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	Sven Nykvist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sven Nykvist (born 3 December 1922 in Moheda, Kronobergs län, Sweden) is a Swedish cinematographer known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman.
		Sven Nykvist, considered by many to be one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, entered the Swedish film industry at the age of 19.
		Nykvist would eventually become Bergman's full-time cinematographer and push the director's work in a new direction, away from the theatrical look of his older films.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sven_Nykvist (268 words)

	Sven Nykvist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The psychological concentration of the film is served by Nykvist's spare elegance: the clear, smooth fields of gray create the necessary abstraction without ever falsifying or banalizing reality.
		Nykvist's control of mood is so total that the most minimal light change has a palpable effect: Andersson bends down beside her patient's bed and the light from the radio she turns on seems to warm her face; night falls in successive waves over Ullmann's unblinking face.
		Skarsgård has said that Nykvist "can't really direct at all," and The Ox bears this out: the film's images are correct and elegant, its few ideas clearly understandable, but Nykvist seems afraid of the story's dramatic force and is content merely to hint at it.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/00/05/18/sven_nykvist.html (1021 words)

	The Ox - Stellan Skarsgard
		Amazingly, this was Nykvist's directorial debut at the age of 69, and OXEN is actually an intimate re-telling of a story told to him by his father.
		Nykvist was interested not in the emigrant families, however, but those who stayed behind and endured the ravages of famine.
		Sven Nykvist has been responsible for some of the most visually stunning films of the past 40 years."...
	www.stellanonline.com /oxen.html (829 words)

	SVEN NYKVIST (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Sven Nykvist is awarded with Golden Camera 300 for life achivement on the Bitola Festival as one of the greatest living Cameramen-Directors of Photography of the international film whose 100 works shall always project with their high artistic achievements in the anthological treasure-chest of the Seventh Art.
		Sven Nykvist could not do that, but the expression on his face was a proof of his joy.
		Sven Nykvist's son, is staying in Bitola and together with his team they are shooting parts from the documentary film about Sven Nykvist.
	www.unet.com.mk /manaki98/angliski/sven_nykvist.htm (146 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Light Keeps Me Company
		Cinematographer Sven Nykvist’s work with Ingmar Bergman is considered one of the key collaborations in modern cinema, and in Light Keeps Me Company, Nykvist (born 1922) gets his due and then some as an artist in his own right.
		Nykvist’s first job as cinematographer came in 1941, but it was 12 years later, with Sawdust and Tinsel, that he began the relationship with Bergman, an artistic coupling that would make him a legend in his field and, perhaps more importantly, give a raison d’etre to a life that desperately needed one.
		Nykvist is a difficult subject for analysis due to his extreme personal reticence, but the film manages to capture a wistfulness that borders on tragedy in a puzzling man whose relationship with Bergman and many of his other collaborators was tender during filming but nonexistent outside.
	brightlightsfilm.com /34/lightkeeps.html (609 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Sven Nykvist
		While Nykvist's name may be most familiar to trivia nuts, hardcore cineastes, and the actors and directors who actually make movies, one could hardly say that his work is obscure.
		That Nykvist, a reigning master of the visual image, should be taken out of his career owing to a deterioration of his use of words is a sadly ironic plot twist worthy of a Bergman masterpiece.
		We hear the words of Nykvist, recited by an unnamed actor, reflecting upon his life--he was the son of strict Christian missionaries who forbade the watching of movies--and telling a few colorful stories along the way.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/05.03.01/nykvist-0118.html (595 words)

	Sven Nykvist -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Nykvist studied photography, worked as an assistant cameraman, and spent a year at the Italian Cinecitta studios before joining the Swedish production company Sandrews in 1941.
		Sven Olof Joachim Palme was born on Jan. 30, 1927, in Stockholm, Sweden.
		Palme served as chairman of the Social Democratic party from 1969 and prime minister of Sweden from 1969 to 1976 and again from 1982 to 1986, when he was assassinated on February 28 by an unknown assailant in Stockholm.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9056580?tocId=9056580 (499 words)

	Sven Nykvist
		Sven Nykvist joined Sandrews studios as an assistant in 1941, his goal being to follow in the footsteps of the great Swedish cameramen, Julius Jaenzon, Goran Strindberg and Gunnar Fischer.
		Nykvist's first project with Bergman was SAWDUST AND TINSEL (1953)/GYCKLARNAS AFTON; he was assigned the difficult interior shots by his former teacher, director of photography Hilding Bladh, as a final test of his skill.
		Nykvist's work has clearly been influenced by the Swedish tradition of stark, psychologically meaningful landscape (ranging from claustrophobic forests to lonely, peaceful vistas) and minimalist shot composition (abundantly evident in his powerful close-ups, seen at perhaps their most stunning in Bergman's PERSONA, 1966).
	theoscarsite.com /whoswho5/nykvist_s.htm (754 words)

	In the Company of Light: Sven Nykvist
		Nykvist’s new economy of visual means gave these films greater facility to capture the spare landscapes under Nordic light and to probe the souls of Bergman’s characters.
		Nykvist would go on in the 1970s and 1980s to work with a no less stellar array of filmmakers, often collaborating on major projects at key moments in their careers: Louis Malle on his first American film, Andrei Tarkovsky with his final film, Woody Allen with his return to drama.
		A portrait of Sven Nykvist directed by his filmmaker son Carl-Gustaf, Light Keeps Me Company combines extracts from the remarkable oeuvre of the legendary Swedish cinematographer and interviews with an extraordinary array of film-world notables whose work has been touched by his brilliant visual style.
	www.harvardfilmarchive.org /calendars/00mayjun/sven.htm (1580 words)

	PRIVATE CONFESSIONS
		Nykvist, A.S.C., 2-time Oscar winner and with more than 100 films to his credit - is one of the world's foremost cinematographers.
		Nykvist has also worked with numerous other directors, who, in their various ways interpreted his special ability to create with light.
		Sven Nykvist made his directorial debut with THE OX (1991) which received an Oscar Nomination.
	www.unet.com.mk /manaki98/angliski/private.htm (596 words)

	Sven Nykvist chosen to receive the ASC Lifetime Achievement Award
		Sven Nykvist, ASC received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Cinematographers at their 10th annual ASC Outstanding Achievement Awards gala.
		Nykvist was preparing to shoot a film in Scandinavia when Kemper called, and he will shoot a film based on a new Bergman script in August.
		In 1952, Nykvist was the co-director, co-writer and co-cinematographer of Under the Southern Cross, a narrative film produced in the Belgian Congo, based on an experience his parents had with a witch doctor.
	www.theasc.com /awards/history/pr/10_sven_nykvist.htm (2293 words)

	Light Keeps Me Company on DVD - MovieWeb
		Sven Nykvist is one of the most respected cinematographers in the history of world cinema.
		Nykvist's Bergman films demonstrated a style based more in naturalistic lighting than the slick standard that was heavily influenced by Hollywood.
		Nykvist would go on to shoot films of that are among the most visually complex, subtle, and beautiful with many of the world's first rate directors including PRETTY BABY (Louis Malle), THE SACRIFICE (Andrei Tarkovsky), THE TENANT (Roman Polanski), and CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS (Woody Allen).
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?720229909891 (258 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > Light Keeps Me Company > Printer Friendly
		Sven Nykvist is one of the greatest cinematographers to ever prop himself behind the lens of a movie camera.
		Part of this may be because the documentary was made just as Sven had retired due to a rare form of aphasia, which has left him a little slow and without an ability to speak much.
		Like a Sven Nykvist movie it is shot with a lot of natural light in this case in and around his home.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/print.php?ID=3685 (773 words)

	MC Journal: the Journal of Academic Media Librarianship. Audiovisual Reviews.
		One of the narrators speaks for Sven Nykvist, as his voice, describing events in his life as Nykvist developed progressive aphasia in 1998 affecting his linguistic capacity and effectively ending his career as a cinematographer.
		Although Bergman and Nykvist never had a personal friendship outside of their working relationship, there was an intimate sense of parallel minds, feeling and thinking the same way in their film collaborations.
		The footage of Nykvist receiving numerous awards simply seems extraneous in this homage to a very reserved and modest man. As a documentary film, the problem of identifying speakers only once may cause confusion as to who is on screen as the film advances.
	wings.buffalo.edu /mcjreview/990126058.html (740 words)

	A Man of Vision
		It's really that simple, although the fact that the father is the famed Swedish cinematographer Sven Nykvist causes you to bring certain expectations to the viewing.
		Nykvist directed five films of his own, and did fine work for many directors besides Bergman as well - including Roman Polanski, Louis Malle, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Woody Allen.
		This is a loving portrait of a father by his son, so it probably shouldn't be treated as a definitive account of Nykvist's work and place in film history.
	www.cinescene.com /reviews/nykvist.html (485 words)

	Light Keeps Me Company - Stellan Skarsgard
		Cinematographer Sven Nykvist’s work with Ingmar Bergman is considered one of the key collaborations in modern cinema, and in Light Keeps Me Company, directed by his son Carl-Gustav Nykvist, we are treated to rare home movies, family photos, behind-the-scenes footage, excerpts from his films, and recollections from friends and co-workers.
		In 1987 Nykvist was the cinematographer for The Unbearable Lightness of Being, and then four years later, he wrote, directed and filmed The Ox.
		And with Sven, I feel that his capacity to take responsibility for relationships is somewhat diminished by all that.
	www.stellanonline.com /ljuset.html (450 words)

	Light Keeps me Company
		The film is directed by Sven Nykvist’s son, which may raise initial doubts about the film’s ability to remain objective about its subject.
		Quoting Nykvist, they “avoided one another out of shyness.”[1] It is also well documented that the working relationship between Nykvist and Tarkovsky got off to a strained start.
		Sven said the Russian school did things that way.” Meanwhile, in a written account Nykvist states: “Tarkovskij’s ideas of a take are different from those of most other directors.His compositions are unconventional.
	www.horschamp.qc.ca /new_offscreen/sven_nykvist.html (1318 words)

	Museum of the Moving Image (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In this theatrical version of a five-hour mini-series for Swedish television, Ullmann is impressive as an abandoned wife struggling with her husband's infidelities with a young woman.
		The film opens with the wife's confession of an affair with a young cleric, and is structured around her conversations with her husband, lover, and spiritual adviser—all of whom are priests.
		Against the backdrop of Sven Nykvist's lush images of the Norwegian landscape, Ullmann creates a moving portrait of a fourteenth-century heroine who marries the man she loves despite her father's demands for an arranged marriage.
	www.ammi.org /site/screenings/content/2001/ullmann.html (1240 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nykvist Sven
		MSN Encarta - Search Results - Nykvist Sven
		Nykvist, Sven (1922-), Swedish cinematographer and film director, long-time associate of Ingmar Bergman.
		Hedin, Sven Anders (1865-1952), Swedish explorer and geographer, born in Stockholm, and educated at the universities of Uppsala, Berlin, and Halle....
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Nykvist_Sven.html (98 words)

	VH1.com : Movies : Person : Sven Nykvist : Biography
		Swedish-born cinematographer Sven Nykvist is best known as the photographer of most of Ingmar Bergman's best known movies of the 1960s.
		However, it was not until seven years later, with The Virgin Spring, that Nykvist became Bergman's permanent cinematographer -- the two developed a close working relationship, with Nykvist capturing every visual nuance of Bergman's work like an extra set of the director's eyes.
		Nykvist won Academy Awards for his work on Cries and Whispers (1973) and Fanny and Alexander (1982).
	www.vh1.com /movies/person/92698/bio.jhtml (276 words)

	ICG News
		Cronenweth, Hall, Nykvist, Storaro, Wexler, Willis, and Zsigmond were in the front ranks of a new wave of filmmakers who transformed the art form beginning in the 1950s.
		Sven Nykvist was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1922.
		Nykvist photographed some 80 other motion pictures with other directors, including such memorable films as Agnes of God, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and The Unbearable Lightness of Being, which earned him another Oscar nomination.
	www.cameraguild.com /news/guild/guild_selects.htm (2331 words)

	Light Keeps Me Company
		Considered one of the foremost cinematographers in the history of film, Sven Nykvist is best known for his work with Ingmar Bergman, a collaboration that spanned three decades and produced some of the most important films of modern cinema.
		Sven Nykvist first worked with Ingmar Bergman on the 1953 film, Sawdust and Tinsel.
		Despite a tumultuous personal life that included the tragic suicide of his oldest son and a sweeping love affair with Mia Farrow, Sven Nykvist continued to work in his later years, directing a feature film and collaborating on projects with filmmakers such as Louis Malle, Andrei Tarkovsky, Roman Polanski and many others.
	www.frif.com /new2000/lig.html (410 words)

	LIGHT KEEPS ME COMPANY
		A winner of two Oscars and known for his alliance with Ingmar Berman, Sven Nykvist was a master of using natural, soft lighting to create the most amazing effects on film.
		The son of missionary parents, as children Sven and his siblings were left without their parents for stretches as long as four years while working in Africa.
		And though Sven’s father was strict with his children and believed that things like drinking and movies were sinful, Sven dropped out of college to take a job as a cameraman and discovered his calling.
	www.askewreviews.com /videos/light_keeps_me_company.htm (261 words)

	The Stranger - Film - Feature - Reverend Nykvist
		Poetry was what cinematographer Sven Nykvist excelled at.
		A towering figure of the modern cinema, perhaps best known for his extraordinary 30-year collaboration with Ingmar Bergman, Nykvist arguably qualifies as the world's greatest living cinematographer, even though aphasia, a brain disorder, halted his career last year at the ripe age of 77.
		More interestingly, the film describes the non-professional life of the great artist with the tender conviction of family, using a huge stockpile of photos and home movies to illustrate the private quotient of Nykvist's life--which included a failed marriage, the suicide of a son, and a host of other minor dramas.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=5770 (412 words)

	Ljuset håller mig sällskap (2000) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The film is based on Sven's memoirs with Sven himself as narrator...
		Like most documentaries, Carl Nykvist's film is also chalked full of interviews of prominent actors, crew members, directors as well as, family members.
		However, the story of Siddartha that is narrated throughout the documentary tends to interrupt the flow of the dominant narrative.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0151372 (345 words)

	Sven Nykvist -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1941, he became an (additional info and facts about assistant cameraman) assistant cameraman.
		Throughout the years, Nykvist has won the (additional info and facts about Academy Award for Best Cinematography) Academy Award for Best Cinematography for two of his movies, (additional info and facts about Cries and Whispers) Cries and Whispers (1973), and (additional info and facts about Fanny and Alexander) Fanny and Alexander (1982).
		He was also nominated for (additional info and facts about The Unbearable Lightness of Being) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988) and The Ox (1991), for (additional info and facts about Best Foreign Language Film) Best Foreign Language Film, which he directed.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sv/sven_nykvist.htm (580 words)

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