7 January 2012 Screenings

  • Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman, 1957) - CALGARY CINEMATHEQUE MOVIE POSTER
    Jan 07 Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries aka Smultronstället (1957)
    An archetypal Ingmar Bergman film, and one of his best.Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader, 2007

    One of Bergman's warmest, and therefore finest films, this concerns an elderly academic - grouchy, introverted, dried up emotionally - who makes a journey to collect a university award, and en route relives his past by means of dreams, imagination, and encounters with others. … It's filled with richly observed …

    w/ 'Film School' lecture & discussion