Edition Details:
• Laterna Magica (15:29)
• Ingmar Bergman at 60 (56:55)
• Sven Nykist (14:57)
• Women and Bergman (28:32)
• 17 Short Stories (1:10:10)
• ... But Film is My Mistress (1:08:50)

Blu-ray Release Date: November 20th, 2018

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This is a review of the supplements Blu-ray in Criterion's Ingmar Bergman’s Cinema 100th Anniversary 30 Blu-ray Boxset. (reviewed as a work-in-progress HERE.) This additional extras disc is single layered and starts with the 1/4 hour Laterna Magica - a short montage of images from Ingmar Bergman's cinema created by the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin in 2011. It was originally presented as a video installation projected onto four separate screens. Ingmar Bergman at 60 runs shy of an hour and is hosted by Melvyn Bragg and produced in 1978 for British television's The South Bank Show. It was filmed with Ingmar Bergman on the occasion of the director's sixtieth birthday, while he was living in Munich. During this revealing and playful interview, Bergman revisits Summer Interlude, Sawdust and Tinsel, The Seventh Seal, Cries and Whispers, and Wild Strawberries. There is a 15-minute audio interview with Sven Nykist and it is is illustrated with clips from several of the films they made together. It was originally recorded on February 7th, 1981, during a Harold Lloyd Master Seminar at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Women and Bergman runs almost 1/2 hour and is a roundtable conversation featuring host Nils Petter Sundgren and actors Bibi Andersson, Pernilla August, Elfin Klinga, and Gunnel Lindblom was recorded for television in 2007 at the Stockholm International Film Festival. Most interesting is 17 Short Stories. In 2017, Swedish journalist and filmmaker Marie Nyrerod created this series of topical short films using outtakes from footage she had recorded with director Ingmar Bergman for her 2006 feature documentary Bergman Island. It is fascinating and runs 1-hour 10-minutes. Lastly, on this supplemental Blu-ray is ... But Film is My Mistress - a feature-length documentary, directed by Stig Bjorkman in 2010, incorporates video and audio interviews with director Ingmar Bergman, actor Liv Ullmann, and filmmakers Woody Allen, Olivier Assayas, Bernardo Bertolucci, Arnaud Desplechin, John Sayles, Martin Scorsese, and Lars Von Trier, along with behind-the-scenes footage from several of Bergman's films. It is excellent.

This Blu-ray disc has optional English subtitles for all extras and is Region FREE. It's a wonderful addition to the set which also includes a lavishly illustrated 248-page book.

NOTE: The Making of Fanny and Alexander Blu-ray has additional supplements - stay tuned for our reviews HERE.