Liv Ullmann celebrated her 80th birthday two months ago and a few lines are not enough to describe a film icon such as her. Ingmar Bergman defined her “my Stradivarius”, and he made her into his muse after seeing her on stage in Henrik Ibsen’s “Doll’s House”. The partnership between Ingmar and Liv, one of
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Bruno Ganz’s “Homecoming”
The news is only a few days old, Bruno Ganz, one of the best-known names of German cinema, appreciated by the critics and loved by the public, has passed away. Born in Zurich in 1941 to a Swiss father and Italian mother, he moved to Germany in his early twenties where he began a theatrical
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Silence runs down the line
A phone ringing in the dead of night. A man who isn’t answering. A phone which continues to ring. It might seem like the opening of a horror film classic. But it isn’t. It is the start of “Problem”, a short narrative written by Harold Pinter in 1976 in which the evocative power of a
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Harold Pinter’s turtles
A great director, two award-winning actors and an impeccable screenplay (as well as a poster with a wonderful image by Andy Warhol): these are the ingredients of “Turtle Diary” a pleasant, well-made and little-known film written by Harold Pinter and based on the novel by American author Russell Hoban. The film, directed by John Irvin
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