FOC Gerald Peary landed quite a sweet gig, which he details in a recent piece in the Boston Globe. Warning: Diacritical marks a-go-go ahead.
...I was one of eight international journalists invited by the Swedish Institute to not only participate in Bergman Week, which promised screenings, lectures, and special guests, but to venture where few outsiders went before. In addition to seeing where on the island Bergman shot his famous films, we were the first press allowed to watch movies in Bergman’s private theater, and to tour Bergman’s house.
Our initiation was a conversation with Liv Ullmann, star of four key Bergman features made on Fårö, starting with her dazzling film debut in “Persona.’’ For some years, she was married to Bergman, and, for some months each year, they resided in Bergman’s Fårö house. She had returned there this spring for the first time since his funeral, because their once-shared home, thanks to the Bergman Estate Foundation, was opened to selected guests.
Read the rest here.
Southerners can catch up with Gerry in much warmer climes when he screens his doc For the Love of Movies at the Nickelodeon in Columbia, SC, July 25 -- the same weekend as his high school reunion around the corner at Dreher High School.
