Oct 16, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min · 11 segments
We review The Magician (1958) on movie podcast The Collector's Cut. The Magician is directed Ingmar Bergman and stars Max von Sydow, Ingrid Thulin, Gunnar Björnstrand, Bibi Andersson patreon…
We did a vote for this one-
Mm
...
in fact.
Uh, there was a few options up.
We had the next in kinda the, what's considered kind of a loose trilogy, uh, which Virgin Spring was the start of.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, it was in that vote.
That did not win, however, though, so we'll come back to that at a later date.
Yes
... a couple years before Virgin Spring, just to get the timeline of, uh, Bergman's career between what we've done-
Mm-hmm
... sort of lined up.
And it's actually almost kind of a shame that we didn't do this around the same time we were doing both Prestige and The Illusionist, because it's kind of-
I know
... an interesting third, like, you know, entry in that pantheon of magician movies.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, it, it, it's very different from those two.
It does its own things.
But you can definitely do some parallels, probably with The Illusionist out of the two more than anything.
Mm.
Uh, but-
I mean, I will make those parallels.
We did a vote for this one-
Mm
...
in fact.
Uh, there was a few options up.
We had the next in kinda the, what's considered kind of a loose trilogy, uh, which Virgin Spring was the start of.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, it was in that vote.
That did not win, however, though, so we'll come back to that at a later date.
Yes
... a couple years before Virgin Spring, just to get the timeline of, uh, Bergman's career between what we've done-
Mm-hmm
... sort of lined up.
And it's actually almost kind of a shame that we didn't do this around the same time we were doing both Prestige and The Illusionist, because it's kind of-
I know
... an interesting third, like, you know, entry in that pantheon of magician movies.
Mm-hmm.
Uh, it, it, it's very different from those two.
It does its own things.
But you can definitely do some parallels, probably with The Illusionist out of the two more than anything.
Mm.
Uh, but-
I mean, I will make those parallels.
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