Belgian van Hove's celebrated adaptation of Scenes from a Marriage opened in Amsterdam already in 2005, and has since had guest performances on a number of European stages. It has now been translated by author, director and Broadway veteran Emily Mann and will be perforned from September (opening night date not set) at the New York Theatre Workshop.

Ivo van Hove holds, by the way, with his productions of (besides Scenes), Cries and Whispers, Persona and From the Life of the Marionettes, world record in number of Bergman plays directed. They have all been tremendously reviewed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tR4qFsyp1Q

In which, among other things, we find one of the branches of Espaḉo Sesc, where soon (2 August) their production of From the Life of the Marionettes opens.

Picture shows Milena Toscano (Katarina) and Pedro Osório (Peter).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kno3xDw27bY

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Read the programme here.

Masaki Kobayashi, Ningen no joken (1959).

Ingmar Bergman, The Seventh Seal (1957).

Cannes film festival is over. As for me, I'm content with best* filmmaker ever walking away with the jury prize.

But nothing is like it used to be. As in 1973, when Ingmar Bergman launched his latest film, posing with two Ingrid Bergman (respectively: wife and actress, with whom he would later work).

But isn't this picture even more adorable?

Bergman and wife, with Harry Schein (collaborator) to the right. Not sure about woman beside him, though (most definitely not his wife). To the left, almost as tanned as Harry, is Kenne Fant.

* Correction: next to best!
Regards,
The management

Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali, 1929)

and

Thanks to Martin Florio!

As the company puts it:

By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical Persona, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema’s most influential creations. Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth.

• New, 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack on the Blu-ray
• New visual essay on the film’s prologue by Ingmar Bergman scholar Peter Cowie
• New interviews with actor Liv Ullmann and filmmaker Paul Schrader
• Excerpted archival interviews with Bergman, Ullmann, and actor Bibi Andersson
• On-set footage, with audio commentary by Bergman historian Birgitta Steene
• Liv & Ingmar, a 2012 feature documentary directed by Dheeraj Akolkar
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Thomas Elsaesser, an excerpt from the 1970 book Bergman on Bergman, and an excerpted 1977 interview with Andersson