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  Wild Strawberries (movie) -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
"The Wild Strawberry Patch") is a 1957 (Photographic material consisting of a base of celluloid covered with a photographic emulsion; used to make negatives or transparencies) film written and directed by (Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918)) Ingmar Bergman.
Woody Allen is a well-known fan of Bergman's films and many consider Deconstructing Harry as his personal (Respectful deference) homage to Wild Strawberries.
Ingmar Bergman wrote the (A script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets) screenplay for Wild Strawberries while he was in (A health facility where patients receive treatment) hospital.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/wild_strawberries_(movie).htm   (310 words)

  
 Strawberry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The strawberry (Fragaria) is a genus of plants in the family Rosaceae, and the fruit of these plants.
The strawberry is an accessory fruit; that is, the fleshy part is derived not from the ovaries (which are the "seeds", actually achenes) but from the peg at the bottom of the hypanthium that held the ovaries.
In the strawberry, the floral axis, instead of being concave, swells out into a fleshy, dome-shaped or flattened mass in which the carpels or true fruits, commonly called pips or seeds, are more or less embedded but never wholly concealed.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strawberry   (724 words)

  
 Strawberries-- ID, annotations
Wild Strawberries have many varieties that fit their environment, but their general botannical name is always Fragaria.
Wild strawberries are smaller than the ones you buy in the supermarket.
Wild strawberries can be cultivated in gardens (if the soil and sun are righrt for them) and are sold in classy food stores in major cities for $25/lb.
www.kstrom.net /isk/food/k_straw.html   (675 words)

  
 Strawberries
Wild strawberries abounded in ancient Rome and are mentioned in the writings of Virgil, Ovid, and Pliny the Elder.
Wild strawberries are small and tend to set fruit only once during a season, that of summer, usually during the month of June.
Strawberries are the only known fruit to have their seeds on the outside, with an average of 200 seeds per fruit.
www.inmamaskitchen.com /FOOD_IS_ART/strawart.html   (2131 words)

  
 Strawberries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The wild strawberry (tall strawberry, blue-leaf strawberry) is far removed from the cultivated types grown today, which date back only to the 17th century.
Wild strawberries are indigenous to both the Old and New Worlds and are among the most delicious of all berries.
The smallest wild strawberries are the Hautbois varieties, whose tiny red fruits have a strong flavour.
www.innvista.com /health/foods/fruits/strawber.htm   (708 words)

  
 Wild Strawberries (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wild Strawberry Patch) is a 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.
The Seventh Seal, also considered one of Bergman's best films by many film critics/scholars, was also released in 1957, making it a year of prodigious output for Mr.
Ingmar Bergman wrote the screenplay for Wild Strawberries while he was in hospital.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wild_Strawberries_(movie)   (244 words)

  
 WILD STRAWBERRIES
Wild Strawberries is constructed around dream sequences (notably the nightmare at the beginning) and flashbacks and is, in addition to a voyage through modern Sweden, a voyage through time, the past, and the unconscious.
An old man approaching death (this was the last role of the great Victor Sjöström) takes stock of his life and its failings and is confronted by those who loved him, admired him for his contribution to science, and those who detested him as an inhuman, self-centred idiot.
Sara, in the present, brings him back to the human simplicity of his youth and the time of wild strawberries and gives him a new sense of serenity.
film.society.tripod.com /nzffs/ber-wild-strawberries.htm   (975 words)

  
 Strawberries - joyofbaking.com
The small, sweet, deep-red wild strawberry (fraise des bois) is difficult to pick, fragile and has a low yield so they are not cultivated commercially.
Strawberries range in size and can be as small as a grape to as large as a golf ball.
The strawberry plant is a member of the Rose family and the strawberry is from the genus Fragaria, which is the symbol of the Virgin Mary and of Summer.
www.joyofbaking.com /Strawberries.html   (710 words)

  
 Strawberries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
The strawberry is technically a "false" fruit because it grows from the base rather than from the ovary of a flower, and so is not a true berry.
Wild strawberries: Wild strawberries, or fraises des bois, are now cultivated to a small extent in California.
Strawberries are the most popular as well as the most plentiful berry: They are available year-round, with greatest abundance from April through July, when the California crops are at their peak.
www.wholehealthmd.com /refshelf/foods_view/1,1523,108,00.html   (761 words)

  
 Strawberries & More - History & Lore
Queen Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII had a strawberry shaped birthmark on her neck, which some claimed proved she was a witch.
The wide distribution of wild strawberries is largely from seeds sown by birds.
The strawberry, a member of the rose family, is unique in that it is the only fruit with seeds on the outside rather than the inside.
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu /strawberries/history.html   (465 words)

  
 Wild Strawberry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Indians ate wild Strawberries for colds even before vitamin C was known.
Juice from the wild Strawberry was mixed with water and used to bathe reddened eyes.
Wild Strawberries were mashed into a paste to remove tartar and clean teeth and was also used for toothaches.
www.fs.fed.us /ipnf/eco/yourforest/edibleplants/strawberry.html   (230 words)

  
 The Criterion Collection: Wild Strawberries
Traveling to receive an honorary degree, Professor Isak Borg (masterfully played by the veteran Swedish director Victor Sjöström), is forced to face his past, come to terms with his faults, and accept the inevitability of his approaching death.
Through flashbacks and fantasies, dreams and nightmares, Wild Strawberries captures a startling voyage of self-discovery and renewed belief in mankind.
Wild Strawberries is presented in its original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.
www.criterionco.com /asp/release.asp?id=139   (143 words)

  
 Vegetarians in Paradise/ Strawberry History/Strawberry Nutrition/ Strawberry Folklore/Strawberry Recipe
Strawberry plants are members of the Rosaceae family also known as the rose family, while all strawberries belong to the Fragaria virginia or Fragaria chiloensis genus.
The spring offerings of little baskets filled with wild strawberries are tied to the horns of their cattle to wait for the berry-loving elves to enjoy the berries and offer their good spirits to their hosts.
Strawberries just happen to be in season during the world-famous Wimbledon Tennis Matches, a time when tennis fanciers nibble on the berries as a snack while viewing the games.
www.vegparadise.com /highestperch45.html   (4141 words)

  
 Wild (About!) Strawberries
HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Evidence that Wild Strawberry was a part of the basic diet of Neolithic Europeans has been found in excavations of the lake villages throughout Western England and Switzerland.
However, it wasn’t until the 18th century that Strawberry was recorded for use as a medicinal in the treatment of gout by the botanist Linnaeus.
Strawberries were often carved into altars of the period in churches and cathedrals.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/herbalism/35776   (453 words)

  
 Wings Of Desire - Cinema: Ingmar Bergman and "Wild Strawberries"
Wild Strawberries is an "astonishing road movie in search for lost time, a dramatic fairy tale about loneliness, oscillating amongst oneiric expressionism (the starting nightmare of the coffin, the one of the examination) and the daily naturalism".
I imagine that one of the most impelling forces behind Wild Strawberries could be found in that situation.
The driving force in Wild Strawberries is therefore a desperate attempt to justify myself to mythologically oversized parents who have turned away.
www.geocities.com /SunsetStrip/Venue/3825/wildstrawberries.html   (2335 words)

  
 Movie Database - [TV Guide Online]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
En route, they stop at Isak's childhood house, where he recalls his family in the days of his youth (although he is unseen by the characters and not present in the flashback).
WILD STRAWBERRIES is viewed by many as Bergman's greatest achievement.
Its most striking segment, which perhaps best illustrates Bergman's technique, is a dream sequence in which Isak walks through a desolate city, is approached by a faceless man, sees a clock without hands, and watches a funeral wagon crash and leave a coffin in the middle of the street.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/showmovie.asp?MI=26541   (307 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Quiver: Music   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Wild Strawberries have always produced a magical sound that resounds in my heart and mind so often that I am brought to listen to their music at quite regular intervals.
QUIVER is Wild Strawberries, a Canadian band, their first album since 1996's HEROINE which propelled the hits Heroine and I Don't Want To Think About It.
Give Wild Strawberries a try, they are in a way like Bjork in some ways, also very Portishead like, but they are original in their own sense, there is no one else like them.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000005DCG?v=glance   (961 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Ingmar Bergman: Wild Strawberries
The film I constantly go back to, however, is Wild Strawberries (1957), which, while scarcely a bag of laughs, has a compassionate view of life that best illustrates the more optimistic side of Bergman's puzzled humanity.
The other often neglected aspect of Wild Strawberries is that most of it was shot deep in the Swedish countryside so that its characters pass through a natural world that seems at odds with their own impermanence but whose beauty also seems somehow to instruct them.
If the theme of Wild Strawberries is how life can become atrophied and sterile - often repeated from generation to generation - Bergman's working out of his argument is extraordinarily detailed, since almost all those in the film to whom this applies have no idea what is happening to them.
film.guardian.co.uk /Century_Of_Films/Story/0,4135,56897,00.html   (689 words)

  
 botanical.com - A Modern Herbal | Strawberry - Herb Profile and Information
1629 is the date assigned to the introduction of the Scarlet Strawberry from Virginia, and the earliest mention of the Strawberry in English writings is in a Saxon plant list of the tenth century, and in 1265 the 'Straberie' is mentioned in the household roll of the Countess of Leicester.
The common idea that the word Strawberry is derived from the habit of placing straw under the cultivated plants when the berries are ripening is quite erroneous.
For a badly sunburnt face it is recommended to rub the juice well into the skin, to leave it on for half an hour, and then wash off with warm water to which a few drops of simple tincture of benzoin have been added; no soap should be used.
www.botanical.com /botanical/mgmh/s/strawb95.html   (655 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Wild Strawberries at Epinions.com
The Swedish name for Wild Strawberries, “Smultronstallet”, translates more precisely as “strawberry field patch” – a Swedish colloquialism meaning a place or a time in one’s life which is fondly remembered and frequently revisited nostalgically in memory.
Isak’s trance is interrupted by a cute, vivacious, blond teenage girl, who spots him in the wild strawberry patch.
Wild Strawberries has a running time of 91 minutes and is in Swedish with English subtitles.
www.epinions.com /content_133594058372   (3212 words)

  
 wild-strawberries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Sjostrom is the star of this film, possibly the director's finest work, as an elderly professor taking stock of his life as he travels by car to be presented with an honorary degree.
From The Movie Guide: "WILD STRAWBERRIES is viewed by many as Bergman's greatest achievement.
Its most striking segment, which perhaps best illustrates Bergman's technique, is a dream sequence in which Isak [Sjostrom] walks through a desolate city, is approached by a faceless man, sees a clock without hands, and watches a funeral wagon crash and leave a coffin in the middle of the street.
yorty.sonoma.edu /filmfrog/reviews/w/wild-strawberries.html   (198 words)

  
 ToxicUniverse.com - Ingmar Bergman - 1957 - Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) Movies Review
The first place that Borg stops at is his childhood summer home where grow the wild strawberries that symbolize the brief days of summer in Sweden, a beautiful time of year much yearned for.
The strawberries trigger Borg’s memory, and we accompany him (like the final act in Our Town) into his past to meet first love Sara (also played by Bibi Andersson) and other significant figures—curiously, however, his parents are missing from the first visit.
Wild Strawberries (Smultronstället) is his last, and arguably best, screen performance.
www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10002511   (1356 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Wild Strawberries [1957]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Made in 1957, Wild Strawberries finds the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman at the height of his powers.
Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman's 1957 follow-up to the The Seventh Seal, is a "journey" movie.
Wild Strawberries is so overpoweringly rich and ruminative a film, however, that what should be a major flaw is reduced to a barely visible crack.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00005V4WT   (1128 words)

  
 Dave's Nature Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Strawberries ripen in early June, so when we they’re ready we’re half way to Christmas.
That may sound like a strange way to keep time, but Christmas is a time of special joy, and wild strawberries are a real treat to the palate.
For those of you who only know strawberries as those huge, supermarket fruits as big as plums, the wild variety would hardly catch your attention.
www.goshen.edu /merrylea/jun99/berry.htm   (407 words)

  
 The DVD Journal | Reviews : Wild Strawberries: The Criterion Collection
Tipping favor towards Wild Strawberries, Bergman's playful, insightful humor is also given a run out, and the director also indulges in a modicum of sentimentality, adding accessibility where he usually opts for intellectual obscurity.
But for all of its great moments and intentions, Wild Strawberries is nevertheless — like its protagonist — too cold for too long.
Criterion's new digital transfer of Wild Strawberries is gorgeous in its original full-frame aspect ratio (1.33:1), and the Dolby Digital 1.0 audio track (in Swedish) is accompanied by newly translated digital English subtitles.
www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/w/wildstrawberries_cc.shtml   (551 words)

  
 Wild Strawberry
Stuff yourself with wild strawberries, collect them to use on cereal, in pancakes, oatmeal, fruit salad, sauces, or other desserts.
Strawberries grow where there’s lots of sun: in meadows, fields, on moist ground, along the edge of woods, and on hillsides.
Bavarian peasants tied baskets of strawberries to their cattle’s horns so elves could enjoy the fruit at night, and return the favor by magically using their magic to make the peasants prosperous.
www.econetwork.net /~wildmansteve/Plants.Folder/Strawberry.html   (884 words)

  
 [minstrels] Wild Strawberries -- Robert Graves
Strawberries that in gardens grow Are plump and juicy fine, But sweeter far as wise men know Spring from the woodland vine.
No need for bowl or silver spoon, Sugar or spice or cream, Has the wild berry plucked in June Beside the trickling stream.
One such to melt at the tongue's root, Confounding taste with scent, Beats a full peck of garden fruit: Which points my argument.
www.cs.rice.edu /~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1031.html   (267 words)

  
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Wild Berries Press, based in New Orleans, was effected by Hurricane Katrina.
We will be printing more copies of Wild Strawberries issue three and sending them out to contributors and subscribers who have not received them yet.
Thank you for your patience and support, and for your interest in Wild Strawberries.
wildstrawberries.org   (309 words)

  
 Shows -- Bergman, Wild Strawberries On Stage
Set in present-time Sweden, Wild Strawberries depicts one day in the life of a 73-year-old professor (Isak Borg), who is about to receive a jubilee degree at the University of Lund.
She tells him her marital problems: she is pregnant and does not want to abide by Evald's wish to abort the child.
Her flashback encounter with Evald is interrupted by the return of Sara and her boyfriends, who present wild flowers to Isak.
shows.vtheatre.net /bergman.html   (1109 words)

  
 Strawberries & More - Nutrition
The Romans prized wild strawberries for their medicinal properties.
Ounce for ounce, strawberries have more Vitamin C than citrus fruit.
According to the American Cancer Society, foods rich in Vitamin C may lower the risk of cancers of the gastrointestinal tract.
www.urbanext.uiuc.edu /strawberries/nutrition.html   (83 words)

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