In 1972, Wes Craven began his long career as a horror filmmaker with The Last House On The Left, an uncredited adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's The Virgin Spring. While Last House was controversial at ...

More convincingly medieval than his breakthrough film The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring is a dark ballad of revenge balanced between Christianity and paganism. Max von Sydow's daughter is raped and ...

Head film critic for Mountain Xpress from December 2000 until his death in June 2016. Author of books "Ken Russell's Films," "Charlie Chan at the Movies," "A Critical Guide to Horror Film Series," ...

Watching Ingmar Bergman's films, a moment arrives when the game of "Symbol, Symbol, who's got the Symbol," no longer suffices, the splicing of brilliant scenes becomes disjointed rather than hypnotic, ...

Here are some helpful extras before you press play about the SF Studios drama flick. The Virgin Spring starring Max von Sydow, Birgitta Valberg, Gunnel Lindblom, Birgitta Pettersson has a Not Rated ...

Inspired by a medieval Swedish ballad, Ingmar Bergmans The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukallan) begins with a scene of unspeakable brutality and ends with an image of uncommon beauty. 15-year-old Birgitta ...

Ingmar Bergman was in a particularly positive frame of mind when he embarked upon this daunting 13th-century parable. Indeed, he devised his comedy The Devil’s Eye while Ulla Isaksson worked on her ...