Month: June 2020

Originally posted on Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival:
‘You know so much, and you don’t know anything’ Ingmar Bergman’s reputation for making bleak and forbidding films is challenged by his second masterpiece of a pivotal year. Enlisting the talents of veteran director Victor Sjostrom to play the lead role, Bergman crafted an eloquent and moving drama…

Originally posted on Chicago FEEDBACK Film Festival:
‘I thought I had something so simple to say’ Few films have more eloquently conveyed the struggles of modern life than Federico Fellini’s inspired confessional. An intensely personal account of the director’s own turmoil, the film’s creative brilliance and joyful exuberance shines through in a peerless work of…