Tells the story of Ingmar Bergman's father and mother from their first meeting one spring day in 1909 until Ingmar was about to be born, in 1918. The basic facts of the story are all true. Henrik and Anna fall in love and, despite her domineering mother's opposition, eventurally marry.

Best Intentions

BERGMAN, Ingmar

Literature & Fiction

Harvill Press

Ingmar Bergman, creator of such films as Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage and Fanny and Alexander turns his perceptive filmmaker's eye on himself for a revealing portrait of his life and obsessions. 16 pages of photos.

The Magic Lantern

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Penguin??Books

The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography

Bearing all the narrative trademarks of a Bergman film, his autobiography unfolds not in strict chronology, but as a series of flashbacks to his childhood of bitter unhappiness: "our family", he writes "were men and women with a catastrophic heritage of excessive demands, bad conscience, and guilt". Bergman also tells of the experiences of fear and occasional idyllic happiness that caused his adult unhappiness and self hatred.

“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 and more than a few mistresses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era’s great geniuses. “[Bergman] has found a way to show the soul’s landscape . . . . Many gripping revelations.”—New York Times Book Review “Joan Tate’s translation of this book has delicacy and true pitch . . . The Magic Lantern is as personal and penetrating as a Bergman film, wry, shadowy, austere.”—New Republic “[Bergman] keeps returning to his past, reassessing it, distilling its meaning, offering it to his audiences in dazzling new shapes.”—New York Times “What Bergman does relate, particularly his tangled relationships with his parents, is not only illuminating but quite moving. No ‘tell-all’ book this one, but revealing in ways that much longer and allegedly ‘franker’ books are not.”—Library Journal

University of Chicago Press

VIKING

Four short stories by the great artsist and film maker.

Four Stories by Ingmar Bergman

Short Stories & Anthologies

DOUBLEDAY

Face to Face: a Film

1976 Pantheon Books hardcover, Ingmar Bergman (The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography). The novel of the Swedish film that tells the story of a psychiatrist who is suffering from a mental illness.

FACE TO FACE.

PANTHEON. NY 1976

Text: English, Swedish (translation)

Scenes from a Marriage

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Pantheon Books

Autumn Sonata: A film

Bergman probes the potential for violence that enables even the most well-adjusted human being to snap in his drama about the brutal murder of a prostitute and a policeman's search for motives

From the life of the marionettes

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Best Intentions

The Magic Lantern

The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography

The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography

The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography

Four Stories by Ingmar Bergman

FACE TO FACE.

Scenes from a Marriage

Autumn Sonata: A film

From the life of the marionettes