IFC Center’s “Waverly Midnights” is back! Screening Fridays and Saturdays at midnights, October 8-December 11. In celebration of the opening of the new sexy, car-centric TITANE, we’re hitting the pavement with some racy and turbocharged cult classics. Kicking off October 8-9 with CRASH, no doubt an inspiration to TITANE, the series includes genre classics such as […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/waverly-midnights-auto-erotic/IFC Center’s “Late-Night Favorites” program also continues, bringing New Yorkers midnight screenings of such cult classics as David Lynch’s MULHOLLAND DR. (2001), Nobuhiko Obayashi’s HOUSE (1977), two classics from Alejandro Jodorowsky: EL TOPO (1970) and, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973). Details below. Be sure to see our other Autumn 2021 series of Midnight films, Auto/Erotic and our […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/series/late-night-favorites-autumn-2021/This existential wail of a drama from Ingmar Bergman concerns two sisters, Karin (Ingrid Thulin) and Maria (Liv Ullmann), keeping vigil for a third, Agnes (Harriet Andersson), who is dying of cancer and can find solace only in the arms of a beatific servant (Kari Sylwan). An intensely felt film that is one of Bergman’s […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/cries-and-whispers/From Mia Hansen-Løve’s introduction to a screening of THE TOUCH at the Telluride Film Festival: “When Julie Huntsinger proposed that I introduce a film of Bergman’s during the festival I didn’t hesitate for a minute. I think all filmmakers have a special bond to a few films which obsess them almost like in a love […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-touch/The fifth drama that Bergman shot on his beloved Fa°ro¨ describes a mood of fear and spiritual guilt. Not long after the dissolution of his marriage, and a fleeting liaison with a neighbor (Bibi Andersson), the reclusive Andreas (Max von Sydow) begins an ultimately disastrous affair with the mysterious, beguiling Anna (Liv Ullmann), who has […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-passion-of-anna/While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family’s already fragile ties are tested when daughter Karin (Harriet Andersson) discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, the father (Gunnar Björnstrand), along with Karin’s husband (Max von Sydow) and her younger brother […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/through-a-glass-darkly/The strangest and most disturbing of the films Bergman shot on the island of Fa°ro¨, HOUR OF THE WOLF stars Max von Sydow as a haunted painter living in voluntary exile with his wife (Liv Ullmann). When the couple are invited to a nearby castle for dinner, things start to go wrong with a vengeance, as a […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/the-hour-of-the-wolf/SHAME was Bergman’s scathing response to the escalation of the conflict in Vietnam. Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann star as musicians living in quiet retreat on a remote island farm, where the civil war that drove them from the city soon catches up with them. Amid the chaos and confusion of the military struggle, vividly […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/shame/By the midsixties, Ingmar Bergman had already conjured many of the cinema’s most unforgettable images. But with the radical PERSONA, this supreme artist attained new levels of visual poetry. In the first of a series of legendary performances for Bergman, Liv Ullmann plays a stage actor who has inexplicably gone mute; an equally mesmerizing Bibi […]
https://www.ifccenter.com/films/persona/Due to the unexpected closure of the theater on March 14, in order to slow the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus, the Winter 2020 season of Late-Night Favorites ended with the screenings on March 13. The full season as originally announced is below. IFC Center’s “Late-Night Favorites” program also continues, bringing New Yorkers midnight screenings of […]
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