Gunnar Björnstrand
1) Winter light
Series
Criterion collection volume 210
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003, c1962
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"In this stark depiction of spiritual crisis, small-town pastor Tomas Ericsson performs his duties mechanically before a dwindling congregation. When he is asked to assist a troubled parishioner with his debilitating fear of nuclear annihilation, Tomas is terrified to find that he can offer nothing but his own uncertainty."--Container.
Series
Criterion Collection volume 11
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A medieval knight returning from the Crusades encounters Death, and plays a chess game with him with the knight's life and soul as the stakes.
3) The magician
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (34 p. : ill.).
Description
A traveling magician bringing his potions and mystical items with him is challenged by the Minister of Health, who believes the magician to be a charlatan. Bonus features include an interview with the director regarding the film and various essays.
4) Shame
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Shame probes the atrocities of war-both internal and external-as a young couple struggles to survive while the world around them crumbles into chaos"--Container.
5) Persona
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic dumbness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([22] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
Description
A sharp satire about eight Swedish aristocrats who become romantically and comically intertwined over a single weekend. Includes Director approved special edition features.
Series
Criterion collection volume 209
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"While vacationing on a remote island retreat, a family's already fragile ties are tested when Karin discovers her father has been using her schizophrenia for his own literary means. As she drifts in and out of lucidity, her father, husband, and younger brother are unable to prevent Karin's harrowing descent into the abyss of mental illness."--Container.
Series
Description
In medieval Sweden, a knight returns from war only to find a ravaged homeland. He meets up with a group of travelling players and eventually confronts the embodiment of death with whom he engages in a game of chess for his life. The knight and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval the plague has caused.
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (168 minutes) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 fold-out insert (16 unnumbered panels : illustrations ; 19 cm)
Description
This mesmerizing debut by the great Swedish director Jan Troell (The Emigrants, The New Land) is an epic bildungsroman and a multilayered representation of early twentieth-century Sweden. Based on a series of semi-autobiographical novels by Nobel Prize winner Eyvind Johnson, Here Is Your Life follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged...
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (474 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Torment: A dark coming-of-age drama about a boarding-school senior, Widgren, terrorized by his sadistic Latin teacher. When Widgren falls for a troubled local girl, Bertha, he finds himself caught up even further in a web of emotional mind games.
Crisis: Urban beauty-shop proprietress Mrs. Jenny arrives in an idyllic rural town one morning to whisk away her 18-year-old daughter, Nelly, whom she abandoned as a child, from the loving woman who raised...