Perhaps we need some summer escapism. Maybe we're sick of the air of doom and gloom that accompanies constant news reports on war, recession and unemployment. Or perhaps there's just something in the ...

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s Astoria Cinemas loop filed for bankruptcy on Monday, leaving SF Bio as the country’s sole exhib. Astoria has been fighting for survival since October when it applied for ...

Although American viewers only get the slightest sampling of Swedish films in any given year (other than Bergman’s final film, “Saraband,” U.S.-distributed releases from Sweden in the past five years ...

For most Americans, Swedish cinema from the late 1950s through the mid-1980s begins and ends with Ingmar Bergman. His revolutionary reorienting of film inward; his success at the Academy Awards, ...