Bergman Blog-a-thon!

One student.

Six months off Uni.

Thirty Ingmar Bergman DVDs.

Oh yes that's right- I will be watching 30 Bergman films and I shall blog and review about each of them over the coming weeks. Why? Because it'll give me something constructive to do and keep me out of trouble.

So to explain- I'm a huge Bergman fan. I'm writing an essay on him (for Drama!). I've read his autobiographies and seen a fair few of his films. I saw the 'Bergman Collection' Box Set on eBay. 30 films, only 1000 box sets worldwide, so I decided to fight for it. I paid £205 for it, but I think it'll be worth it. So worth it, I've got to blog about it in the hope fellow Bergman fans will find it.

So here are the films (the ones with * meant I've seen it before, but I'll review it anyway):

Torment
Crisis
Music in Darkness
Port of Call
Prison
Three Strange Loves
To Joy
Summer Interlude
Waiting Women
Summer With Monika *
A Lesson In Love
Dreams
Smiles of a Summer Night *
The Seventh Seal *
Wild Strawberries
The Magician *
The Virgin Spring *
Through A Glass Darkly *
Winter Light *
The Silence *
All These Women
Persona *
The Rite
Cries And Whispers
Scenes From A Marriage
Autumn Sonata
Faro-Dokument 1979
From the Life of the Marionettes
After the Rehearsal
Saraband

So I've seen 9 of the films in the set already, mostly from the middle period. So I get to follow his development as a director as I'll be watching the films chronologically. The only ones I've disappointed aren't in the set are Sawdust and Tinsel (I've seen it before, but it's great) and Fanny and Alexander. That aside I think I've got a good selection of classic and the early films (they're hard to get a hold of).

So, let the Swedish melancholy begin!