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The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
Ingmar Bergman
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Paperback. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: AS. Dimension: 229 x 156. Weight in Grams: 476.
When a film is not a document, it is a dream...At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood." Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, "The Magic Lantern". More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman's vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood's golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives ... Read more
When a film is not a document, it is a dream...At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood." Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, "The Magic Lantern". More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman's vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood's golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that includes five wives ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Language
English
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
Number of Pages
314
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226043821
SKU
V9780226043821
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About Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman is a Swedish filmmaker who has written and directed over fifty films. He is the recipient of three Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, for The Virgin Spring, Through a Glass Darkly, and Fanny and Alexander. Joan Tate (1922 - 2000) was a prolific translator of Swedish works into English.
Reviews for The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
"Bergman's minute recall is essentially, astonishingly, visual. Description after description stamp out scenes from his films. The man, his memory, his work are one.... It is wonderfully liberating to be made privy to the tangible relish in his craft.... The Magic Lantern is no conventional autobiography, more a scalding stream of consciousness from the pen of a licentious puritan." - ... Read more