"Director: Ingmar Bergman"

• The Serpent's Egg | Blu Ray | (03/12/2018) from £16.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  HOW DO YOU MEASURE YOUR OWN SANITY IN A WORLD GONE MAD? In 1977, legendary Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal, Persona) teamed up with the equally legendary Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis (La strada, Danger: Diabolik) for what would be the director s one and only Hollywood feature. Berlin, 1923. Out-of-work circus performer Abel Rosenberg (David Carradine, Bound in Glory, Kill Bill) is living in poverty. When his brother commits suicide, he moves into the apartment of his cabaret singer sister-in-law (Liv Ullmann, The Emigrants, Scenes from a Marriage), but the pair soon attract the attentions of both the police and a professor with a terrifying area of research when they start to make enquiries about his mysterious death. Features: One of Bergman s darkest and most unlikely films, The Serpent s Egg is a hypnotic, Kafkaesque tale of paranoia in a poisoned city. High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation Original English mono audio (uncompressed LPCM) Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Audio Commentary by actor David Carradine Bergman s Egg a newly filmed appreciation by critic and author Barry Forshaw Away From Home, archival featurette including interviews with David Carradine and Liv Ullman German Expressionism, archival interview with Author Marc Gervais Stills gallery Theatrical trailer Reversible sleeve featuring two artwork choices FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by author Geoffrey Macnab

• Cries And Whispers | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £17.09   |  Saving you £-4.10 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The relationship between three sisters is masterfully explored by Bergman in Cries and Whispers. In rural Sweden around the turn of the century three sisters reside in a vast manor house with their housekeeper. Agnes lives out the last days of her life in pain hoping for companionship and affection. Surrounded by her sisters Agnes takes comfort in the fact that her remaining time can be spent with those close to her. However dissatisfaction in their day-to-day lives and the estrangement that they feel from one another causes the sisters to become increasingly self-absorbed. Special Features: An extraordinarily rich visual experience Cries and Whispers is that rarest of things - a true masterpiece Star and director filmographies Scene selection Philip Strick film notes Extract from Bergman’s book Images - My Life in Film The Bergman collection trailer Region 0

• Waiting Women | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (100.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'Waiting Women' is an episodic work composed of three segments thr third of which represents Bergman's first foray into comedy later honed in the erotic farce 'A Lesson In Love'. Three women (all sisters-in-law) talk about their marital problems while waiting for their husbands at a summer cottage. The first story concerns Rakel (Anita Bjrk) and an adulterous episode that changed her marriage forever. In the next intensely visual segment featuring only limited dialogue Marta (M

• Persona | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1966, Persona is among Ingmar Bergman's greatest, most vital movies, made during a difficult period in his life (Bergman's life is one short on easy times), having been hospitalised following a viral infection. It was while laid up that he conceived the notion of Persona, in which a famous actress, Elisabet (Liv Ullmann) suddenly lapses into a muteness from which, though mentally and physically healthy, she refuses to emerge. She is attended to by a young, naive nurse, Alma (Bibi Andersson) who develops an obsession, bordering on infatuation with her silent charge. She finds herself jabbering all of her innermost secrets to her and, little by little, through dream sequences, repeated dialogue and trick photography, it's as if the consciousnesses of the two women have actually merged. With its opening sequence of cryptic projected reel images (allusions to Bergman's previous work), jarringly atonal soundtrack and devices such as the audible chatter of camera crew, Persona contains an unusual share of avant-garde trimmings, which haven't necessarily stood the test of time. However, the relationship between Alma and Elisabet dominates the movie. Some confounded critics wondered if theirs was a lesbian relationship. Actually, Persona is an occasionally cryptic but overwhelmingly powerful meditation on the parasitic interaction between Art and Life, the way the former feeds off the latter (Alma is distraught to discover a letter at one point which suggests Elisabet has been coolly observing her, as if for material). However, as an early scene featuring TV footage of a Vietnamese Buddhist monk torching himself as a protest against the war, it's also about the helpless incapacity of art to "say" anything in the face of grim reality. A small film budget-wise, but a colossal event in world cinema. --David Stubbs

• Classic Bergman - 5 Disc Set | Blu Ray | (07/06/2012) from £39.95   |  Saving you £31.04 (77.70%)   |  RRP £70.99

  Legendary auteur Ingmar Bergman emerged in the late '40s as an art-house icon and remained one for more than four decades. This set includes four early masterpieces available on Blu-ray for the very first time. It Rains On Our Love (1946)A Ship Bound For India (1947)Sawdust And Tinsel (1953)Dreams (1955)So Close To Life (1958)

• After The Rehearsal | DVD | (27/03/2006) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (55.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ingmar Bergman brings the worlds of cinema and theater together as a stage director takes on his new actress and former mistress in a duel of wits whilst they rehearse a new play together. Henrik Vogler (Erland Josephson) an aging director in the process of staging a production of August Strindberg's 'A Dream's Play' remains in the theatre alone one night after a rehearsal has taken place to reflect on his life and career. He is subsequently joined by young ingenue Anna (Lena Olin

• A Lesson In Love | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Bergman brings a refreshing wit to this dark domestic comedy tale of a married couple who desperately need each other. David (Gunnar Bjrnstrand) is a gynaecologist who is involved with a young patient. His wife Marianne (Eva Dahlbeck) learns of this transgression and begins an affair with his best friend. They attempt a trial separation however an ecounter upon a train bound for Copenhagen reminds them of the good times and connection they have with each other. Mirroring the

• Crisis | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £8.49   |  Saving you £11.50 (57.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  18 year old Nelly (Inga Landgre) lives a quiet life in a small town with her foster mother. There she makes a living giving piano lessons and letting a room to Ulf (Allan Bohlin) who is in love with her. Despite her financial problems Nelly's foster mother manages to save enough money to buy a new dress to wear at a charity ball. However when Nelly's real mother Jenny (Marianne Lfgren) also buys a dress Nelly wears this instead. Attracted by the glamorous garment and the pr

• Bergman/Sjostrom | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Phantom Carriage Sjstrm wrote directed and starred in this silent movie that retells a legend about the last man to die on New Year's Eve. When he gets drunk and suffers a terrible accident Sjstrm is confronted with the Carriage of the Dead and forced to relive his life so that he can see how alcoholism destroyed all that he once held dear. The Image Makers depicts an imaginary meeting between four great figures in Swedish cultural history: Selma Lagerlf world-famous story-teller and Nobel Prize laureate Viktor Sjstrm one of Sweden's greatest film directors and actors of all time Julius Jaenzon legendary and brilliant film photographer and Tora Teje one of the leading Swedish actresses of the 1890s. One autumn day in 1920 they gather together to look at a provisional version of Sjstrm's silent film Krkarlen based upon one of Selma Lagerlf's most famous novels.

• Music In Darkness | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in 1948 Ingmar Bergman's fourth feature proved highly popular in his native Sweden and helped cement his position as one of the world's most promising direcctors. The film tells the heartwrenching story of a blind piano teacher who falls in love with one of his students a tale laden with masterfully directed dream sequences and breathtaking imagery.

• Fanny And Alexander - Remastered | DVD | (16/11/2009) from £14.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (35.16%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander (Bertil Guve) we witness the great delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family-a sprawling convivial bourgeois clan living in turn-of-the-century Sweden. Intended as Ingmar Bergman's swan song Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) is the legendary filmmaker's warmest and most autobiographical film a triumph that combines his trademark melancholy and emotional rigor with immense joyfulness and sensuality. Bergman was quoted as saying Fanny and Alexander is the sum total of my life as a film-maker. The multiple awards won worldwide attest to that fact.

• Classic Bergman - 5 Disc Set | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £24.95   |  Saving you £25.04 (100.36%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Legendary auteur Ingmar Bergman emerged in the late '40s as an art-house icon and remained one for more than four decades.This set includes four early masterpieces on DVDIt Rains On Our Love (1946)A Ship Bound For India (1947)Sawdust And Tinsel (1953)Dreams (1955)So Close To Life (1958)

• The Devil's Eye (Bergman 1960) | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The devil has a stye in his eye caused by the purity of a vicar's daughter. To get rid of it he sends Don Juan up from hell to seduce the 20 year old Britt-Marie and to rob her of her virginity and her belief in love. She however can resist him and things get even turned around when Don Juan falls in love with her. The fact that he feels love for the first time now makes him even less attractive to her and Don Juan returns to hell.

• From The Life Of The Marionettes | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made in Munich while Bergman was in self-imposed exile from Sweden, From the Life of the Marionettes is not so much a "whodunit" as a "whydunnit". The film opens with the shockingly violent and senseless murder of a prostitute by Peter, a young, successful businessman. Through a series of non-chronological flashbacks to a time before the crime, we attempt to fathom just what impelled Peter to perpetrate this terrible murder. Along with wife Katarina, the character Peter also featured in Bergman's 1973 film Scenes from a Marriage. Here, as there, we see that they are wedded in the sense of being emotionally chained to each other, yet hating each other for their mutual dependency. There is also a perturbing scene in which they both appear to "get off" when he takes a knife to her throat. His cold and duplicitous psychiatrist glibly ascribes the murder to a repressed homosexuality resulting in a violent outburst, while Katarina's business partner, who is gay, appears to harbour a desire to sabotage the pair's marriage. This film has an airless, fake-lit quality about it, which reflects the conditions of the characters' lives but by the end, leaves you mesmerised and still uncertain as to why what happened has happened. A late but great Bergman work. On the DVD: This edition adequately enhances the stark monochrome in which most of the film is set. Bergman's notes reveal that his depictions of Peter in his psychiatric ward were based on his own behaviour during a recent spell in a similar institution following his arrest for tax evasion. Philip Strick's critical notes observe that the sparing use of colour at the beginning and end of the film signify what may have been the only times in Peter's life when he "experienced reality". --David Stubbs

• To Joy | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (93.14%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of Ingmar Bergman's key early works - directed when he was just 30 years old - To Joy explores some of the themes that would come to chracterise many of his later films: the incompatibility of spouses and the responsibility of artists. Marta and Stig both play in an orchestra conducted by Sonderby. Their relationship is a happy one and they soon decide to get married and have children. However things begin to turn sour when Stig begins a sordid affair that threatens to dest

• Three Strange Loves | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Ingmar Bergman's dramatisation of four Birgit Tengroth short stories novel which interweaves several episodes from the lives of Rut (Henning) and her husband Bertil (Malmsten)... Intricate and intense this powerful psychological drama is based on works by Birgit Tengroth (who also plays Viola in the film) and stands as a true Ingmar Bergman classic. Upon its original release in 1949 the lesbian relationship featured in the film was removed by censors: Bergman's original vision is

• Port Of Call | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £13.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (31.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Unable to live with her mother Berit (Nine-Christine Jnsson) is institutionalised for many years. When she is released from the institution she ends up on the streets of the harbour slums of Gothenburg and is forced to take a job. The job is conditional on her living with her mother and she is a young woman in deep suicidal despair. One night she escapes her mother's overbearing apartment to go to a dance and in an effort to lighten her spirits she meets a sailor and tells her new

• Artificial Eye 40th Anniversary Collection: Volume 4 | DVD | (05/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Revisit iconic world cinema titles with a special collection of films celebrating Artificial Eye's 40th anniversary. Read more at http://www.curzonartificialeye.com/artificial-eye-40th-anniversary-collection-volume-4-classics/#QIlcd7gBHroQBOc8.99

• The Seventh Seal | DVD | (28/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  As the Black Death continues to wipe out the population of Europe Knight Antonius Block (Max Von Sydow) returns from the crusades. Disillusioned and worn he encounters Death and makes a bargain - his fate will be determined by a game of chess. Taking a troupe of travelling players and a deaf girl under his protection the knight plays the game with Death who as the pieces fall exacts his toll. All the while the villages and towns about them fall into ruin and religion takes a stranglehold. This beautifully restored edition is presented here with previously unseen on-set footage shot during the film's production in late 1956 and is complimented by Bergman's powerful and evocative short film Karin's Face.

• Artificial Eye 40th Anniversary Collection: Volume 4 | Blu Ray | (05/12/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  THREE COLOURS BLUE - The first instalment of the late Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski's trilogy on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity, the three colours of the French flag. Blue is the most sombre of the three, a movie dominated by feelings of grief. As the film begins, a car accident claims the life of a well-known composer. His wife, played by Juliette Binoche, does not so much put the pieces of her life back together as start an entirely new existence. BABETTES FEAST - Babette's Feast is a film which depicts so little, yet says so much. Set in a rural Danish community, it centres around the twin sisters of the village pastor and the French women who serves them after fleeing the 1871 revolution. On winning the lottery she plans a feast to mark the centenary of the sisters' father, bringing a dimension of fine living into the lives of the God-fearing Lutherans and healing festering personal animosities in the process. THE 400 BLOWS - Francois Truffaut's semi-autobiographical first feature stars Jean-Pierre Léaud as Antoine Doinel, an unruly young Parisian whose unhappiness leads him into trouble. Frequently running away from school and home, Antoine spends much of his time playing with his friends on the steets of the city; but events take a more serious turn when an accusation of plagiarism leads him to quit school and the theft of a typewriter lands him in trouble with the police. SAWDUST AND TINSEL - While traveling in caravan through the country of Sweden, one member of the decadent Alberti Circus tells the owner and ringmaster Albert Johansson a sad story about the clown Frost: seven years ago, his wife Alma was surprised by him bathing naked in a lake with a regiment.