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No filmmaker more deserves the lavish treatment that the Criterion Collection recently bestowed on Ingmar Bergman. Created to honor the Swedish writer-director’s centenary, “Ingmar Bergman's Cinema” pairs 39 films on 30 Blu-ray discs (regrettably, there is no DVD edition) with a nearly 250-page coffee-table book featuring a series of essays by Bergman authorities along with excerpts from archival materials and a multitude of compelling photographs.

But the box is more than a compendium of movies gathered in an attractive vessel—or at least it purports to be. Conceived as a permanent “film festival”, it divides Bergman’s singular oeuvre into vague categories like Opening and Closing Nights, Centerpieces and Double Features. Whether that enriches a film lover’s appreciation of this master’s work is debatable, but it might prove a useful starting point for those in need of some guidance. After all, Bergman directed 45 feature films (and wrote even more) before he died at age 89 in 2007.

Bergman deserves his reputation among cineastes as a meticulous prober of life’s big questions and man’s inability to come to terms with most of them.

Bergman's work speaks to the viewer with remarkable clarity and forthrightness, creating an extraordinary sense of intimacy between his characters and his audience. And it's this deeply human desire to connect which accounts for the quality of Bergman’s work that has been least recognized: its accessibility. That Bergman’s films exist not simply to be studied, but to be watched—even enjoyed!—is amply confirmed by the Criterion Collection’s definitive new boxset devoted to the director’s work. Ingmar Bergman's Cinema doesn't quite contain everything the Swedish master ever directed—a few early films and television works are missing—but it comes close. The 30-disc set includes 39 of Bergman’s features, a few of his rare shorts, numerous documentaries on his life and work, and a gorgeous 248-page book of photographs and essays.

30 x Blu-Ray | 1080p AVC | 4152 min
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English

DISC ONE
* "Smiles of a Summer Night"

DISC TWO
* "Crisis"
* "A Ship to India"

DISC THREE
* "Wild Strawberries"

DISC FOUR
* "To Joy"
* "Summer Interlude"

DISC FIVE
* Summer with Monika"

DISC SIX
* "Dreams"
* "A Lesson in Love"

DISC SEVEN
* "Scenes from a Marriage" TV Version

DISC EIGHT
* "Scenes from a Marriage" Theatrical Version
* "Saraband"

DISC NINE
* "From the Life of Marionettes"
* "Hour of the Wolf"

DISC TEN
* "Shame"
* "The Passion of Anna"

DISC ELEVEN
* "Faro Document"
* "Faro Document 1979"

DISC TWELVE
* "Through a Glass Darkly"

DISC THIRTEEN
* "Winter Light"

DISC FOURTEEN
* "The Silence"

DISC FIFTEEN
* "The Virgin Spring"

DISC SIXTEEN
* "The Seventh Seal"

DISC SEVENTEEN
* "The Devil's Eye"
* "All These Women"

DISC EIGHTEEN
* "Sawdust and Tinsel"
* "The Rite"

DISC NINETEEN
* "The Magician"

DISC TWENTY
* "The Magic Flute"
* "After the Rehearsal"

DISC TWENTY-ONE
* "The Touch"
* "The Serpent's Egg"

DISC TWENTY-TWO
* "Persona"

DISC TWENTY-THREE
* "Thirst"
* "Port of Call"

DISC TWENTY-FOUR
* "Cries and Whispers"

DISC TWENTY-FIVE
* "Waiting Women"
* "Brink of Life"

DISC TWENTY-SIX
* "Autumn Sonata

DISC TWENTY-SEVEN
* "Fanny and Alexander" TV Version

DISC TWENTY-EIGHT
* "Fanny and Alexander" Theatrical Version

DISC TWENTY-NINE
* "The Making of Fanny and Alexander" documentary (109:41)

DISC THIRTY
* "Documentaries"

EXTRAS
• Thirty-nine films, including eighteen never before released by Criterion
• Digital restorations of the films, including a new 4K restoration of The Seventh Seal and new 2K restorations of Crisis, Persona, Fanny and Alexander, and many others, with uncompressed monaural and stereo soundtracks
• Eleven introductions by director Ingmar Bergman
• Six audio commentaries
• Over five hours of interviews with Bergman
• Interviews with Bergman’s collaborators, including actors Bibi Andersson, Harriet Andersson, Ingrid Bergman, Erland Josephson, Gunnel Lindblom, Liv Ullmann, and Max von Sydow and cinematographer Sven Nykvist
• Daniel and Karin’s Face, two rarely seen documentary shorts by Bergman
• Documentaries about the making of Autumn Sonata, Fanny and Alexander, The Magic Flute, The Serpent's Egg, The Touch, and Winter Light
• Extensive programs about Bergman’s life and work, including Bergman Island, . . . But Film Is My Mistress, Laterna Magica, Liv & Ingmar, and others
• Behind-the-scenes footage, video essays, trailers, stills galleries, and more

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