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10 April 2009 3:32 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

It's a big day in Sweden: The great Max von Sydow turns 80 today. Most people only vaguely familiar with von Sydow probably expect him to be older, because he's played older characters most of his career.

It's astonishing to me that this graceful actor has only received one Oscar nomination, for Pelle the Conquerer. He's been fantastic for 50 years, beginning with his work with Ingmar Bergman. The Seventh Seal is a favorite, but check him out in Wild Strawberries, Through a Glass Darkly, and The Virgin Spring, which I just watched about a month ago because it's the same story as The Last House on the Left.

He's played Jesus (The Greatest Story Ever Told), he's riffed on Blofeld and Ming the Merciless, and has dressed up as Freud, Eugene O'Neill, popes and cardinals, and Brewmaster Smith in Strange Brew. He's done independent films in a host of languages, including »

- Colin Boyd

28 March 2009 3:22 PM, PDT | Cinemaretro.com | See recent CinemaRetro news »

Lee Pfeiffer reports on the Bradford International Film Festival -Day 3

Today's events began at 10:00 Am with a crowd gathering in the Pictureville Cinema for Cinerama Ventures, a festival of documentaries hosted by Dave Strohmaier and Randy Gitsch, producers of the acclaimed documentary Cinerama Adventure. The presentation included new featurettes about the making of How the West Was Won that were frustratingly dropped from the recent deluxe DVD release. One documentary looked at the film's return engagement in the 1990s at the Arclight Hollywood Cinerama Theatre and featured moving interviews with attendees who spoke about how much the film meant to them. Another fascinating documentary centered on the film's legendary run at the small Neon Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. The theater was specially fixed to conform with Cinerama projection standards and How the West Was Won was intended to run for a matter of weeks...instead it ran for years, »

- nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)

2 articles from 2009