The Magic Lantern
An Autobiography

Translated by Joan Tate
314 pages
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6 x 9
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© 1987, 2007
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
The Magic Lantern
Ingmar Bergman: A Chronology by Peter Cowie
Index
Ingmar Bergman: A Chronology by Peter Cowie
Index
Review Quotes
Woody Allen | New York Times Book Review
“[Bergman] has found a way to show the soul’s landscape. . . . Many gripping revelations.”
Stanley Kauffmann | New Republic
"In its structure, its tone, its intent, Bergman's book asks to be judged, not as a factual account, however good, but as a work of literature. It succeeds--exactly as he wanted it to: The Magic Lantern is as personal and penetrating as a Bergman film, wry, shadowy, austere.”
Kristi McKim | Film International
"Combined with the life-affecting astonishment that his brutal and beautiful films inspire, The Magic Lantern cultivates a sensitivity towards this film-loving, sometimes self-loathing, sometimes faith-avowing Ingmar Bergman."
John Osborne | New York Review of Books
“Bergman’s minute recall is essentially, astonishingly, visual. Description after description stamp out scenes from his films. The man, his memory, his work are one. . . . It is wonderfully liberating to be made privy to the tangible relish in his craft . . . The Magic Lantern is no conventional autobiography, more a scalding stream of consciousness from the pen of a licentious puritan. . . . He is funny and crisp about several of the Famous and unstrainingly vicious about the dead and dismal critics.”
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