THE SEVENTH SEAL / THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY Ingmar Bergman Double Feature! July 10, 2011

Sunday, July 10 – 7:30 PM
Double Feature: THE SEVENTH SEAL, 1957, Janus Films, 92 min. Arguably Ingmar Bergman’s most iconic film and the movie that helped create the international arthouse cinema craze of the 1950s. While the Black Plague rages all around, medieval knight Max von Sydow plays a game of chess with Death … but who will win? Often imitated and parodied but never equaled, THE SEVENTH SEAL is an astonishing, protean masterpiece: a film to storm the gates of Heaven with. Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. "Bergman's spiritual quest is at the center of the films he made in the middle of his career. THE SEVENTH SEAL opens that period, in which he asked, again and again, why God seemed absent from the world." - Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times [35mm]
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50th Anniversary! THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY, 1961, Janus Films, 89 min. Winner of the 1962 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and featuring an astonishing lead performance by Harriet Andersson, Ingmar Bergman’s film presents an unflinching vision of a family’s near disintegration. While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, Karin’s father (Gunnar Björnstrand), husband (Max von Sydow) and younger brother (Lars Passgård) are unable to prevent her harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness. Both films in Swedish with English subtitles. [35mm]
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