BAM celebration of Ingrid Bergman centennial kicks off with theatrical presentation featuring Isabelle Rossellini and Jeremy Irons
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, BAMcinématek: BAM Rose Cinemas
30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St.
Tribute: Saturday, September 12, $35-$85, 8:00
Film festival: September 13-29
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Following hot on the heels of MoMA’s Centennial Celebration of Ingrid Bergman, honoring the one hundredth anniversary of the actress’s birth on August 29, BAM joins the party with two special programs. The festivities begin on September 12 with “The Ingrid Bergman Tribute,” a multimedia theatrical staging in the Howard Gilman Opera House created and written by Ludovica Damiani and Guido Torlonia in collaboration with Isabella Rossellini, one of Bergman’s three daughters. The presentation, directed by Torlonia (Handmade Cinema), will feature Rossellini and Jeremy Irons performing material based on interviews, unpublished letters, and Rossellini’s own memories and will also include home videos and unreleased film clips. Damiani has previously staged tributes to such cinema giants as Luchino Visconti and Federico Fellini. The one-night-only event will be followed by the film series “Ingrid Bergman at BAM,” a fourteen-movie, seventeen-day festival that includes some of the works shown at MoMA in addition to other classics and lesser-known fare. One of the greatest films ever made, Casablanca, starts things off on September 13; the festival also includes such gems as Anastasia, Notorious, Europa ’51, Gaslight, Spellbound, and Murder on the Orient Express as well as Gustaf Molander’s A Woman’s Face, Per Lindberg’s June Night, Vincente Minnelli’s A Matter of Time with Liza Minnelli and Charles Boyer, and Lewis Milestone’s Arch of Triumph with Boyer and Charles Laughton. Bergman, who was nominated for seven Oscars, winning three, while also capturing a Tony for Joan of Lorraine and two Emmys, for Startime and A Woman Called Golda, died of breast cancer on her sixty-seventh birthday in 1982.