"We'll always have Morocco" - much more than just Rick's Cafe Jun 30, 2008
Rick's Cafe, opened by American Kathy Kriger in 2004, is a marvelous evocation of the Rick's Cafe in "Casablanca," the famed movie directed by Michael Curtiz, released in 1942, starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart. (Photo Source: Shanghai Daily). (Xinhuanet, China)
Green porno? Jun 23, 2008
Rossellini (55), daughter of the actress Ingrid Bergman and director Roberto Rossellini, grabbed film-goers' attention with her disturbing erotic role as Dorothy Vallens in the 1986 David Lynch classic 'Blue Velvet. Now she has donned fake bug eyes, wings and bee-stripes for the playful mini-films, which she also wrote and produced adding a dash of stardom to the offbeat festival, which broke new ground when it was first held in 2005. (iAfrica.com)
JAY BOOKMAN: As time goes by, one movie's magic lives on Jun 22, 2008
We came to watch Humphrey Bogart lament that "of all the gin joints in all the world, she walks into mine." We came to giggle at Claude Rains claiming to be "shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here."And we came to hear Bogie tell Ingrid Bergman that "it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."The enduring appeal of "Casablanca" would probably startle those who made the movie, because it's such a... (Fresno Bee -- Opinion)
As time goes by, one movie's magic still abides Jun 19, 2008
And we came to hear Bogie tell Ingrid Bergman one more time that "it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.". The enduring appeal of "Casablanca" would probably startle those who made the movie, because it's such a product of a unique moment in our history. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Opinion)
History of the Herms Kelly Bag Jun 12, 2008
Although other Hollywood stars carried this iconic bag, (such as Ingrid Bergman and Marlene Dietrich) none had the same impact as Grace Kelly. The Kelly bag now enjoys a cult status and is a modern day moviestar in its own right, featuring in recent TV and Hollywood movies such as Sex and the City and Le Divorce. (Suite101.com)
Have Indian architects failed to come up with solutions in line with India's needs? May 25, 2008
The scandalous elopement of Sonali Dasgupta and Rossellini was the stuff of tabloids across the world, more so since his wife at the time was no less than the beauteous Ingrid Bergman. Dilip Padgaonkars recently released book Under Her Spell: Roberto Rossellini in India sheds considerable light on this cross-cultural love story but also draws attention to an equally interesting sidelight: Nehrus penchant for talent of an international calibre, for many of Indias ambitious... (India Times)
Top 10 Movie MacGuffins May 21, 2008
The plot of this classic was most recently "borrowed" by Mission: Impossible II. Cary Grant plays an intelligence agent who recruits Ingrid Bergman to infiltrate a spy ring in South America run by the urbane Claude Rains. It turns out that these villains are after plutonium in order to make an atom bomb, a plot that was unique at the time but has been done to death ever since. (IGN FilmForce)
That Bengal mystique May 5, 2008
When the renowned Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini left the gorgeous Ingrid Bergman for an unknown Bengali woman he met on a sojourn in India in the late 1950s, the world was shocked. The international press hounded him to the Taj hotel in Bombay, trying to fathom the tall, dusky, reclusive Sonali Dasgupta. (India Times)
Angela Lansbury adds another role: ALS spokeswoman Apr 16, 2008
For her Oscar-nominated debut in 1944, she joined Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer in the suspenseful classic "Gaslight." Soon after, she played Elizabeth Taylor's big sister in "National Velvet.". Never an ingenue or leading lady, Lansbury typically played take-charge types, whether the ribald flapper of Broadway's eponymous "Mame" or Laurence Harvey's power-mad mom in the 1962 thriller "The Manchurian Candidate," or even kindly Mrs. Potts, the tea pot she voiced in the 1991 cartoon "Beauty and... (Yahoo News)
New on DVD: 'Demon' Depp, Bette Davis and the 39th president Apr 4, 2008
On this combination clip assemblage and Douglas family look-back, guests include John Lennon and Yoko Ono (who co-hosted for a week), Alfred Hitchcock, Ingrid Bergman, Bob Hope with tiny prodigy Tiger Woods and, in a head-spinning mix that was typical, Martin Luther King Jr. with singer Tony Martin. Bobby Deerfield* 1/2; 1977, Sony, PG, $20 Sydney Pollack directed this notorious Al Pacino-Marthe Keller bomb, which combines the auto racing and cancer genres to extremely pokey effect. (USA Today -- Life)
Madonna to Star in 'Casablanca' Remake? Apr 4, 2008
The Evita star is reportedly keen to modernize the Oscar-winning romantic drama, which originally starred Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, and possibly set the film in Iraq ... A studio source says, "She is still determined to make it in the movies. She and her representatives have been touting around a project which is a remake of Casablanca. The reception has been lukewarm to say the least. No one can understand why she wants to redo what many people consider the greatest film of all... (Hanford Sentinal, CA)
SEXY HEADLINES STICK Mar 20, 2008
Academy Award-winning Ingrid Bergman ("For Whom the Bell Tolls," "Casablanca"), married to Dr. Aron Petter Lindstrom at the time, became pregnant courtesy of Italian director Roberto Rossellini. It was the '50s. (New York Post -- Gossip)
As Time Goes By Mar 16, 2008
Posters made for Japan, Sweden, Yugoslavia and Argentina are highly coveted for their slightly kitschy appeal; but it is a poster from Belgium, showing Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman cheek to cheek that is perhaps the most famous. Video. (Forbes)
Read on... Mar 7, 2008
Marlon Brando, Ingrid Bergman, Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire. If you could play any real-life person in a movie, who would it be and why. (Variety)
Up for Air: Oscar time brings out some old chestnuts Feb 28, 2008
The week of the Oscars brings a lot of old chestnuts out of the cupboard, and I found myself glued (unintentionally) to The Bells of St. Mary s with Ingrid Bergman and Bing Crosby, easily a two-hankie job, along with Going My Way, which, for a very short period of time, made me want to be a nun. A very short time. (Marblehead Reporter, MA)
Best yet to come Feb 26, 2008
The five-disc Best Actress Collection has Anastasia, The Three Faces of Eve, Norma Rae, Boy's Don't Cry and Walk the Line, featuring winners from Ingrid Bergman to Reese Witherspoon. Next story. (Winnipeg Sun)
'Vantage Point' Feb 22, 2008
How many films have you seen where a set of events has to happen in a particular way for, say, Ingrid Bergman to walk into that bar at that time. The problem with Vantage Point, or at least one problem, is that it depends too much on coincidence. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Talk of the Town: Happy birthday, Oscar! Feb 22, 2008
One of the few films to be on every list that actually won Best Picture, is Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. This is the worst film we ve ever come across, said Bogie, It s just a fright. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
Movies with heart Feb 14, 2008
Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart show the power of love and how through it you can find redemption. The song "As Time Goes By" lingers long after the film is done. (Seacoast New Hampshire)
Valentine's Day fun at the Wilmington Memorial Library Feb 12, 2008
Some suggestions include The Philadelphia Story with Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart, and Katharine Hepburn in a romantic triangle and Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, one that can be viewed again and again. Need some advice on dating. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
Film Underground Presents: Casablanca Feb 8, 2008
It turns out the person who needs them most is the last person he wants to give them to: Isla Lund, his ex-lover from Paris just before the Nazi's marched in, played by the great Ingrid Bergman. She left him waiting in the rain at a train station and he hasn't seen her since. (The New Hampshire, NH)
Baby Girl Names That Begin With I Jan 30, 2008
The name's most famous owner was probably actress Ingrid Bergman of Casablanca fame. Ingrid comes from an old name that means "Ing's beauty," as does the similar name Inga. (Suite101.com)
FABULOUS LADY MADE IN ITALY Jan 25, 2008
model, actress, mother of Lancome's face Elettra Rossellini, daughter of the late movie star Ingrid Bergman and film director Roberto Rossellini, is now the ... " She's also readying for what would be Ingrid Bergman's 100th birthday August 2015. "My mother kept everything. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Cassandras Dream Jan 22, 2008
Naturally there was plenty of cross-pollination between the two genres, but by and large the director functioned as a disciple of twin gods -- the Marx Brothers and Ingrid Bergman -- from whose inspiration came such venerated films as Sleeper, Annie Hall, and September. More recently, he seems to have swapped out at least one of those muses for Alfred Hitchcock, whose influence was first immediately evident in Match Point, if not to a lesser degree in 1989's Crimes and Misdemeanors. (IGN FilmForce)
Rossellini debuts her horny bugs Jan 22, 2008
Isabella, who wrote the script, starred as herself, her father, Alfred Hitchcock, her own movie-goddess mother, Ingrid Bergman, and Federico Fellini, as she presents her father's arguments for a naturalistic cinema free of all artifice. This approach to film is in direct contrast to that of Maddin, a director who adores artifice in the extreme, but he reminded her of her father, both for their warmth and their fondness for a kind of "handmade" cinema. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Frankenheimer collection on DVD Jan 17, 2008
The director's sharp talent and eclectic tastes clearly were on view in his more than 150 live dramas made between 1954 and 1960, memorable outings like "The Last Tycoon" (starring Jack Palance), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (with Jason Robards, Maureen Stapleton and Eli Wallach), the original "Days of Wine and Roses" (featuring Cliff Robertson and Piper Laurie), "The Turn of the Screw" (starring Ingrid Bergman) and "The Browning Version" (which marked Sir John Gielgud's first TV appearance). As... (Yahoo News -- Auto Racing)
James Costigan, 81, actor and award-winning TV writer Jan 14, 2008
Mr. Costigan also received an Emmy nomination for his 1959 adaptation of "The Turn of the Screw," for which Ingrid Bergman won an Emmy Award. But for the next dozen or so years - as he saw television increasingly devote itself to cowboys, sitcoms and police shows - Mr. Costigan turned his attention elsewhere. (Boston Globe)
'Fang' Lee: cruel but true Jan 11, 2008
" What this film and Brokeback taught the long-married Lee, he told The Guardian, is that he is a desperate romantic at heart. And when Wong Chia Chi spends her afternoons at the movies, weeping with Ingrid Bergman and sighing over Cary Grant, it could be him up there. "I think movies do draw a theatrical character ... And I figure that the mannerisms, the way she behaves, the way she plays Mak she could take from an international movie star like Ingrid Bergman. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Better than a lottery hit Jan 6, 2008
"But, as we know, Kevin McHale caved, accepting Theo Ratliff, Ryan Gomes, Sebastian Telfair, Gerald Green, Jefferson, and two first-rounders (one of them being the one McHale had sent to Boston in the Wally Szczerbiak-Ricky Davis deal) for a first-ballot Hall of Famer and, as we now sit, this season's leader for Most Valuable Player. It has to rank as one of the best trades since Jack Warner pried Ingrid Bergman away from David O. Selznick for six weeks to film "Casablanca" - and agreed to... (Boston Globe)
Movie: Ang Lee returns with tale of secret passion Dec 28, 2007
Later, Lee turns a couple of lovely scenes with Wong losing it at the movies, weepily watching Ingrid Bergman in "Intermezzo," paying for a ticket for "Penny Serenade.". Also very good in "Lust, Caution" is Kuang Yu Min (the Asian pop star Wang Leehom), as the leader of the theater company and of the resistance cell - a man clearly troubled by the lengths he's asked Wong to go to insinuate herself into Yee's world. (Juneau Empire)
'Dali: Painting & Film' captures the artist – and showman Nov 19, 2007
The relevant moments, in which Dr. Anthony Edwardes (Gregory Peck) describes his dream to fellow psychiatrist Dr. Constance Petersen (Ingrid Bergman), as it materializes, is screening continuously in the same gallery. One look at the painting of multiple eyes Dali did for Spellbound and you know he remained a potent image-maker well into the 1940s. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
As gorno ankles, zitcoms roll out Nov 12, 2007
Bogart was the hero in "Casablanca," a 1942 film that coined more popular phrases than any other: "Play it, Sam," said Ingrid Bergman. (Not as it is remembered, with again inserted. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
Redfords politics hit the big screen in Lions Nov 3, 2007
The film wants to be Casablanca a love triangle between isolationist American (Humphrey Bogart, Redford), beautiful woman of Swedish descent (Ingrid Bergman, Olin) and committed revolutionary (Paul Henreid, Julia) but, among the ways it fails, it fails most spectacularly this way: while Redfords isolationist American may give up the woman he loves, as Bogarts did, he never becomes politically engaged. Cuba in 1958 is not North Africa in 1941, after all. (MSNBC -- Movies)
Bergman's wife to be reburied in Faro Oct 26, 2007
Ingrid Bergman - not to be confused with the Swedish actress with the same name - died in 1995. Her cremated remains were buried in Roslags bro, on the Swedish mainland. (FOX 11, AZ)
News in brief Oct 26, 2007
Ingrid Bergman, not to be confused with the Swedish actress of the same name, died in 1995. Associated Press in Stockholm. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
LESLIE CRISS: Tears on TV open floodgates to dogged media attention Oct 22, 2007
10/21/2007 9:34:55 AMDaily Journal. Happiness is a warm puppy. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
Deborah Kerr, British actress, is dead at 86 Oct 19, 2007
Time magazine, in a 1947 feature article, predicted she would be one of the great movie stars because "while she could act like Ingrid Bergman, she was really a kind of converted Greer Garson, womanly enough to show up nicely in those womanly roles.". Today in Culture. (International Herald Tribune)
'Lust, Caution' is an epic of espionage, eroticism Oct 5, 2007
Lee and Schamus drop a few classic-film clues to help us find our way: movie-theater shots of Cary Grant in "Penny Serenade"; Ingrid Bergman in "Intermezzo"; a poster for Hitchcock's "Suspicion." Ah, got it: Grant, Bergman, Hitchcock - this is Ang Lee's "Notorious." Unfortunately, it's just not notorious enough. Ty Burr can be reached at. (Boston Globe)
BORAT READY FOR 'THE PARTY' Oct 2, 2007
He chose my friend Charlotte Chandler's Ingrid Bergman biography. And also there was Charlotte's fresh paperback of her classic Groucho Marx bio "Hello, I Must Be Going." This reissue celebrates Groucho's 117th birthday, He died in 1977. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Sacha Baron Cohen ready to 'Party' Oct 2, 2007
BILL CLINTON was in the Book People store in Austin pushing "Giving." He decided he'd buy something for Hillary and Chelsea, Charlotte Chandler's Ingrid Bergman biography and the fresh paperback of her classic Groucho Marx bio "Hello, I Must Be Going." This re-issue celebrates Groucho's 117th birthday -- which is today. Not long before Groucho died in 1977, I was invited to meet him at the home of Burt Reynolds. (Variety)
Cue that laugh track Sep 29, 2007
Is Ingrid Bergman available. What about Hepburn. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
All Aboard For Our Most Memorable Movie Train Rides, In Rewind Sep 26, 2007
It's up to the erudite Belgian sleuth to deduce the killer among an ensemble including Ingrid Bergman, Michael York, Lauren Bacall, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins and Sean Connery, all gleefully hamming it up in this period whodunit (for which Bergman won an Oscar). 3. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Television movies for the week of Sept. 9 Sep 9, 2007
TV Movies: Sept. 9-15. G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Set a spy to catch a spy Sep 2, 2007
Breach, on the other hand, resembles Hitchcock's supreme masterpiece Notorious, a thriller devoid of violence, but packed with suspense, in which federal agent Cary Grant manipulates Ingrid Bergman into gaining the confidence of, and destroying, Claude Rains, on the face of it a decent, likable human being, all in the interests of the state and motivated by patriotism. Director Billy Ray and his co-screenwriters Adam Mazer and William Rotko, begin their film with an clip of a TV newsreel from... (The Observer)
Spies, lies, and enough sex to frighten the reindeer Sep 2, 2007
Shot by Mexico's Rodrigo Prieto, this is a beautiful cinematic experience, an old-fashioned, handsome picture that nods to the seductive power of movies - posters for Destry Rides Again here, a clip of Ingrid Bergman sobbing there - indeed, it's on the way to the pictures that Leung first instructs his chauffeur to bring Wei to the secret apartment that will become their sex nest. Lust, Caution is like a Ming vase, though, and while it's a wondrous object to behold, it somehow lacks a sense of... (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Today in History August 29 Aug 29, 2007
In 1982, Academy Award-winning actress Ingrid Bergman died in London on her 67th birthday. In 1987, Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz. (MSNBC -- Race)
Amphitheatre grand opening this weekend Aug 29, 2007
Featured will be "Casablanca," starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Paul Henried. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and the moving begins at 8 p.m.. (The St. Augustine Record)
The week's best films Aug 16, 2007
If you can swallow Ingrid Bergman as a missionary called Gladys Aylwards, Curt Jurgens as a Chinese army captain and the Welsh hillsides as rural China, you'll enjoy this. It's a highly romanticised account of Ms Aylward's travails, and how she led 100 Chinese children to safety. (Guardian Unlimited -- Film)
Infotainment Aug 9, 2007
In the 1942 film, Humphrey Bogart played a club owner who romances a married Ingrid Bergman. Shes been cruelly dubbed Thigh-ra Banks and Americas Next Top Waddle. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
You must remember this... Casablanca to get Indian remake Aug 9, 2007
Made in 1942, Casablanca tells of a cynical bar owner in wartime Morocco drawn into the conflict when an old flame, played by Ingrid Bergman, arrives looking for help. Directed by Michael Curtiz, it was named the third greatest American film of all time by the American Film Institute earlier this year. (BBC News -- South Asia)
Casablanca remake to be set against Sir Lankan conflict Aug 8, 2007
In the 1942 film, Humphrey Bogart played a club owner who romances a married Ingrid Bergman and helps her escape the Nazis with her husband, a resistance leader. My film will be a tribute to the original, said Rajeev Nath, the director who plans to premiere his Malayalam language remake, Ezham Mudra ( The Seventh Seal), in the coastal Moroccan city where the original was set. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Closing credits Aug 6, 2007
After a pause, she confessed she'd always confused Ingmar Bergman with Ingrid Bergman, and what did he actually do. The next day was worse: She hadn't heard of Antonioni at all. (Boston Globe -- Living)
How film lost its direction Aug 6, 2007
In Autumn Sonata, Bergman made a film with the dying Ingrid Bergman, which is a revelation in the Dostoyevskian intensity and brilliance that is brought to bear on the mother-daughter relationship. But this kind of treasure is to be found everywhere in Bergman's work. (The Australian)
Masterful artists, fiercely individual Aug 6, 2007
One very undergraduate guy did confuse Ingmar with Ingrid Bergman (they later worked well together, on Autumn Sonata ). As for Antonioni, the name Michelangelo connoted the noble marble of the old Florentine master. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Master of world cinema delved deep into our souls Aug 1, 2007
He left Sweden and moved to Munich, where he directed for the stage and made films, including his masterful mother-daughter study, "Autumn Sonata" (1978), starring Ingrid Bergman (in her last film performance) and Ullmann. The charges against Bergman were dropped, and he returned to Sweden in 1981 to film the autobiographical "Fanny and Alexander" (1983), which became his greatest international hit. (San Francisco Chronicle)
'Towering figure' in world cinema Jul 31, 2007
Mr. Bergman eventually returned to Sweden to direct "Autumn Sonata" with Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman and his masterpiece, "Fanny and Alexander," after which he announced his retirement from movies. Typically, he kept directing plays and even a few more films. (Chicago Tribune)
* Cinematic icon dies at 89 Jul 31, 2007
I think it's awful," Bergman said. Though best known internationally for his films, Bergman was also a prominent stage director. He worked at several playhouses in Sweden from the mid-1940s, including the Royal Dramatic Theater in Stockholm, which he headed from 1963 to 1966. He staged many plays by the Swedish author August Strindberg, whom he cited as an inspiration. A life summed up Ingmar Bergman sought to exorcise a traumatic childhood through cinematic masterpieces whose major themes were... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Ingmar Bergman dies at 89 Jul 31, 2007
The director was particularly noted for his depictions of women, with actresses such as Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, Liv Ullmann and Ingrid Bergman offering beautiful work under his direction. Bergman was once asked how he had such insight into women and he responded that he only depicted how women talk and behave, and he never tried to explain them. (Variety)
Ratner proves box office prowess Jul 31, 2007
While Ratner loves to throw parties at Hilhaven Lodge, once owned by Ingrid Bergman and Alan Carr (who built a small orange-mirrored disco in the basement), truth is he doesn't drink, smoke or do drugs. He does like to hang with gorgeous women. (Variety)
Film great Bergman dies Jul 31, 2007
Yet the same year, after declaring the end of his inspiration, he entered another golden phase of his career with 1978's "Autumn Sonata," a tightly-knit emotional battle between mother and daughter starring Ingrid Bergman (no relation) and Ullmann. Between films, he retreated to his home on the rainswept, stony seascape on Faro Island in the Baltic Sea, and spoke of his need to live remote from civilization, among the sound of waves and a ticking grandfather clock. (AZCentral -- News)
Obituary: Ingmar Bergman Jul 30, 2007
Happily, when he finally worked with Ingrid Bergman in Autumn Sonata (1977), the film was in Swedish and helped his return home. It is understandable that Bergman, as an artist, needed control of his work; and, owing his origins to the severest aspects of Scandinavian culture, notably the theatre of August Strindberg and the silent films of his mentor Victor Sjstrm, he was always happiest on home ground. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Marsha Wattanapanich: Carrying a horror film all alone Jul 26, 2007
But, with a Eurasian leading lady whose reel characterization recalls Ingrid Bergman in Notorious and Tippi Hedren in Marnie, and a universal theme in content, Alone may soon be counted among the classics, the way Hitchcock's works have been treated. Alone (in Thai, with English and Indonesian subtitles) is currently playing at Blitz Megaplex. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
AH: Meet the Beckhams new neighbors Jul 18, 2007
Ratners home once belonged to Casablancas legendary actress Ingrid Bergman. Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones have opted for the quiet island life of Bermuda, but they once resided on the very same street as the Beckhams do now. (MSNBC -- News)
It isn't easy to go from sex symbol to serious actress Jun 28, 2007
That's the magical age, as noted in an Esquire piece some years back, when a long list of women bewitched us with iconic roles (Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca, Marilyn Monroe in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Liz Taylor in Suddenly, Last Summer), and you might say it's the age of the Platonic Heather Graham. She was 27, after all, when she slithered into our collective imagination as the sexually ready-for-anything Roller Girl in the backstage porn drama Boogie Nights, and she has been frozen like... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
He retires after 35 years in the chair Jun 27, 2007
" Some of his shows are now the stuff of legend - including the 1976 episode in which he was savaged by avicious Emu and Rod Hull. And it was Parkinson, in 1975, that launched the career of comic Billy Connolly. He had learned of the Big Yin from a taxi driver and, loving comedians, brought the unknown Connolly on to his show. That joke about a bicycle and a naked bum went down a scream and Connolly returned time and time again to be interviewed. Other stars who have appeared on his show... (Glasgow Daily Record)
