Greetings light readers and welcome to a different installment of the Sunday Morning Film. At present it’s one in every of Ingmar Bergman’s lesser identified movies, The Ceremony:
https://youtu.be/E1q4lH_QaCE?si=KHYhVffLW9ZwgfGD
and subsequent week’s movie, Libera, Mio Amore:
Opinions of The Ceremony:
Letterboxd says:
I’m with critics on the time, this can be a very fascinating movie with intriguing characters and tackle the revenge style. You bought these actors being questioned by a decide concerning an “obscene” play they’ve occurring. However as every thing unfolds we come to comprehend all of them share this very darkish and complicated connection, which the decide makes an attempt to exploits however issues appears to backfire ultimately as they carry out this eerie ceremony that provides the film its title.
The masks and the minimalist, bondage-like customs are very creepy, heightened by the rating and the confusion of what’s occurring. It seems like every thing is going down in some type of hell (the decide’s actor’s final title is definitely Hell, unsure if that’s an enormous coincidence) or purgatory. Once more, all of it appears quite simple on paper however by the top I used to be left considerably confused, with a number of unresolved questions, particularly in all its meanings. Perhaps there’s none.
All in all, it makes for an intriguing watch, however would have liked perhaps Cowie or somebody to perhaps do some dive deep and clarify the movie. Once more, it feels quite simple and easy, however on the similar time I used to be left feeling I used to be lacking one thing.
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A captivating, haunting, and completely thought-provoking movie on artwork vs. authority. The narrative actually isn’t with out fault and may very well be seen as pretty sloppy (comparatively to Bergman’s traditional standouts), but it surely gives considerate and honest dialog as at all times.
My take:
It’s an intense little movie. I’m not often given to psychological drama, however Bergman actually captures and holds my consideration right here. The characters are a bit excessive dramatically however that’s form of the purpose, I feel. They aren’t purported to seize full, well-rounded human beings however somewhat psychological points. They’re, I suppose, symbols greater than individuals. I loved it, however solely as soon as: .
Director: Ingmar Bergman
Author: Ingmar Bergman
Plot (Spoilers!):
Three actors have run afoul of the authorities. They’ve carried out a pornographic act and now they need to reply to the regulation. They’re known as in for interviews with a decide.
The interviews don’t go nicely. One of many actors insults the decide. One other makes an attempt to bribe him.
The decide doesn’t take kindly to all of it. The actors search to placate him by performing the act in non-public. The nervous and neurotic decide finds all of it an excessive amount of. He dies, and the actors are free to maneuver on.
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Bonuses:
A Historical past of the Infinite
Professor Adrian Moore journeys by means of philosophical thought on infinity over the past two and a half thousand years. This comes from a BBC radio sequence.
00:00 Horror of the Infinite
13:30 Aristotle’s Rapprochement
27:07 The Infinite & the Divine
40:35 The Infinite & Human Expertise
53:57 The Arithmetic of the Infinitely Small
1:07:28 The Arithmetic of the Infinitely Huge
1:20:13 Disaster & Uncertainty
1:33:39 The Cosmos
1:47:13 Loss of life & Immortality
2:00:43 The place Does This Go away Us?
Frege, Russell, & Trendy Logic – A. J. Ayer & Bryan Magee (1987)
A. J. Ayer discusses the work of Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and fashionable logic with Bryan Magee. That is from the 1987 sequence on the Nice Philosophers with Bryan Magee.
Rod Serling on the subject of RACE
The Artwork of Chris Moore (Slideshow)
Chris Moore was one half of the 2 Chris’s – the opposite being Chris Foss – two giants of British e-book cowl illustration. Though maybe a bit much less well-known than Foss, Chris Moore’s covers dominated the sci-fi part of bookshops whereas I used to be rising up within the 70s and 80’s. He had a higher vary than Foss too – Moore’s illustrations went far past e-book covers and the science fiction style.
Conventional Greenlandic Music – 55 Recordings From (1905-1984)
Conventional Greenlandic Music – 55 Recordings From (1905-1984)
Compiled by Michael Hauser
Launch Date: 1992
Label: ULO CD-75
Classic Obscura Halloween Combine [2026] — SIDE B
