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Classic International Film Festival: The Seventh Seal
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Fri Jan 29
9:30 pm
Classic International Film Festival: The Seventh Seal at Fredric March Play Circle
Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 classic The Seventh Seal may be the quintessential art film, having emerged from the era when the term first began to mean something. Max Von Sydow plays a knight returning home from the Crusades, encountering desolation and plague with every step. Then he literally encounters Death. To delay the end of his life, Von Sydow challenges the black-robed, pasty-faced figure to a game of chess. Bergman’s heavily symbolic examination of the games God plays caused a worldwide sensation in the late ’50s, as its serious themes helped blaze trails for foreign cinema, and the film’s stark imagery and meaningful vignettes still strike a chord with those who don’t mind a little pretension or a lot of allegory. Here, it screens as a part of the Union's Classic International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday at 7 p.m. with Jean Cocteau's 1946 adaptation of Beauty And The Beast, and continues Saturday with The Blue Angel and 8 1/2 (see Saturday's picks for more).
Fredric March Play Circle 800 Langdon St., Madison, WI
Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 classic The Seventh Seal may be the quintessential art film, having emerged from the era when the term first began to mean something. Max Von Sydow plays a knight returning home from the Crusades, encountering desolation and plague with every step. Then he literally encounters Death. To delay the end of his life, Von Sydow challenges the black-robed, pasty-faced figure to a game of chess. Bergman’s heavily symbolic examination of the games God plays caused a worldwide sensation in the late ’50s, as its serious themes helped blaze trails for foreign cinema, and the film’s stark imagery and meaningful vignettes still strike a chord with those who don’t mind a little pretension or a lot of allegory. Here, it screens as a part of the Union's Classic International Film Festival, which kicks off Friday at 7 p.m. with Jean Cocteau's 1946 adaptation of Beauty And The Beast, and continues Saturday with The Blue Angel and 8 1/2 (see Saturday's picks for more).
Updated 01/15/2010
