released 1/26/2024

In the wake of the announcement of this year’s Oscar nominees, we retrieve two interviews about film and moral depth. First, from 1995, film critic Kathleen Murphy remembers how — when they were released — the early films of Ingmar Bergman held the promise of transcendent discovery. Then, from 2002, Mark C. Henrie talks about how director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco) ironized the ironists in an effort to recovery moral and metaphysical losses.

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