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(0)Gunnar Björnstrand
Series
Criterion collection volume 537
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Swedish
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 11
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Special ed.].
Language
Swedish
Formats
Description
Antonius Block is a knight, who along with his squire, are returning home from the crusades. Black Death is sweeping their country. As they approach home, Death appears to the knight and tells him it is his time. Antonius challenges Death to a chess game for his life. Antonius and Death play as the cultural turmoil envelopes the people around them as they try, in different ways, to deal with the upheaval that the plague has caused.
3) Winter light
Series
Criterion collection volume 210
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Swedish
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 537
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Swedish
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.
Series
Criterion collection volume 237
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Swedish
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
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
Swedish
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
Criterion collection volume 412
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Swedish
Description
A relationship between a turn-of-the-century traveling circus owner and his performer girlfriend suddenly changes, when they pull into the town where the owner's wife and children live, whom he hasn't seen in three years.
8) Persona
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Special ed.
Language
Swedish
Description
A famous actress is stricken with psychosomatic muteness and is placed under a nurse's care in an isolated house, where the two gradually assume each other's personalities.
9) Persona
Series
Criterion collection volume 701
Pub. Date
2014
Language
Swedish
Description
An actress has inexplicably gone mute; a young nurse cares for her in a remote island cottage. While isolated together there, the women perform a mysterious spiritual and emotional transference that would prove to be one of cinema's most influential ideas.
10) The seventh seal
Series
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
RSDL dual-layer ed.; standard format (1.33:1).
Language
Swedish
Description
"After a decade of battling in the Crusades, a knight challenges Death to a fateful game of chess" -- Container.
11) Smultronstället
Series
Criterion collection volume 139
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Language
Swedish
Description
Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg, forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults and accept the inevitability of his approaching death. Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
Swedish
Description
In honor of Ingmar Bergman's one hundredth birthday, the Criterion Collection is proud to present the most comprehensive collection of his films ever released on home video. One of the most revelatory voices to emerge from the postwar explosion of international art-house cinema, Bergman was a master storyteller who startled the world with his stark intensity and naked pursuit of the most profound metaphysical and spiritual questions. The struggles...
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