#Mona Malm

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"Fanny och Alexander" (1984) - Ingmar Bergman

(the long/complete version)

"February Film Favourites" Day 6/28

Ingmar Bergman's undisputed masterpiece. The final theatrical film he ever made, it won four Academy Awards, for a.o. "Best cinematography (Sven Nykvist) and "Best foreign language film".

I love everything about this film and cannot recommend it highly enough.

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Fanny och Alexander, 1982

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2023 Recap

Goal: 35 books

Books read: 50 11 nonfiction 39 fiction

Pages read: 15,896

My 5 star reads (in order by which I read them):

The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden

The Catcher in the Rye (reread) J.D. Salinger

Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer

Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier

White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods

We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor)

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover

Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy

Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong

Best book I read this year:

Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Worst book I read this year:

In the Woods Tana French

The books I thought I was going to love but didn't:

The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls

Idlewild James Frankie Thomas

Biography of X Catherine Lacey

How Music Works David Byrne

Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller

The book I didn't expect to love but did:

Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

The books I haven't stopped thinking about:

The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor

Jawbone Monica Ojeda Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan

How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti

Educated Tara Westover Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich Lament for Julia Susan Taubes

The complete list and my ratings (in order by which I read them):

Ninth House Leigh Bardugo (reread) 4/5 Hell Bent Leigh Bardugo 3.5/5 The Winter of the Witch Katherine Arden 5/5 What Was She Thinking? Zoe Heller 4/5 Spells for Forgetting Adrienne Young 3/5 Elektra Jennifer Saint 3/5 How to Blow Up a Pipeline Andreas Malm 4.5/5 Now Is Not the Time to Panic Kevin Wilson 4.5/5 The Catcher in the Rye J.D. Salinger (reread) 5/5 Treasure Island!!! Sara Levine 4.5/5 The Ruin of All Witches: Life and Death in the New World Malcom Gaskill 4/5 Milk Fed Melissa Broder 4.5/5 Death in Her Hands Ottessa Moshfegh 3.5/5 Bunny Mona Awad 3.5/5 Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma Claire Dederer 5/5 A Crack-Up at the Race Riots Harmony Korine 4/5 Fourth Wing Rebecca Yarros 5/5 Delta of Venus Anais Nin 4.5/5 The Only One Left Riley Sager 4/5 Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us Rachel Aviv 4/5 The Anomaly Herve Le Tellier 5/5 A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas 4/5 At the Edge of the Woods Kathryn Bromwich 4.5/5 How Music Works David Byrne 3.5/5 Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises Rebecca Solnit 3/5 Boy Parts Eliza Clark 4/5 White Wedding Kathleen J. Woods 5/5 Lament for Julia Susan Taubes 4.5/5 In the Woods Tana French 2/5 Biography of X Catherine Lacey 4/5 The Near Witch Victoria Schwab 4/5 Divine Rivals Rebecca Ross 4.5/5 We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival Natalie West (editor) 5/5 Hurricane Season Fernanda Melchor 5/5 Starling House Alix E. Harrow 3/5 Nails and Eyes Kaori Fujino 4.5/5 Jawbone Monica Ojeda 5/5 Small Favors Erin A. Craig. 3/5 Exit West Mohsin Hamid 4/5 Bluebeard's Castle Anna Biller 3.5/5 Iron Flame Rebecca Yarros 4.5/5 Acts of Desperation Megan Nolan 5/5 How Should a Person Be? Sheila Heti 5/5 Educated Tara Westover 5/5 The Glass Castle Jeanette Walls 3.5/5 Idlewild James Frankie Thomas 4/5 The Guest List Lucy Foley 4/5 Ruthless Vows Rebecca Ross 4/5 Sharks, Death, Surfers: an Illustrated Companion Melissa McCarthy 5/5 Minor Feelings Cathy Park Hong 5/5

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Documental sobre Ingmar Bergman. Intervenciones de Woody Allen, Michael Haneke, Martin Scorsese, Ridley Scott, Tomas Alfredson, Francis Ford Coppola, Wes Anderson, Takeshi Kitano, Isabella Rossellini, Zhang Yimou, Ang Lee, Robert De Niro, Claire Denis, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wes Craven, John Landis, Holly Hunter, Thomas Vinterberg, Lars von Trier, Harriet Andersson, Pernilla August, Laura Dern, Daniel Espinosa, Mona Malm y Alexander Payne. Disponible para ver online en 1080p. Subtítulos en español incrustados.

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Jarl Kulle in All These Women (Ingmar Bergman, 1964)

Cast: Jarl Kulle, Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Eva Dahlbeck, Karin Kavli, Gertrud Fridh, Mona Malm, Barbro Hiort af Ornäs, Allan Edwall, Georg Funkquist, Carl Billquist. Screenplay: Erland Josephson, Ingmar Bergman. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist. Production design: P.A. Lundgren. Film editing: Ulla Ryghe.

Roger Ebert called Ingmar Bergman's All These Women "the worst film he has ever made," and I don't think it's because the butt of so many of the jokes in the movie was a critic. It's an arch, highly stylized comedy, supposedly inspired by Federico Fellini's 8 1/2 (1963), though apart from the zings at critics and the gathering together of the various women in an artist's life, there's not much that Bergman's film has in common with Fellini's. Bergman's artist, a cellist named Felix, has just died, and the film opens at his funeral through which a number of his "widows" parade to view the corpse. The funeral is presided over by Cornelius (Jarl Kulle), Felix's supposed biographer, actually a music critic who was trying to persuade Felix to perform one of his compositions: "A Fish's Dream, Abstraction #4." The film flashes back to the days before Felix's death when Cornelius arrived at the cellist's estate and encountered his wife, Adelaide (Eva Dahlbeck); his mistress, called "Bumblebee" (Bibi Andersson); and several other women who had various connections, presumably sexual, to Felix. What follows is much running about, some slapstick, some misfired attempts by Cornelius to bed Bumblebee while trying to gather information about Felix's private life, and much tiresome and unfunny ado set to music cues ranging from Bach to "Yes, We Have No Bananas." All These Women was Bergman's first film in color, but the only prints I have seen are sadly faded or washed-out, with captions that are hard to read. The cinematographer, Sven Nykvist, is a celebrated master, so the color flaws may be that of the aging Eastmancolor negative. Only the fact that the film is a lesser work of the director who gave us The Seventh Seal (1957), Persona (1966), and Fanny and Alexander (1982) really argues for restoring it, however.

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Fanny and Alexander (1982) | dir. Ingmar Bergman

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Female relationships in "Fanny och Alexander: Första akten - Familjen Ekdahl firar jul":

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Ryttare i Blått (1959) [PdH#03] [SE]

Jodå. SVT fortsätter bjuda på Hillman-thrillers, och jag fortsätter se dem.

¡Oi! Spoilers, stavfel och alternativa fakta kan förekomma rakt föröver!

John Hillman reser till England för att bistå Scotland Yard med sina kunskaper (bisarrt vad de skulle behöva en svensk privatdetektiv till) och hans fru Kajsa reser till Strömsholm för en kurs med Blå Stjärnan (en frivillig försvarsorganisation med specialisering på djur). Så det blir upp till Freddie och att hålla ställningarna på kontoret. Dvs, han skall svara i telefonen och säga nej till alla uppdrag, och ungefär i den ordningen. Det går sådär. När en kvinna ringer in om ett mord där liket försvann beger han sig åstad. Till Strömsholm. Där en mystisk ryttare hemsöker ängarna...

Den här filmen har ett stort problem: Freddy Sjöström (Nils Hallberg). Han tar för stor plats och bidrar med på tok för lite. Han funkade lite som comic relief i "Damen i Svart" där han inte är lika framträdande. Här står det klart att han är puckad, inkompetent och inte rolig för fem öre. Att John Hillman nästan inte förekommer i filmen, funkar förvånansvärt bra. Kajsa Hillman (Annalisa Ericson) klarar sig bra på egen hand och bär upp filmen förvånansvärt bra. Synd att man på manusstadiet inte vågade lita på det och gav Freddie en sådan framträdande roll. Som deckarmysterium är det här en spretig och tämligen oinspirerad historia. Mycket av handlingen spolieras av det faktum att Git Malmström (Gio Petré) så uppenbart är inblandad på något vis, det blir liksom lite för uppenbart när hon står och hånler i skuggorna i tid och otid. Och om det är en brist i regin eller ett medvetet val är svårt att säga. Hennes djupa agg mot Kerstin Renman (Mona Malm) är lite svår att förstå den med... Speciellt sedan hon uppenbart valt någon annan än Gits span Henrik. Men stalkers arbetar sällan efter oss dödligas logik.

Vi får se Björn "Dynamit-Harry" Gustavsson glimta förbi i en liten roll igen, denna gång polisen Boman. Ser i rollistan dessutom att Sven Wollter spelar pressfotograf. Kul.

Länkar:

Filmen @ Vodeville.

Filmen @ SVT Play. 🆓 (Kan ses till 26.12.2019).

Filmen @ IMDb.

Svenska Blå Stjärnan @ Wikipedia.

Damen i Svart @ White Water Paper.

Mannekäng i Rött @ White Water Paper.

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Tomtemaskinen 1993 

“Men gå ut då! / But go outside then!”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u83OIqXVME

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Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) | Ingmar Bergman | 1982

The First Act: The Ekdahl Family Celebrates Christmas

Mona Malm, Pernilla August

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"För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor" (1964) - Ingmar Bergman

Films I've watched in 2023 (115/119)

A masterpiece of a comedy!

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Re-watched this again today, and it still makes me laugh so hard every time. One of the funniest films I've ever seen!

För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor [All These Women] (1964)

Dir. Ingmar Bergman

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Just watched this, and I haven't laughed so much since... well, since I first watched "Sommarnattens leende" (I. Bergman, 1955) earlier this year, I suppose.

Absolutely loved it.

It's also visually stunning! 😍

Films Watched in 2018:

100.  För att inte tala om alla dessa kvinnor/All These Women (1964) - Dir. Ingmar Bergman

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"Fanny och Alexander" + textposts