Archive for category: Ingmar Bergman

The Seventh Seal – DVD (and Blu-ray) for Week

17 June, 2009 (17:17) | DVD, Ingmar Bergman, by Sean Axmaker | By: Sean Axmaker

Arguably the most famous of Ingmar Bergman’s films and certainly his most iconic, The Seventh Seal is Bergman at his most allegorical. Max von Sydow, young and blond and heroic, is a disillusioned knight returned from the Crusades in a state of spiritual desperation: his faith has been shaken by senseless [...]