Directed by Marie Nyreröd

Someone once claimed that the New York Film Critics Circle was founded to give Ingmar Bergman a prize every year. Indeed, Bergman’s extraordinary output (more than 50 features since 1946) and his outsized influence, makes him one of the leading auteurs of the 20th century. This visit with him, at home on the Swedish island of Fårö, elicits his final, brilliant thinking on the masterpieces PERSONA and CRIES AND WHISPERS, and the role played in his life and art by fear, love, death, music, humiliation and, in his own words, “the intensely erotic nature of film and theater.”

Sweden • 2006 • 85 minutes • In Swedish with English Subtitles • Filmsource

“Extraordinarily revealing! Intimate, compelling.”
– Stephen Holden, The New York Times

“A rare chance to visit the great Ingmar Bergman. Cinema’s onetime poet laureate of psychic angst is so open about his inner life that Nyrerod’s documentary delivers a surprising number of insights.” – New York Magazine

“One of the titans of cinema! The peerless director is nothing if not a Scandinavian Marcel Proust. Nyrerod’s unearthing of archival footage… adds to the pure pleasure of reverie. One need not be a Bergman acolyte to take deep delight in this doc.” – Melissa Anderson, Time Out NY

“Film Forum has a Christmas gift for movie lovers: BERGMAN ISLAND, an amazing portrait!”
- V.A. Musetto, The New York Post

“A brilliant, zany little companion piece to BERGMAN ISLAND! Compacts more ideas about movies in its 16 minutes than most films express in 2 hours.” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times

Directed by Guy Maddin

“Ravishing! An utterly charming memoir.”
– Time Out NY

“Shrewd and tender. (A) grave, hilarious psychodrama.”
– J. Hoberman, Village Voice

“A brief but extravagant biographical portrait. Playing her mother, (she creates) a poignant meditation on their meteoric, collaboration and romance. In 17 touchingly loopy minutes, Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini say more about the filmmaker and his art than hours of DVD-extra talking heads.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Intoxicating Beauty! An exquisite and playful pastiche of cinema’s lost golden age, rendered with the Winnipeg wizard’s wonderful cabinet of archaic effects. Thanks to Maddin’s visual humor, the old chestnut of Art versus Entertainment becomes a freshly engaging philosophical tussle.”
– Ed Halter, Village Voice

Filmmaking great Roberto Rossellini, is the subject of MY DAD IS 100 YEARS OLD, starring and written by his daughter Isabella Rossellini, who takes on the roles of Chaplin, Hitchcock, Selznick, Fellini and her own mother, Ingrid Bergman.

Canada • 2005 • 16 minutes
Zeitgeist Films