Art Film Night At Sylvan

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Friday, November 14th, 2014
7:00 PM to 10:30 PM

Double Feature

First Feature:

Persona - 1966  -  83 minutes

"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 Andersson is the garrulous young nurse caring for her in a remote island cottage.  While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential creations.  Acted with astonishing nuance and shot in stark contrast and soft light by the great Sven Nykvist, Persona is a penetrating, dreamlike work of profound psychological depth." - Michael Koresky

Second Feature: 

Bergman Island - 2006  -  85 minutes

"Just four years before his death, legendary filmmaker Ingmar Bergman sat down with Swedish documentarian Marie Nyreröd in his home on Fårö Island to discuss his films, his fears, his regrets, and his ongoing artistic passion. This resulted in the most breathtakingly candid series of interviews that the famously reclusive director ever took part in, later edited into the feature-length film Bergman Island. In-depth, revealing, and packed with choice anecdotes about Bergman’s films, as well as his personal life, Nyreröd’s film is an unforgettable final glimpse of a man who transformed cinema." - Amazon