Ingmar Bergman's last wish will be fulfilled when the remains of his fifth and final wife are transferred to his grave on the Baltic Sea island of Fårö. Read the AP report (25 October).

Read Geoffrey Macnab's article in The Independent on the American studios' interest in Bergman at the height of his arthouse fame in the 1950s and 1960s.

The Swedish Post will issue two new stamps honouring Bergman in January 2008. One will feature Bergman directing a scene from Fanny and Alexander, while the other will be a portrait of Bergman from 1998. Read the AFP report.

Viking Films presents an exclusive Bergman interview available for free download. Read the press release here.

The University Press of Mississippi has published Ingmar Bergman: Interviews, ed. Raphael Shargel (July 2007), while from MIT Press comes Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher by Irving Singer (October 2007), and Wallflower Press offers Ingmar Bergman Revisited by Maaret Koskinen (November 2007).

The Swedish Film Institute in Stockholm celebrates Bergman on 6-7 October 2007. Twenty of Bergman's films and television shows will be screened, while Harriet Andersson, Käbi Laretei and Gunnar Fischer will discuss their work with Bergman. Read the Variety report.

Max von Sydow will attend the Toronto International Film Festival (6-15 September), where he presents The Virgin Spring in the "Dialogues" programme, in tribute to Bergman [read the transcript here]. Von Sydow also appears in two new films at the festival, Emotional Arithmetic (Paolo Barzman, Canada) and Le Scaphandre et le papillon (Julian Schnabel, France).

On 13 August, Tartan releases Sawdust and Tinsel and The Devil's Eye on DVD for the first time in the UK. The Seventh Seal 50th Anniversary Digitally Remastered Edition will be released on DVD and Blu-Ray on 24 September. Coming soon: The Phantom Carriage, directed by Bergman's great mentor and actor, Victor Sjöström (Wild Strawberries).

Celebrating its 50th anniversary, The Seventh Seal (cert PG) has been re-released in a beautifully restored print, beginning 20 July. Check Tartan Films' official site for more information, including a trailer, images, and wallpapers.

At this year's Bergman Week, Bibi Andersson discusses her work with Bergman while Kenneth Branagh presents his version of The Magic Flute. The festival, held on Fårö Island, runs 26 June-1 July 2007. Branagh also introduces a screening of his favourite Bergman movie, Fanny and Alexander. Read the Deutsche Presse-Agentur report.

On 20 June 2007, it was announced that Bergman's archives have been included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register. The UNESCO programme was set up in 1997 to preserve valuable archive holdings and library collections. The Bergman archives include hand and type-written original manuscripts, drafts, notebooks, production papers, photographs and behind-the-scenes footage from the shooting of his films, and private and professional correspondence. Read the Deutsche Presse-Agentur report.

The 7th annual FILCA International Film Festival in Trivandrum, India (4-10 May 2007) will include a Bergman retrospective. The films to be screened are: Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, The Rite, Brink of Life and The Silence. Read the New Indian Express article.

The Charles Theatre in Baltimore runs a 13-film, 13-week Bergman retrospective from 3 February to 3 May 2007. The schedule is available here.

At the Guldbaggegalan Swedish film awards ceremony, actress Angela Kovács was presented the Ingmar Bergman Award for "her great ability to give life to police commanders as well as Lars Norén characters or Henrik Ibsen figures, and not least for her unmistakable joy of acting." (22 January 2007)

The Museum of Modern Art in New York City presents three films photographed by Sven Nykvist, including The Silence. (12-14 January 2007)