"Bergman is everything, " Mr. von Sydow said, struggling to define the master and his impact.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
The honour could alternatively go to supporting actor nominee von Sydow, who is also 82.
Branagh's challengers are Jonah Hill (Moneyball), Nick Nolte (Warrior), Max von Sydow (Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close).
In it, Mr. von Sydow plays a hard-working Swedish emigrant attempting to improve the life of his young son.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
If that's a regret, it's one of the few Mr. von Sydow acknowledges.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
Since hitting his stride in the late 1950s, Mr. von Sydow has never wanted for work, whether in Europe or Hollywood.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
Often as not Mr. von Sydow has been asked to play villains.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
In fact, it was Mr. von Sydow who insisted that his character remain mute throughout the picture as The Renter does in the novel that inspired the movie.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
Even a sinewy supporting cast, including William Hurt, Max von Sydow, and Mark Strong, cannot banish the question: when the fun drains out of a legend like Robin Hood, what remains?
"After having played Jesus" in "The Greatest Story Ever Told" (1965) "and doing a number of Bergman films, people began to look at me as someone very serious and religious, and even a bit philosophical, " Mr. von Sydow said.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
Two classical musicians, Jan and Eva Rosenberg (Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann), have abandoned their careers to live in a stone house on a remote island, in rural, romantic refuge from a military conflict on the mainland.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
Regardless of whether Mr. von Sydow wins an Oscar, he will no doubt remain best known to serious movie fans as one of the sturdiest pillars in the stock company of actors assembled for stage and screen by the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
Despite his lasting association with the director, Mr. von Sydow's one previous Oscar nomination was not for a role in a Bergman picture but rather for another Swedish-language part, that of Lassefar in Bille August's "Pelle the Conqueror" (1987), which won an Academy Award for best foreign film as well as the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
WSJ: Max von Sydow | His Silence May Be Golden | Cultural Conversation by David Mermelstein
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