The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier

'Flute' is Bergman Cedar Falls series finale

CEDAR FALLS — The Hearst Center for the Arts will conclude its series of films directed by Ingmar Bergman with “The Magic Flute” on Tuesday. The G-rated 1975 film is in Swedish with subtitles. It will ...
San Diego Union-Tribune

‘The Magic Flute’ is enjoyable, even if it doesn’t always hit the high notes

If viewers can focus on its engaging young cast, vivid appearances by several international opera stars and well-executed melding of reality and fantasy, “The Magic Flute,” the latest film adaptation ...
The New York Times

Ingmar Bergman

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 ...
Los Angeles Times

Kenneth Branagh’s ‘The Magic Flute’ to screen stateside

After a trip to Amsterdam in the summer of 2008, Los Angeles Times music critic Mark Swed brought back a curious souvenir: a three-disc Dutch edition of Kenneth Branagh’s “The Magic Flute,” which he’d ...
Yahoo

Review: 'The Magic Flute' is enjoyable, even if it doesn't always hit the high notes

If viewers can focus on its engaging young cast, vivid appearances by several international opera stars and well-executed melding of reality and fantasy, “The Magic Flute,” the latest film adaptation ...
The New York Times

Ingmar Bergman

The history of European directors “going Hollywood” and making the leap to English-language filmmaking is long and uneven. By A.J. Goldmann A new opera by Mikael Karlsson and Royce Vavrek, directed by ...