We dug up this story from the Sight and Sound archives penned by Ingmar Bergman's daughter Lena, who remembers her father's very specific movie-watching habits. Inside a converted barn on Fårö island, just off the mainland of southeast Sweden, Bergman had his own private cinema, where he watched his favorite movies every day at 3 o'clock. Except on Saturdays, when movies started at 2. Bergman, who died in 2007 and was also known for his vast personal library of film titles including thousands of VHS tapes, watched films six days a week using a film projector. Read More: Ingmar Bergman's 'Cries and Whispers' Endures on Criterion Blu-ray "I have tried to calculate the number of hours that Ingmar must have spent in his cinema watching movies – sitting, or rather lying, in the armchair in the front row, his feet on the footstool," wrote Lena Bergman. "Imagine: every day after his noon nap,...
- 7/15/2015
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Thompson on Hollywood
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