Rank/rate the films of Ingmar Bergman

1. Through a Glass Darkly
2. Wild Strawberries
3. Hour of the Wolf
4. A Ship Bound for India
5. The Passion of Anna
6. It Rains on Our Love
7. Winter Light
8. Scenes from a Marriage
9. Cries and Whispers
10. Shame
11. Summer with Monika
12. The Virgin Spring
13. Dreams
14. Fanny and Alexander
15. Persona
16. The Seventh Seal
17. Smiles of a Summer Night
18. Autumn Sonata
19. Brink of Life
20. Face to Face
21. The Silence
22. Sawdust and Tinsel
23. The Magic Flute

Fanny and Alexander is one of his most beautiful, an uncanny evocation of the time - I sometimes find the longer Bergman's too exhausting to sit through but I did put 2 in my top 10 - Scenes From a Marriage and Cries and Whispers (all those cancer pain shrieks - chilling stuff) and Fanny and Alexander is in the league with them I'd say.

Sometimes he made definitive films about a theme that is universal and he made it with so much detail and depth it's overwhelming. Like how Scenes From A Marriage is about how love almost imperceptibly deteriorates or in Fanny about the passing of happiness of their earlier life pre-stepfather. If you are even remotely inclined to relate to a Bergman character in one of those types of films you will be gutted because he will capture the happiness and descent so completely and nuanced that you feel it's specific to something only you and he could share.

Great stuff though the last few times I have watched it I've watched the longer TV version......I don't quite recall the shorter version now.

1. The Seventh Seal
2. Wild Strawberries
3. Persona
4. Fanny and Alexander
5. The Virgin Spring
6. Winter Light
7. Cries and Whispers
8. Autumn Sonata

Great director. Definitely among my favorites.

1. The Seventh Seal - 10/10
2. Wild Strawberries - 9/10
3. Through A Glass Darkly - 8/10
4. Autumn Sonata - 8/10
5. Winter Light - 8/10
6. Shame - 8/10
7. Persona - 8/10
8. Hour Of The Wolf - 7/10
9. The Virgin Spring - 7/10
10. Summer With Monika - 7/10
11. Smiles Of A Summer Night - 7/10
12. It Rains On Our Love - 7/10
13. Cries & Whispers - 7/10
14. Face To Face - 7/10
15. The Silence - 4/10

God, here we go...:

1. Persona, 1966
2. The Seventh Seal, 1957
3. Winter Light, 1963
4. Autumn Sonata, 1978
5. The Virgin Spring, 1960
6. Through a Glass Darkly, 1961
7. Scenes from a Marriage, 1973
8. Wild Strawberries, 1957
9. Cries & Whispers, 1972
10. Hour of the Wolf, 1968
11. Fanny & Alexander, 1982
12. Saraband, 2003
13. The Passion of Anna, 1969
14. The Magician, 1958
15. Face to Face, 1976
16. The Silence, 1963

I realize I'm technically ranking Cries & Whispers in the bottom half of the list.

10
Persona
Cries and Whispers
Scenes from a Marriage
Smiles of a Summer Night
Through a Glass Darkly

9
The Seventh Seal
The Magician
The Virgin Spring

8
Summer with Monika
Dreams
Brink of Life

7
Autumn Sonata
Shame

6
Passion of Anna
Face to Face

5
It Rains on Our a Love
A Ship Bound for India
Crisis