Entries from LAist tagged with 'ingmarbergman'
June 24, 2008
Lucha VaVoom's three-day Summer Nacional starts tonight where Mexican wrestlers battle for the title cup. / Photo by kpe II via LAist's flickr pool. Here’s the down-and-dirty on happenings around town tonight. FILM*: Calling all Ingmar Bergman fans (not to be confused with Ingrid Bergman fans). There’s a screening at the Silent Movie Theatre tonight @ 8 pm of the director’s 1959 supernatural classic The Magician. But here’s the bonus: The film will be......
Continue Reading "Pencil This In: Tuesday"August 1, 2007
We can't count the times, restless and strange, we've walked the empty city streets during those nameless hours between midnight and dawn. Ingmar Bergman captured that feeling precisely, in this nightmare sequence from Wild Strawberries. Catch the rest of the movie, as well as 1960's The Virgin Spring, at the Bergman double feature, playing tonight and Thursday at the New Beverly.......
Continue Reading "Professor Borg's First Nightmare"July 30, 2007
The legendary film director Ingmar Bergman died early this morning at his home in Sweden. He was 89 years old. Born into a middle-class family in Uppsala, Bergman struggled with issues of faith, mortality, and identity throughout his life; these themes would echo through his films, including classics such as Persona, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander, and The Seventh Seal. Bergman is remembered most for his visionary style and his complicated portrayals of love......
Continue Reading "Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89"December 26, 2006
Today - Tuesday Clippers @ Jazz (PRIME, 6:00 p.m.) Coyotes @ Kings (Fox Sports, 7:30 p.m.) Ducks @ Sharks (KDOC, 7:30 p.m.) "Emeril's Kicked Up New Years Celebration" (FOOD, 8:00 p.m.) Watch this show with a bottle of vodka, any time Emeril says "kick it", "notch", or refers to the band or the schmucks in the front row, take a shot. "29th Annual Kennedy Center Honors" (CBS, 9:00 p.m.) Andrew Lloyd Webber, Zubin Mehta,......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie: Xmas Hangover"November 2, 2006
"Naked" (IFC, 7:45 p.m.) David Thewlis stars as a bitterly comedic rapist in Mike Leigh's vicious flick "Visiting... With Huell Howser" (KCET, 8:00 p.m.) Whoah! Huell delivers a "Griffith Observatory Special! - h/t LA Observed "Survivor: Cook Islands" (CBS, 8:00 p.m.) Someone passes out at the Reward Challenge and it gets stormy on Exile Island "My Name Is Earl" and "The Office" (NBC, 8:00-9:00 p.m.) New episodes tonight! "Ugly Betty" (ABC, 8:00 p.m.) The......
Continue Reading "TV Junkie"April 8, 2005
• Bring on the good times when Morris Day & the Time appear at The Vault 350 in Long Beach. Tickets are $40 and the show starts at 7 PM. • At Spaceland, 9 PM brings Paloalto, Hayes, Jonny Was and Unbusted. • Deerhoof play the first of two nights at The Echo, featuring guests Lily Marlene and Young Playthings. Doors open at 6:30 PM; music begins at 7 PM. Tickets are $10 at......
Continue Reading "Purple Rain"