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  • NT LIVE: DR. STRANGELOVE

    Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove.

    This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack, is led by a world-renowned... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: PORT OF CALL

    Bergman charts the complex relationship between two outsiders in this assured early film; Port of Call, with its shades of Rossellini’s social realist ethos and location shooting, presages the existential explorations that would define his later works. Berit (Nine-Christine Jönsson),... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: THE SEVENTH SEAL

    The best known of Ingmar Bergman’s films, and indeed one of the most iconic works in the canon of twentieth century cinema, The Seventh Seal owes its formidable reputation to a series of indelible monochrome images that have become emblazoned... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: THE MAGICIAN

    Max von Sydow stars as Dr. Vogler, a nineteenth-century traveling mesmerist and peddler of potions and magic lantern performances whose methods are put to the test in Stockholm by the cruel, eminently rational royal medical adviser Dr. Vergérus (Gunnar Bjornstrand).... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: WINTER LIGHT

    Winter Light takes place one stark afternoon in a Swedish village where Tomas Ericsson, (Gunnar Björnstrand), a widowed pastor, struggles to preside over his dwindling congregation. Enduring his own crisis of spirituality, Ericsson is unable to offer solace to a local... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY

    The first part of Bergman’s thematically linked ‘trilogy of faith’ sees the director abandon the expressionism of his fifties work to focus on a series of character-focused dramas exploring belief and alienation in the modern age. It is also his... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: THE VIRGIN SPRING

    One of Ingmar Bergman’s most controversial films, The Virgin Spring, set in 14th century Sweden, takes its inspiration from a medieval ballad (which the director initially considered adapting as an opera) which recounts the tale of Töre (Max von Sydow),... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: WILD STRAWBERRIES

    Professor Isak Borg (veteran director Victor Sjöström) travels from Stockholm to Lund to accept an honorary degree. On the journey he is haunted by memories of his youth, and ominous and disquieting visions, which compel the professor to re-evaluate his... Read More

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  • INGMAR BERGMAN: SMILES OF A SUMMER NIGHT

    After many years of mostly local acclaim, Smiles of a Summer Night was Bergman’s first international success. On the surface, it’s a charming comedy of manners about four men and four women who, during a single night at a country... Read More

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