Liv Ullmann

Anna Shapiro remembers first reading "August: Osage County" late one night in the wintertime."I thought I'd doze off and finish in the morning," she recalls. "But I couldn't put it down." When she got to the end, she rang playwright Tracy Letts, also...

Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of cinema and an artist who changed the way the world perceived the movies, died Monday, local media reported. He was 89 years old. Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden, Swedish news...

Brevity is especially prized this year among the contenders for the animated short Oscar, and the total running time of the five nominees would stop somewhere short of 40 minutes. Magnolia Pictures and Shorts International, the distributors of the 2006...

Fons Rademakers, the Dutch director behind the Academy Award-winning foreign language film "De Aanslag," has died at the age of 86. The filmmaker died of emphysema in a Geneva hospital, reports Dutch media. Alphonse Marie Rademakers was born in Noord-...

There's an old cliche of movie history that really fits this year's movies: The films of 2005 -- especially the best ones -- kept shifting between the two great movie extremes of realism and fantasy. Sometimes, they plunged us into harsh truth, as with...

Ingmar Bergman is back. With a vengeance. "Saraband" is not what might be expected from a venerable director with six decades of experience who will turn 87 next week. But Bergman has never been an ordinary filmmaker, and what he's given us is no genial...

Actor David Carradine has been found dead in his hotel room in Bangkok. The U.S. Embassy confirms the 72-year old died either late Wednesday or early Thursday morning. A Thai newspaper is reporting Carradine was found hanged in his luxury hotel room...

Friday January 7, 2000      Legendary director Ingmar Bergman and actress-turned-director Liv Ullmann have had some remarkable collaborations in the past--"Persona," "Cries and Whispers," "An Autumn Sonata," etc. Now Ullmann has directed "Private...

Friday February 16, 2001      Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullmann made film history with nine films, from "Persona" (1966) to "Autumn Sonata" (1977). They resumed their collaboration when Bergman, who retired from film directing with "Fanny and Alexander"...

One of the cinema's masters and first citizens receives another celebration this week when 10 great films by Sweden's Ingmar Bergman--ranging from his superb 1955 romantic comedy "Smiles of a Summer night" to his 1983 valedictory masterpiece "Fanny and...

Katharine Hepburn, the vibrant and indomitable rebel who became one of the American cinema's greatest actresses and most inspiring personalities--as well as a central figure in one of Hollywood's most moving love stories, with frequent co-star Spencer...