The fleeting Nordic summer, a respite from the darkness of interminable winter, is “the loveliest time of the year,” the Swedish author Selma Lagerlof wrote, with some understatement, in “The Story of ...

Here are a dozen Ingmar Bergman films that deserve inclusion in any library. Summer With Monika (1953) The director's rapt exaltation of the fleeting joys of a Scandinavian summer. Two bored young ...

With his debut feature, “Armand,” Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel wants to step out of his revered grandfather’s shadow. (Though the movie still contains a secret tribute.) By Carlos Aguilar The history of ...