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Ingrid Bergman: in Her Own Words/bd Criterion Collection

Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Criterion Collection) Blu-Ray

Whether headlining films in Sweden, Italy, or Hollywood, Ingrid Bergman always pierced the screen with a singular soulfulness. With this new documentary, made on the occasion of the one hundredth anniversary of Bergmans birth, director Stig Björkman allows us unprecedented access to her world, culling from the most personal of archival materialsletters, diary entries, photographs, and Super 8 and 16 mm footage Bergman herself shotand following her from youth to tumultuous married life and motherhood. Intimate and artful, this lovingly assembled portrait, narrated by actor Alicia Vikander, provides luminous insight into the life and career of an undiminished legend.

FEATURES:

• Genre: DOCUMENTARY
• YEAR: 2015
• COLOR/B&W
• Widescreen
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Run Time: 114 Minutes
• Language: SWEDISH
• Subtitles: ENGLISH SUBTITLES

DIRECTOR APPROVED BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES:

• High-definition digital transfer, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
• New interview with director Stig Björkman
• 8 mm home movies shot by Bergman in the 1930s
• Two deleted scenes, showing Bergmans daughters reading an essay she wrote at age seventeen and an interview with film historian and Bergman scholar Rosario Tronnolone
• Extended versions of scenes featuring interviews with actors Sigourney Weaver and Liv Ullmann and Bergmans daughter Isabella Rossellini and with the three Rossellini siblings
• Clip from the 1932 film Landskamp, featuring Bergman in her first screen role
• Outtakes from Bergmans 1936 film On the Sunny Side
• Music video for Eva Dahlgrens song The Movie About Us, which is included on the films soundtrack
• Trailer
• New English subtitle translation

PLUS: An essay by film scholar Jeanine Basinger"