Word: film
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shoppers. In fact, the Communists seem to be erecting a new matriarchy. Two weeks ago 80 million women were "organized" to see the new film, Silver Blossoms in the Sky, the story of China's female paratroopers. And in Shanghai, Peking and Canton, one Swiss traveler observed the weirdest sight of all-long lines of dutiful men who had been sent out by their women before dawn to wait, shopping baskets in hand, for the markets to open...
Confined by his budget to black-and-white film, he exploits the expressive possibilities of light perhaps more fully than any director alive. And he uses sound-and silence-with the skill and sensitivity of a composer. With subtle verve and dazzling control, he can alternate dreamy love with Gothic horror or wonderfully bawdy hilarity. He is equally at home with Wildean wit and low Shakespearean vaudeville. Like a gadfly, Bergman buzzes about his favorite target: the normal, healthy, inadequate male. ("Grown men are so rare," one of his women says sweetly to her husband, "that we pick the child...
From Hate to Hope. The struggle begins in Bergman's first script, where it is expressed as a young man's attempt to escape the influence of a cold and evil old man. He fails. In Bergman's early films the evil old man is gradually transformed into an evil mother (Illicit Interlude), who tells her son he will never be able to live his life. He drowns. Then dramatically in The Naked Night, one of Bergman's most powerful films, the hero after a moral and physical ordeal kills a bear. One Jungian analyst, after...
...spiritual sense). But nothing is born, and in The Magician Bergman examines the reason for the failure-lack of faith. His magician-hero, made up to resemble Christ, has supernatural powers, but he listens to rational objections, doubts himself, loses his powers. But in the last reel of the film, after long sufferings in obscurity, the magician is "called at last" to perform in the presence of the King. And in the latest picture, The Virgin Spring, God makes his first miraculous intervention in the world of Ingmar Bergman. On the spot where the beautiful virgin is brutally done...
...idyl looks too good to last. One of them skeptically recalls a line from a Bergman script: "Happiness is a thick, paralyzing pastry settling down on one's everyday life." But so far happiness has not stifled Bergman's creative inspiration. Last week most of his next film, a comedy called The Devil's Eye, was in the can, and he was hard at work on the script of another picture. And it will take him a dozen years, he expects, to make all the other movies he has in mind. He will probably make most...