Movies, Mom & Me

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    The Count of the Old Town
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    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Valdemar Dalquist	Greven	Julia Cæsar	Klara	Sigurd Wallén	Gurkan	Tollie Zellman	Amalia
    Edvin Adolphson	Åke	Ingrid Bergman	Elsa	Eric Abrahamsson	Borstis	Weyler Hildebrand	Göransson

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film. The write-up is pretty spare, just to let you know.
      Release Date: 1935
      Directed by Edvin Adolphson & Sigurd Wallén.
  
  
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    Walpurgis Night
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    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Lars Hanson	Johan Borg	Karin Kavli	Clary Borg	Victor Sjöström	Fredrik Bergström	Ingrid Bergman	Lena Bergström
    Erik 'Bullen' Berglund	Gustav Palm	Sture Lagerwall	Svensson	Marie-Louise Sorbon	Mrs. Svensson	Georg Rydeberg	Frank Roger
    Georg Blickingberg	Landberg	Richard Lund	Doctor Smith	Linnéa Hillberg	Nurse	Stig Järrel	Grane

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
      Release Date: 1935
      Directed by Gustaf Edgren.
  
  
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    Intermezzo
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    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Gösta Ekman	Professor Holger Brandt	Inga Tidblad	Margit Brandt	Ingrid Bergman	Anita Hoffman	Erik Berglund	Impresario Charles Möller
    Hugo Björne	Thomas Stenborg	Anders Henrikson	Swedish Sailor	Hasse Ekman	Åke Brandt	Britt Hagman	Ann-Marie Brandt

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
      Release Date: 1936
      Directed by Gustaf Molander.
  
  
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    Dollar
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    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Ingrid Bergman	Julia Balzar	Georg Rydeberg	Kurt Balzar	Tutta Rolf	Sussi Brenner	Kotti Chaveas	Louis Brenner
    Birgit Tengroth	Katja von Battwyhl	Håkan Westergren	Ludvig von Battwyhl	Edvin Adolphson	Dr. Jonson	Elsa Burnett	Mary Jonson
    Margareta Bergfeldt	Hotel Lobby Woman	Olle Björklund	Hotel Young Man	Millan Bolander	Karin	Gösta Cederlund	Royal Yacht Club Man

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
      Release Date: 1938
      Directed by Gustaf Molander.
  
  
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    A Woman's Face - 1938
    Commentary:  Under construction.
      This movie is the main reason I added this movie to my collection (although I'm curious about Bergman's early Swedish films, as well). I'm excited about watching this version back-to-back with Joan Crawford's version of this story and seeing how they compare and contrast with one another.
      

    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Ingrid Bergman	Anna Holm/Anna Paulsson	Tore Svennberg	Magnus Barring	Anders Henrikson	Dr. Wegert	Georg Rydeberg	Torsten Barring
    Gunnar Sjöberg	Harald Berg	Hilda Borgström	Emma	Karin Kavli	Mrs. Wegert	Erik 'Bullen' Berglund	Nyman
    Sigurd Wallén	Miller	Gösta Cederlund	The Count	Magnus Kesster	Handsome Herman	Göran Bernhard	Lars-Erik Barring

    
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
      Release Date: 1938
      Directed by Gustaf Molander.
  
  
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    June Night
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    Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
    Ingrid Bergman	Kerstin Nordbäck/Sara Nordanå	Marianne Löfgren	Åsa	Lill-Tollie Zellman	Jane Jacobs	Marianne Aminoff	Nickan Dahlin
    Olof Widgren	Stefan von Bremen	Gunnar Sjöberg	Nils Asklund	Gabriel Alw	Professor Tillberg	Olof Winnerstrand	Count
    Sigurd Wallén	Johansson-Eldh/Röken	Hasse Ekman	Willie Wilson	Maritta Marke	Miss Vanja	Gudrun Brost	Mrs. Nilsson

    
      As well, if you care to watch this film, here is the entire film presented by The Internet Archive "for your viewing pleasure" [What video introduction does that phrase come from? Anybody? I know I heard it hundreds of times, in a commercial message immediately preceding a program, maybe? Or, was it uttered by a 60's Master of Ceremonies presenter on one of those interminable Ed-Sullivan-type shows? I just don't remember its context.]
      Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
      Release Date: 1940
      Directed by Per Lindberg.
  
    Wikipedia doesn't have a write-up of this film series. I've included the Wikipedia links for the individual movies in their write-ups, above. As well, here is the Criterion presentation of this film set which includes mini-descriptions of each film. For a longer description of the individual films in this set, try this article by ioncinema, in which Nicolas Bell presents longer, more ruminative reviews of each film.

Labels: Criterion7, ingrid-bergman

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    Roger Ebert christened this movie as one of his Great Movies.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Cary Grant	T. R. Devlin	Ingrid Bergman	Alicia Huberman	Claude Rains	Alexander Sebastian	Leopoldine Konstantin	Madame Anna Sebastian
  Louis Calhern	Cpt. Paul Prescott	Reinhold Schünzel	Dr. Anderson	Moroni Olsen	Walter Beardsley	Ivan Triesault	Eric Mathis
  Alexis Minotis	Joseph, butler	Wally Brown	Mr. Hopkins	Sir Charles Mendl	Commodore	Ricardo Costa	Dr. Julio Barbosa
  Eberhard Krumschmidt	Emil Hupka	Fay Baker	Ethel	Bea Benaderet	File Clerk	Friedrich von Ledebur	Knerr

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1946
    Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Labels: §5, alfred-hitchcock, cary-grant, claude-rains, Criterion4, film-noir2, ingrid-bergman, melodramaB, spy, thriller3

# posted by gail @ 20:29    0 comments    email......this post

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  Commentary:  Of course I was bound to own this movie! I am, after all a self-respecting movie maven-of-sorts. And, of course, it is this version I chose to own. Ingrid Bergman; Angela Lansbury; Charles Boyer; Joseph Cotten. Are you kidding? Is there any other version?!?
    This movie is not only a pure delight of a thriller, for me, I love the way it's done. The planning of the contrasts between outside and inside, light and dark, expansive and claustrophobic, are, yes, thrilling for me to watch. Angela Lansbury is a delicious tart. Ingrid Bergman is a surprisingly unshrinking violet. Charles Boyer plays against type so well, it's hard to remember his performances as a romantic male lead.
    The main reason I thought to buy it recently is because of the current craze for using the word "gaslight" and its derivatives, especially in news and commentary. When I hear these young ones using it, I chuckle internally. I'm sure a majority of these earnest politicos have no idea of the term's derivation. In fact, when I watch this movie, I often think of my niece, who shares my love of movies (and is an actor) and I partly bought the movie so I would have it the next time she visits because, you know, she's of the generation of people who is tossing this term around and I have a sneaking suspicion she doesn't know where it comes from.
    To this day, an utter gem of a movie. And, yes, the site to which I linked the title of this post gives a review of both the 1940 and 1944 movies. Mine is the 1944 version with Ingrid Bergman, although I've wished to see the 1940 one, just out of curiosity.
    By the way, I've linked Bergman's name to an article featuring interviews of three people done for Roger Ebert's site in 2015.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Charles Boyer	Gregory Anton/Sergis Bauer	Ingrid Bergman	Paula Alquist Anton	Joseph Cotton	Brian Cameron	Dame May Whitty	Bessie Thwaites
  Angela Lansbury	Nancy Oliver	Barbara Everest	Elizabeth Tompkins	Emil Rameau	Maestro Guardi	Edmund Breon	General Huddleston
  Halliwell Hobbes	Mr. Mufflin	Heather Thatcher	Lady Mildred Dalroy	Lawrence Grossmith	Lord Freddy Dalroy	Jakob Gimpel	Pianist

  
    As well, just in case, here's the Wikipedia write up to this particular film.
    Release Date: 1944
    Directed by George Cukor.

Labels: angela-lansbury, drama3, film-noir1, ingrid-bergman, melodramaA, mystery1, period1, suspense1, thriller1

# posted by gail @ 17:35    0 comments    email......this post

• Who's watched:  M & G (finally)
• Mentions:  None
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  Commentary:  The truth is, if this movie hadn't come bundled with four others we wanted, we wouldn't own it. I know, stating this is probably blasphemy. I had never seen the movie all the way through until maybe a month ago. Although, when I read the name of the movie to my mother off the cable schedule, she expresses interest in it and often watches it, it's not one either of us yearns toward and, often as not, when it's on the cable schedule, in this house, Animal Planet trumps it.
    When we viewed this film the last (aforementioned) time, I remember Sidney Pollack, who introduced it as one of TCM's Essentials, slipped into a blur of words rhapsodizing Ingrid Bergman and her performance in this movie, nodding, as well, to his life long crush on Ms. Bergman. Anyway, from what he said I thought, "Oh, okay, well I'll watch the whooole thiiing and, if what he says about Ingrid Bergman's performance is true, I should really enjoy this. At the end of the movie I was thinking, well, I think men go crazy when they see Bergman on the screen and think her a better actor than she was. She was very good, obviously stellar, but not transcendental, like, say Streep or Kingsley.
    I'll probably be lynched by the Klassic Movie Klan before morning.
  Update 2/6/18:  Since my mother's death almost a decade ago, I continued my contentious relationship with this movie. I've checked it out of the library (thank goodness I donated my copy to it) at least once every two years and struggled through it yet again. I enjoy Claude Rains in this movie. I've come to enjoy the machinations of the plight of people stuck in Casablanca. But, I'm sorry, the love story does absolutely nothing for me. Sometimes, immediately after watching it, I think the movie would have been a whole lot better, at least for my viewing, if the love story had been dumped. I'm hoping, at this point, that I don't feel I have to watch it again.
    

  Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role	Actor	Role
  Humphrey Bogart	Rick Blaine	Ingrid Bergman	Ilsa Lund	Paul Henreid	Victor Laszlo	Claude Rains	Capt. Louis Renault
  Conrad Veidt	Mjr. Heinrich Strasser	Sydney Greenstreet	Signor Ferrari	Peter Lorre	Signor Ugarte	Dooley Wilson	Sam

  
    Here's a link to the Wikipedia write-up of the film.
    Release Date: 1942
    Directed by Michael Curtiz.

Labels: claude-rains, dramaB, ingrid-bergman, mystery2

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