"The finest filmmaker of my lifetime . . . Bergman was a born spinner
of tales." --Woody Allen
In this new paperback edition, Ingmar Bergman presents an intimate view
of his own unique body of work in film. His career spanned forty years
and produced more than fifty films, many of which are considered
classics: The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, Persona, Smiles of
a Summer Night, Wild Strawberries, and Fanny and Alexander, to name
but a few. When he began this book, Bergman had not seen most of his
movies since he made them. Resorting to scripts and working notebooks,
and especially to memory, he comments brilliantly and always cogently on
his failures as well as his successes; on the themes that bind his work
together; on his concerns, anxieties, and moments of happiness; on the
relationship between his life and art.
Readers are allowed a glimpse of the inner workings behind his
well-known masterpieces: his anxiety and pain as he edited a 312 minute
Fanny and Alexander for a three-hour feature film release; his attempt
to reconcile the towering figures of his parents with Wild
Strawberries. He relates his own starkly honest view of his great
triumphs and quiet failures. More clearly than ever before, Images
allows us to listen to his "voice of genius" (Woody Allen, New York
Times Book Review).
