The Criterion Collection Complete

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) From The Life Of The Marionettes [1980] Spine #0000A Blu-ray Made during his self-imposed exile in Germany, Ingmar Bergman's From the Life of the Marionettes  offers a lacerating portrait of a destructive marriage and a complex psychological analysis of a murder. Businessman Peter nurses fantasies of killing his wife, Katarina, until a prostitute becomes his surrogate prey. In the aftermath of the crime, Peter and Katarina's psychiatrist and others attempt to explain its roots. Jumping back and forth in time, this compelling film moves seamlessly between seduction and repulsion, and the German cast is superb. 104 minutes Black & White/Color Monaural in German 1:66:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Ingmar Bergman was 62 when he directed From the Life of the Marionettes . Other Bergman films in the Collection: #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Crisis (1946) #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: A Ship To India (1947) #0000A/...

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) Fårö Document 1979 [1979] Spine #0000A Blu-ray Midway through his time in Germany, Bergman returned to Fårö for his second documentary exploration of the remote Swedish island he loved and the socioeconomic realities experienced by those who lived there. Longer, more optimistic, and less ascetic than its predecessor, this film charts a calendar year in the life of the island's 673 inhabitants, many of whom he observes working tirelessly shearing sheep, thatching roofs, and slaughtering livestock, as well as going about various communal rituals. Distilled from twenty-eight hours of material, F årö Document 1979  is a lyrical depiction of life's cyclical nature. 104 minutes Color/Black & White Monaural in Swedish 1:37:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Ingmar Bergman was 61 when he directed Får ö Document 1979 . Other Bergman films in the Collection: #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Crisis (1946) #0000A/Eclipse...

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) The Serpent's Egg [1977] Spine #0000A Blu-ray One rainy night in Weimar Berlin, Jewish American circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine) discovered that his brother Max, his trapeze-act partner, has killed himself. What follows is one of Bergman's darkest and most fearful visions, as the drowned-in-drink Abel and Max's ex-wife, cabaret singer Manuela (Liv Ullmann), feel increasingly unwelcome in a menacing and destitute city, eyed by the police as well as a scientist with diabolical intentions. The director's sole big-budget Hollywood production, for which he created a surreal and atmospheric Berlin on a Munich soundstage, The Serpent's Egg  conjures a Kafkaesque nightmare about the decaying society that gave rise to the horrors of Nazism. 119 minutes Color/Black & White Monaural in English and German 1:66:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Ingmar Bergman was 59 when he directed ...

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) The Touch [1971] Spine #0000A Blu-ray With his first English-language film, a critical and box-office disaster, Ingmar Bergman delivered a compelling portrait of conflicting desires. In The Touch , a chance encounter between seemingly contented housewife Karin (Bibi Andersson) and David (Elliott Gould), an intense American archaeologist scarred by his family's past, leads to the initiation of a torrid and tempestuous affair, one that eventually threatens the stability of Karin's marriage to a respected local surgeon (Max von Sydow). Upon its release, the filmmaker declared this emotionally complex and sensitively performed film to be his first real love story. 115 minutes Black & White/ Color in English and Swedish 1:85:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Ingmar Bergman was 53 when he directed The Touch . Other Bergman films in the Collection: #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Crisis (1946) #0000A/Eclipse Series...

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) Fårö Document [1970] Spine #0000A Blu-ray Ingmar Bergman had discovered the bleak, windswept Fårö while scouting locations for Through a Glass Darkly  in 1960. Nearly a decade later — and after shooting a number of arresting dramas there and making the island his primary residence — the director set out to pay tribute to its inhabitants. In F årö Document , shot on handheld 16 mm by Sven Nykvist, Bergman interviews a variety of locals, in the process laying bare the generational divide between young residents eager to leave the island and older people more deeply rooted in bucolic tradition. The film revealed Bergman to be a sensitive and masterly documentarian. 58 minutes Black & White/Color Monaural in Swedish 1:37:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Ingmar Bergman was 52 when he directed Fårö Document . Other Bergman films in the Collection: #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Crisis (1946) #0000A/Eclipse Series ...

KUROSAWA, Akira (Japan) I Live In Fear [1955] Eclipse Series 7 DVD Both the final film of this period in which Akira Kurosawa would directly wrestle with the demons of the Second World War and his most literal representation of living in an atomic age, the galvanizing  I Live in Fear  presents Toshiro Mifune as an elderly, stubborn businessman so fearful of a nuclear attack that he resolves to move his reluctant family to South America. With this mournful film, the director depicts a society emerging from the shadows but still terrorized by memories of the past and anxieties for the future. 103 minutes Black & White Monaural in Japanese 1:33:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2010 Director/Writer Akira Kurosawa was 45 when he directed I Live in Fear . Other Kurosawa films in the Collection: Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata (1943) Eclipse Series 23: The Most Beautiful (1944) Eclipse Series 23: Sanshiro Sugata, Part Two (1945) Eclipse Series ...

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) The Rite [1969] Spine #0000A Blu-ray Synopsis 1 Ingmar Bergman conceived this experimental work as a response to his controversial tenure at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Focusing on four characters — a trio of actors charged with obscenity (Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Anders Ek), and the judge assigned to try them (Erik Hell) —  The Rite alternates between criminal interrogations and interpersonal confrontations shown in flashback, leading to a final "performance" that makes for one of the most bizarre moments in Bergman's filmography. Staged on a bare sets and shot almost entirely in close-up, The Rite  condenses a decade's worth of cinematic exploration into seventy-five tense, unsettling minutes. Synopsis 2 Bergman conceived this experimental work as a response to his controversial tenure at the Royal Dramatic Theatre. Focusing on four characters — a trio of actors charged with obscenity (Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand...

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) The Passion Of Anna [1969] Spine #0000A Blu-ray This drama shot on Ingmar Bergman's beloved Fårö island describes a mood of fear, isolation, and the longing for connection. Not long after the dissolution of his marriage and a fleeting liaison with a neighbor (Bibi Andersson), the reclusive Andreas (Max von Sydow) begins an ill-fated affair with the mysterious, beguiling Anna (Liv Ullmann), who has recently lost her own husband and son. Bergman's first color film since All These Women , The Passion of Anna  is a sequel of sorts to Shame . It incorporates documentary-style interviews with the actors, blurring the boundaries between fiction and nonfiction, lies and truth, dreams and reality, identity and anonymity. 100 minutes Color/Black & White Monaural in Swedish 1:66:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Ingmar Bergman was 51 when he directed The Passion of Anna . Other Bergman films in the Collection: ...

BERGMAN, Ingmar (Sweden) Hour Of The Wolf [1968] Spine #0000A Blu-ray The strangest and most disturbing of the films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island of F årö, Hour of the Wolf  stars Max von Sydow as a haunted painter living in voluntary exile with his wife (Liv Ullmann). When the couple are invited to a nearby castle for dinner, things start to go wrong with a vengeance, as a coven of sinister aristrocrats hastens the artist's psychological deterioration. This gripping film is charged with a nightmarish power rare in the Bergman canon, and contains dreamlike effects that brilliantly underscore the tale's horrific elements. 88 minutes Black & White Monaural in Swedish 1:37:1 aspect ratio Criterion Release 2018 Director/Writer Ingmar Bergman was 50 when he directed Hour of the Wolf . Other Bergman films in the Collection: #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Crisis (1946) #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: A Ship To India (1947) #0000A/Eclipse Series 1: Port Of Cal...