Alan Bergman, the three-time Oscar-winning lyricist who teamed with his late wife, Marilyn Bergman, to form one of the most celebrated writing duos in the history of movie music, has died. He was 99. Bergman, whose work includes such classics as “The Windmills of Your Mind” — wonderfully employed for the second-season finale of Severance — “Nice ’n’ Easy,” “You …
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Was Ingmar Bergman a Nazi Supporter? Stellan Skarsgard Reopens Issue
Few actors today can toggle between massive blockbusters, like “Dune,” and small-scale auteurist works, such as Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value,” with the ease of Stellan Skarsgård. And few are quite as candid when they open up. As reported by Variety from the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where the actor was promoting “Sentimental Value” and on hand for a tribute, Skarsgård …
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Stellan Skarsgård has weighed in on famed director Ingmar Bergman’s Nazi sympathies as a young adult. The actor was speaking at the Karlovy Vary film festival in the Czech Republic, where he was promoting Joachim Trier’s film Sentimental Value, inspired by the late Swedish director. Skarsgård expressed his personal dislike of Bergman, with whom he worked on a 1986 stage …
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