Archival object of the day, a propos of the following:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIGB_mvICoA

We didn't even know a press conference ever took place, but obviously it did. Thank you, Internet! (And more specifically, Eyes on Cinema.) Of the planned omnibus film directed by Bergman and Fellini, nothing came out save for Bergman's fascinating, unpublished manuscript, still waiting to be ... well, something (published? made into a film? or a stage play, perhaps?).

It certainly deserves it (and the story features SM sex and lesbianism, too.)

Object: Continuity script, TV film

Shelf no: B:097

Document title: Scener ur ett äktenskap [Ulla Stattin's continuity script]

Year: 1972

No of pages: [513] s., lösbl. i pärm

Author: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007

Commentary:
Handwritten pages interfoliated with type-written pages with handwritten notes. Interfoliated plastic folders with polaroid pictures, so called continuity stills.

No frills.

You can tell by all stagings of Autumn Sonata. If you're quick, you can catch the ones in Stockholm and Perugia (Seoul is too late, I'm afraid). Also, the celebrated Argentinian production of last year will be on a Spanish tour, for example in Barcelona in November.

Fun fact: Bergman is sometimes considered a little gloomy. And since autumn is often regarded as the perfect season for this mood, one would think it to be featured a lot in Bergman. However, Autumn Sonata is the only of Bergman's works where the season occurs in the title. To be compared with another, which have several: Summer with Monika, Summer Interlude, Smiles of a Summer Night.

Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt was right:

Nu är den stolta vår utsprungen,
den vår de svaga kalla höst.

Now proud and glorious spring is here,
dubbed as autumn by the weak.

– Höstens vår / Autumn's spring, 1902.

Among Larsson's many earlier achievements, we count to no less than four stagings of three Bergman plays: Autumn Sonata and Scenes From a Marriage at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, and two productions of Fanny and Alexander, in Aarhus (which he was heading at the time) and the Royal Dramatic Theatre. They were all great successes.

Our heartfelt congratulations to Stefan and the Betty Nansen Theatre!

Read more here (in Danish).

That is, the annual awards recognising achievement in theatre. And this year, the magnificent Astrid Meyerfeldt is nominated to the best actress award for Marianne. Very well-deserved! Our heart-felt congratulations to her and the Schauspiel Stuttgart.

And come November, there is one more chance to see her performance.

Object: Il Leone d’Oro 1983.

Shelf no: R:016

Year: 1983

Commentary: Statuette. Guilded bronze lion.

No frills.

Staged by Essi Räisänen at the Lappeenrannan teatteri.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iW6qAGLcAw

Title:
The Seventh Seal : film / by Ingmar Bergman [with hand-written notes and sceneries]

Shelf no: B:202

Year: 1956

No of pages ; size: 128 pp., bound + suppl. ; 30 x 22 cm

Author: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007

Commentary:
Typewritten manuscript. Shooting script. Supplement 1: 6 pages with handwritten comments and 1 copy NAD, 5 pp. Supplement 2: Shooting schedule

No frills.

The play opens at the Teatro Stabile dell'Umbria, Perugia, 5 September. Between 9 and 21 December it will be performed at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano.

Fondazione Brunello Cucinelli is co-producing, so rest assured that Charlotte, Eva, Helena and Viktor will be nicely dressed. (And no, we cannot comment on the rumour that they will be be sponsoring the Ingmar Bergman Foundation with work clothes.)

Title: [Arbetsbok nr 1]

Shelf no: F:094

Year: 1938

No of pages ; size: [53] pp. ; 21 x 17 cm

Author: Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007

Commentary:
Black notebook written with ink and pencil. Many loose pages. Different drafts: "Family idyll" 7 pp; notes on Outward Bound and "Thoughts on lighting" 20 pp; "A strange story" 11 pp; "Judas", 7 pp; as well as several fragments. On inside of cover: "To my Babs!", dated Smådalarö 15 June 1938, "Ingmar".

No frills.