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On July 14, 1918 in Uppsala, Sweden, Ingmar Bergman was born, and a quarter-century later, he began to bring his cinematic voice to the world. A century after his brith, with an astounding body of work like few other directors and an influence that reverberates through the past many decades of filmmaking, his filmography is being celebrated like never before.

Starting this February at NYC’s Film Forum and then expanding throughout the nation “the largest jubilee of a single filmmaker” will be underway in a massive, 47-film retrospective. Featuring 35 new restorations, including The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Scenes from a Marriage, Fanny and Alexander, and many, many more, Janus Films has now debuted a beautiful trailer alongside the full line-up of films.

The Ingmar Bergman retrospective begins on February 7 at NYC’s Film Forum and then will expand to the following cities this spring:

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Wa

Detroit Film Theatre,...

The Netherlands, Denmark and Finland have missed out on a place in Saturday's Eurovision Song Contest final.

Along with Macedonia, Moldova and Belarus, the six countries failed to qualify during tonight's (May 19) first semi-final in Vienna, Austria.

Here is what Twitter thought about the return of Conchita Wurst at Eurovision semi-final 1

Eurovision Song Contest 2015: Watch the 10 performances which qualified for the final

The show, broadcast live on BBC Three, opened with 2014 winner Conchita Wurst performing winning song 'Rise Like A Phoenix'.

The UK was not able to vote in tonight's semi-final, with Australia, Austria, France and Spain providing the scores.

The ten countries to qualify were:

Albania - Elhaida Dani - 'I'm Alive'

Armenia - Genealogy - 'Face The Fear'

Belgium - Loïc Nottet - 'Rhythm Inside'

Estonia - Elina Born & Stig Rästa - 'Goodbye to Yesterday'

Georgia - Nina Sublatti - 'Warrior'

Greece - Maria Elena Kyriakou -...

If the title of Jannicke Systad Jacobsen‘s Turn Me On, Dammit! has you expecting a raunchy comedy of flamboyant zest, it may not hurt to dial back your expectations a bit. We do get no less than two up-close-and-personal looks at Artur’s (Matias Myren) Dirk Diggler, and I’d be lying if I said our introduction to 15-year-old Alma (Helene Bergsholm) — the outright image of her exploring her pants under the tutelage of a phone-sex worker named “Stig” — is something you see at the movies every day.

But Jacobsen, working from her own adaptation of an Olaug Nilssen novel, approaches the material with a Norwegian bite that keeps the on-screen stuff at a sleety distance. What we’re meant to laugh out loud at like rowdy, foolish goons in a Judd Apatow movie plays severely differently here, and that generally gives the film a more interesting aura than...