The series, whose official title is "Sexo, erotismo y censura del cine sueco 1950-70", is actually very serious, and beuatifully programmed. Among the titles are Arne Mattson's A Summer of Happiness, Vilgot Sjöman's 491 and two I am Curious films as well as our own Summer with Monika and The Silence.

If you happen to me in Mexico City today (Wednesday), drop by la Cinéteca at eight and listen to me talking dirty. In a serious fashion.

You have used me. For what, I don't know.

Now that you don't need me anymore, you throw me away.                 

Oh, yes, I hear how false it sounds...  "You used me and then you threw me away."  

That's how it is, every word. And these glasses!

[Takes off sunglasses, throws them to the ground.]

Shelf no: J:065
Object: Biographica
Document title: [Planeringskalender 1972]
Year: 1972
No of pages ; size: [120] pp. ; 9 x 25 cm
Author: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918–2007
Commentary: Contains misc. notations, incl. rehearsal schedule for Wild Duck and Ghost Sonata.

No frills.

The note features a portrait of Bergman on the front (with a behind-the-scenes picture from a well-known film in the background), and a landscape of Fårö on the back, but there's more.

Once you have the note in your hand (which, incidentally, is about the right sum for a movie admission and popcorn), look closely, just below Bergman's ear. There's something written there, in microscopic text, which in translation reads as follows:

It belongs to you, the world's most precious chair. Be careful with it. It's very fragile, it breaks easily. The metal, having lived for billions of years, fiftynine thousand metres under ground, has grown weary of human beings, it easily disintegrates into dust just like the empress if you're not careful with it.

Doubtlessly, hardcore Bergman buffs out there recognised the quote from the long television version of Fanny and Alexander. And surely everyone finds the quote unbelievably apt and intelligently chosen in this context – what geniouses have worked around the clock for weeks to come up with that?

Oh, it's just the hard-working people of the Ingmar Bergman Foundation.

And if you thought that quote was well-found, take a closer look further down to the right:

Because I know that with the help of cinema, we can enter into hitherto unknown worlds, realities beyond reality.

Pretty clever quote that one as well, if we may be so bold.

(Read more about the new 200 kronor note here.)

We don't know if we should be proud or upset about this:

For the Fifty Shades audition, Dakota was given a monologue from Persona, Ingmar Bergman’s intense 1966 psychological drama. “She blew us out of the water,” Taylor-Johnson remembers. 'She understood the nuance of that passage and how to play something delicately. Dakota has the ability to play so fragile and vulnerable, but with this underlying strength that makes you feel she is going to triumph.'

Oh, well. Sending a royalty invoice, we're hoping Dakota Johnson's apparent talent will do justice to the 'nuance', 'fragility' and "vulnerability' of the novel (which, according to Salman Rushdie, makes Twilight look like War and Peace).

Title: Kaspers död (Death of Punch) / [by Ingmar Bergman]

Shelf no: E:001

Year: 1942

No of pages ; size: [30] s. ; 29 x 22 cm

Author: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007

Commentary:
Typewritten manuscript (carbon copies) with notes on cover "Lessebo".

No frills.

The Guardian:

It was a double victory for Ivo van Hove’s radical staging of Arthur Miller’s A View from the Bridge at the Young Vic in this year’s Critics’ Circle theatre awards.

The production, which was one of last year’s most acclaimed plays and is transferring to the West End in February, was awarded best actor for Mark Strong’s portrayal of the tragic protagonist, Eddie, while Van Hove was named best director.

Mr. van Hove, a rising star on theatre heaven,has directed no less than four Ingmar Bergman plays, with a celebrated staging of Scenes From a Marriage in New York as his latest.

Read an interview with him here.

To this, we add these breaking news: She will (again) direct Private Confessions for Norwegian Riksteatret, in cooperation with Nationaltheatret!

We are very, very excited.

Title:
Persona / by Ingmar Bergman [with hand-written notes and sceneries]

Shelf no: B:041

Year: 1965

No of pages ; size: 90 s., inb. + bilaga ; 30 x 22 cm

Author: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007

Commentary:
Typewritten manuscript. Shooting script with photos. Supplement 1: Tentative shooting schedule

No frills.