Rental fee: $15Discounted fee for BAMPFA members: $12Members: to receive your discount, you must log in to Eventive with the same email address you use to receive BAMPFA member communications. A carriage bumps along a wooded path. Inside is a magician, Vogler (Max von Sydow), and his entourage, including his young assistant who in his better moments is a she, the magician’s wife (Ingrid Thulin); and an ancient auntie who has a sideline in love potions and, we suspect, eye of newt. They are a down-at-the-heels lot, curious about the devil out in the woods and about death, which joins them in their carriage. They are headed for a politically fraught performance, for the mute Vogler is mocked, even as he is sought, for his “animal magnetism.” And no one does animal magnetism better than von Sydow. We see hints of&nbsp;Persona&nbsp;(silence as the last refuge of the artist),&nbsp;Fanny and Alexander&nbsp;(family theatrics as its own refuge), and&nbsp;Scenes from a Marriage&nbsp;(in fact, two). But with its fairytale landscape, Expressionist sets, and old-dark-lab sci-fi,&nbsp;The Magician&nbsp;asks to be taken on its own terms. Max the mesmerist and Bergman the magician, each with his “apparatus,” effect the willing suspension of belief. —Judy Bloch

The Magician

With Max von Sydow as a nineteenth-century mesmerist, “Bergman's chilling exploration of charlatanism is in fact one of his most genuinely enjoyable films . . . much of [it] devoted to wittily ironic sideswipes at bourgeois hypocrisy” (TIME OUT).

Available March 12–May 10. A recording of a live lecture given by UC Berkeley Professor Linda H. Rugg.

Linda H. Rugg on “Max von Sydow’s Biography and Career with Ingmar Bergman”

Available March 12–May 10. A recording of a live lecture given by UC Berkeley Professor Linda H. Rugg.

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