DVR Alert! Thursday morning's Turner Classic Movies schedule features three of my all-time favorites: Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' & 'The Virgin Spring,' and Lasse Hallström's 'My Life as a Dog', all from Svensk Filmindustri (SF)

Robin Quivers YouTube Channel video: Ang Lee on The Virgin Spring. Uploaded August 25, 2012. http://youtu.be/GmFGB3hMluk

DVR Alert! Thursday morning's Turner Classic Movies schedule features three of my all-time favorites: Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' & 'The Virgin Spring,' and Lasse Hallström's 'My Life as a Dog', all from Svensk Film Industri (SFI)

Reminiscing on a life that could have been and seeing the uneasy co-existence of good and evil in our hearts, Bergman-style; Youthful lessons learned that are sad and knowing, funny and absolutely amazing.
All on DirecTV Channel 256

7:45 a.m. Wild Strawberries (1957)

9:30 a.m. The Virgin Spring (1960)

(11:01 a.m. short The Battle Of Gettysburg (1956)

11:30 a.m. My Life As A Dog (1987)

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http://svenskfilmindustri.com/ 

Two views of the entertainment world of Christmas 1957: Pre-Christmas shopping and American comedy as seen thru the eyes of Jack Benny, and Ingmar Bergman's masterful 'Wild Strawberries' opens in Sweden the day after Christmas and becomes a classic from Day One

MiscVideos78rpm YouTube Channel video: The Jack Benny Program - Christmas Shopping (Original air date: December 15, 1957). 

Uploaded December 23, 2012. http://youtu.be/u17Xo0dqJ34

And on December 26th, 1957, Ingmar Bergman's classic film and screenplay of remembrance, "Wild Strawberries" -Smultronställe- officially opened in Sweden, the same year that he had directed his first film, the classic, "The Seventh Seal." 

Both are among my all-time favorite films, and in the case of Wild Strawberries, I've probably seen it -conservatively- over 20 times, mostly on Turner Classic Movies/TCM, and it's a film I always gets something new out of, and am always trying to persuade people to see for the first time.
Starring Victor Sjostrom, and a then-22-year old Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin and Gunnar Björnstrand. 

Wild Strawberries, 1957, Directed by Ingmar Bergman (Opening scene)
Rafael Lasevitz YouTube Channel, Uploaded April 6, 2015
https://youtu.be/NeJQXA6CCuA

A better version of this amazing scene and other clips from the film are at 

https://www.tcm.com/video/1196578/wild-strawberries-1957-movie-clip-my-name-is-isak-borg

MiscVideos78rpm YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/MiscVideos78rpm