Remembering Ingmar Bergman

“He will always be remembered first and foremost as one of the most influential of European auteurs, a filmmaker whose enthralling forays into characters’ interior darkness were unmatched in their psychological acuity and inward intensity. But Bergman, who died Monday at 89, will also go down in history as one of the greatest stage directors of the second half of the 20th century, a figure comparable to Britain’s Peter Brook, Italy’s Giorgio Strehler, France’s Ariane Mnouchkine and Germany’s Peter Stein.”