Images: My Life in Film by Ingmar Bergman (Hardcover First Edition)

Published by Arcade Publishing, 1990
Hardcover
First printing
442 pages
9x6 inches

Near Fine condition, aside from price sticker at base of spine. Comes in removable protective Brodart mylar cover.

Ingmar Bergman presents an intimate view of his own unique body of work in film. 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.