Peter Cowie
Author
Description
Peter Cowie's book chronicles the life and the sixty-year film and stage career of Ingmar Bergman as he wrestles of themes of love, sex, and betrayal with the figure of Death hovering overhead.
Blending biographical information with critical comment, Cowie presents a man whose life and work were intimately fused.
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A peasant girl is raped and murdered in 14th century Sweden. When her killers seek shelter in her father's house, he kills them to avenge her death. Soon a spring appears from where the girl was killed and her father sees this as a sign from above.
Series
Criterion collection volume 766
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (168 min.) : sound, black and 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, the film follows a working-class boy's development, from naive teenager to intellectually curious young adult, from logger to movie projectionist to politically engaged man of...
Series
Criterion collection volume 2
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (207 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (55 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.).
Appears on list
Description
Tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire seven out-of-work warriors to protect them from invading bandits.
Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (97 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 pages).
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.