Sunday, March 6, 2016

Boarding School - Bergman's Magician

 EXETER STREET THEATER 
 Boston, 1960 
 Personal Stories 
Between Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and New York City, age 15
Photograph of theater from commons.wikimedia.org; poster of The Magician used according to 'fair use' standard
Text, editing, design & research by Rick Doble.


 Between 
 boarding school 
 and parents 
 -- between trains in Boston -- 
 for just a few hours 
 I am alone 
 and 
 free 


 I take 
 the underground 
 to a strange forbidding 
 theater 
 where I watch 
 the supernatural: 
 Ingmar Bergman's The Magician 
 in stark 
 black & white 

Poster inserted from this url: 
 used in accordance with the fair use doctrine:
low resolution, non-profit publication, no effect on the market for this film.


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