Weekend Movie Forecast: Star Trek Or...Oh, Just See Star Trek

On Saturday, BAMcinématek screens After the Rehearsal, Ingmar Bergman's made-for-TV movie about a theater director's emotional post-rehearsal encounter with the star of August Strindberg's Dream Play. Reviewing it when it was released here in 1984, the Times's Vincent Canby wrote, "Though After the Rehearsal runs a scant 72 minutes, it's as much a survey of the human condition as Strindberg's play, even if that condition is seen exclusively from Mr. Bergman's severely particular point of view. That is, the vantage point of an artist, nearing the end of a long and very successful career, for whom his art - the theater and his work in it - is life, and everything else has the effect of illusion... Although it's a very different kind of film, After the Rehearsal is as passionate, knowledgeable and funny about the stage as Francois Truffaut's Day for Night is about movies."