Ingmar Bergman’s films make up a huge chunk of the Criterion Collection. Disc 9 includes From the Life of Marionettes and Hour of the Wolf, neither title coming with any special features. Ingmar Bergman's Cinema (Criterion Collection), Blu-ray, Boxed Set, With Book, 4K Mastering, Special Edition, Drama, Foreign-Swedish, 715515221917 The strangest and most disturbing of the films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island of Faro, HOUR OF THE WOLF stars Max von Sydow as a haunted painter living in … Full of ghosts and shock-cuts, Hour of the Wolf (1968) is the closest Bergman ever came to making a flat-out horror film. Hour of the Wolf. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most babies are born. PICTURE. Ingmar Bergman: Part 5 (1968-76) Bergman100 (Letterboxd) 29. Like the dreams in Wild Strawberries (1957) and the introductory montage in Persona (1966), Hour of the Wolf is built from… Hour of the Wolf might just be the most wanted of Bergman’s films yet to be distributed by Criterion. "The Hour of the Wolf" is the hour between night and dawn. Review of the blu-ray for Hour of the Wolf from the Ingmar Bergman Criterion Boxset. Like From the Life of the Marionettes, Hour of the Wolf portrays the spiral into madness of its male protagonist, which cannot be halted by his wife’s compassion and generosity.The moody, secretive Johan, a successful painter going through a bad patch, and his good-hearted wife, Alma, have been spending the summer on a remote island. It is the hour when most people die. The hour of the wolf is also the hour when most babies are born. Directed by Ingmar Bergman • 1968 • Sweden The strangest and most disturbing of the films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island of Fårö, HOUR OF THE WOLF stars Max von Sydow as a haunted painter living in voluntary exile with his wife (Liv Ullmann). The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring and Wild Strawberries are all part of the release library, but not all of his best works are available yet. 2.8K likes. Janus Films is proud to present a touring retrospective spanning Abbas Kiarostami’s nearly five-decade career. ). The set also features 11 introductions and over five hours of interviews with the director himself, six making-of documentaries, a 248-page book, and much more. Hour of the Wolf 1968 // Sweden // Ingmar Bergman (Available on FilmStruck) Hour of the Wolf is by and large an allegory of disintegration, a psychological depiction of a man’s declination into insanity. Art Attack. Hour of the Wolf. Lance - Vocals Addy - Guitar/Vocals Hank - Guitar Pat - Bass Dustin - Drums The strangest and most disturbing of the films Ingmar Bergman shot on the island of Fårö, Hour of the Wolf stars Max von Sydow as a haunted painter living in voluntary exile with his wife (Liv Ullmann). According to Professor Birgitta Steene, the title is drawn from Swedish folklore, where the "hour of the wolf" refers to the period from 3 a.m. to 5 a.m., supposedly when the most deaths and births occur. The set also features 11 introductions and over five hours of interviews with the director himself, six making-of documentaries, a 248-page book, and much more.