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Fanny och Alexander, 1982

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"Ronja Rövardotter" (1984) - Tage Danielsson

(Eng. title: "Ronja the Robber's Daughter")

Films I've watched in 2024 (10/?)

Very simply one of the greatest family films ever made. Astrid Lindgren's story has been adapted with immense love and care.

The cast is stellar, the costumes have wonderful attention to historical detail, and the locations showcase the Swedish nature beautifully.

(Also, no matter how old I get I will always find the wild harpies terrifying!)

Another GIF-set I madefor this film last year.

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The Sacrifice (Offret) (1986) Andrei Tarkovsky

December 23rd 2024

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Fanny and Alexander / Fanny och Alexander (1983, Ingmar Bergman)

TV version

12/21-27/23

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Fanny and Alexander (1984)

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An updated ‘How it started, how it’s going’ with Alexander Skarsgård

as Kalle Nubb in ‘Åke Och Hans Värld’ (1984) in his first film directed by Allan Edwall

as Roland Penrose in ‘Lee’ which will be released this month (Finally!!) directed by Ellen Kuras

📸 my screen cap/ edit and promo still from Kimberley French

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Brigitta Petterson in The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman, 1960)

Cast: Max von Sydow, Brigitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Brigitta Petterson, Axel Düberg, Tor Isedal, Allan Edwall, Ove Porath, Axel Slangus, Gudrun Brost, Oscar Ljung. Screenplay: Ulla Isaksson. Cinematography: Sven Nykvist. Production design: P.A. Lundgren. Film editing: Oscar Rosander. Music: Erik Nordgren. 

The Virgin Spring was probably the first Bergman film I ever saw, and it made a powerful impression that stuck with me. I think that's one reason why I have mixed feelings about it today. I remembered it as a simple tale based on a 13th-century Swedish ballad, in which a young girl on her way to church is raped and murdered, but from the ground where the crime took place, a spring of fresh water erupts miraculously. But watching it today I see a more complex story, full of moral ambiguities. The girl, Karin (Birgitta Pettersson), is not such a paragon as I remembered: She is spoiled and prideful, trying to sleep late and avoid the task of taking the candles to the church. She may not even be as innocent as she is thought to be: The servant, Ingeri (Gunnel Lindblom), who accompanies her says the reason she wants to sleep late is that she was out the previous night flirting with a boy. Karin's mother, Märeta (Birgitta Valberg), is on the one hand a religious fanatic given to self-torture, and on the other an indulgent parent unwilling to discipline her daughter. Karin's father, Töre (Max von Sydow), is divided between the Christian faith he has adopted and a furious desire to wreak revenge on the rapist-murderers. After he has killed the two men and the boy who accompanied them, he expresses remorse but also blames God for his daughter's fate. He vows to build a church on the site, and the spring gushes forth, but as a miracle it seems like a somewhat anticlimactic response to the horror that has gone before. (It's not like the site, where running water is copious, even needs another spring.) Bergman for once is working from a screenplay he didn't write: It's by Ulla Isaksson, which may be why the film is poised so ambiguously between Christian affirmation and Bergman's usual bleak alienation. It is, however, one of Bergman's most beautifully accomplished films, joining him with the cinematographer Sven Nykvist, with whom he had worked only once before (seven years earlier on Sawdust and Tinsel), and with whom he would form one of the great working partnerships in film history. In its evocation of medieval narrative and meticulous re-creation of a milieu (the production designer is P.A. Lundgren), it's superb. But as a film from one of the great modern directors it seems oddly anachronistic and insincere.

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Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra är hotad – Amason leder stödgala

Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra är en privatteater som grundades av skådespelaren Allan Edwall 1986. När han gick bort 1997 tog poeten Kristina Lugn över stafettpinnen och sedan 2011 drivs teatern av dottern Martina Montelius. Nu står Teater Brunnsgatan Fyra inför stora utmaningar, enligt ett pressmeddelande. Det saknas pengar för att genomföra omfattande renoveringsarbeten. Samtidigt har hyran nästan…

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It’s Thomas name day today❤️ I often called him both Allan and Kent-Allan. My mother’s father’s brother is named Allan, or maybe it came from actor Allan Edwall, or maybe it came from poet Edgar Allan Poe. The meaning of the name Allan is handsome/cheerful/little rock - fits Thomas so well🩷

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"Ronja Rövardotter" (1984) - Tage Danielsson

"February Film Favourites" Day 18/28

Very simply one of the greatest family films ever made. Astrid Lindgren's story has been adapted with immense love and care.

The cast is stellar, the costumes have wonderful attention to historical detail, and the locations showcase the Swedish nature beautifully

Also, no matter how old I get I will always find the wild harpies terrifying!

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Winter Light (Nattvardsgästerna) (1963) Ingmar Bergman

August 10th 2024

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Analysis of 'The Sacrifice'

The Sacrifice (Offret) is a 1986 Swedish film written and directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. It stars Erland Josephson, with Susan Fleetwood, Allan Edwall, Sven Wollter, and Valérie Mairesse. Many of the crew had worked in Ingmar Bergman films. The Sacrifice was Tarkovsky’s last film, and his third film as an expatriate from the Soviet Union, after Nostalghia and the documentary, Voyage in Time. He…