Editor's note: This article was first published in 2009 to coincide with the re-release of Fanny and Alexander in Australian cinemas. Fanny & Alexander is now available to watch at SBS on Demand. See ...

"Here comes my family." The BFI in the UK has revealed a new trailer for the 40th anniversary re-release of the acclaimed 1982 Ingmar Bergman film Fanny and Alexander, a Christmas classic from Sweden.

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Born from dreams of celluloid, Orestes is a Greek-American writer based in London with degrees in Screenwriting, Film Studies, and Comparative Literature, as well as years of experience in ...

Welcome to “Throwback Thursdays,” a new film feature at the Stanford Daily. Every Thursday (hopefully), the Arts & Life section will publish reviews highlighting older or more obscure works — ...

A new opera by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek, directed by Ivo van Hove, aims to capture the lavishness of Ingmar Bergman’s film, in half the time. By Joshua Barone Ingmar Bergman’s film “Fanny and ...

“Don’t act Hamlet, my son. I’m not Queen Gertrude, your kind stepfather is no King of Denmark, and this is not Elsinore Castle, even if it does look gloomy,” Alexander’s mother scolds during Ingmar ...

Ingmar Bergman is one of the most respected names in cinema, which comes with a price. When in The Seventh Seal he had a knight and the embodiment of death play a chess game, he unfortunately ...

Throughout the years with the Criterion Collection, no director has been spotlighted and showcased more than the legendary Ingmar Bergman. The man is responsible for a huge chunk of the Criterion ...

There are no comedies here – late mid-life brought out the full darkness of the Swedish director’s palette – although Fanny and Alexander both delights and shocks as it combines a characteristic ...