsers like  IMITATION OF LIFE ,  THE BEST OF EVERYTHING ,  A SUMMER PLACE ,  BAC...
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Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Still Notorious after all these years ...

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NOTORIOUS , Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 classic, does not look or feel like it is 70 years old. This is surely the high-point of Hitch...
Tuesday, 1 December 2015

Some choice Oscar moments

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Remember when the Academy Awards shows were exciting back in the 1970s as we saw the great stars presenting or collecting prizes. Before mu...
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Monday, 19 October 2015

Ingrid, Gary, Flora - still of the day

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Its SARATOGA TRUNK of course, filmed in 1943 but not released until 1945 when Ingrid Bergman was at the height of her 1940s popularity. ...
Wednesday, 7 October 2015

Ingrid and Tab: 2 new documentaries ....

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INGRID BERGMAN IN HER OWN WORDS and TAB HUNTER CONFIDENTIAL - whats not to love, if they don't get much exposure in cinemas, th...
Monday, 31 August 2015

Ingrid Bergman's centenary

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Its Ingid Bergman's centenary - she was born on 29 August 1915, and died on the same date in 1982 (that year Grace Kelly and Romy Schne...
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Monday, 4 May 2015

Ingrid at Cannes ...

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After the Awards Season, the Film Festival circuit gets underway... I like the new Cannes Film Festival poster for this year, following t...