Ingmar Bergman dead

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Perhaps not the most visual of film directors, but what an immense talent. The B&W photography in his early films is a real inspiration, and of course the chess scene is 7th Seal is kind of iconic (given the number of parodies). Consistently strong body of work right until the end...
 
Not a visual director? Are you kidding?

Watch Persona, Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers, Wild Strawberries, really, any of his films... the cinematography is breathtaking.
 
Gotta agree with Sputty, it's strange just the other day I was remembering My Summer With Monica and Fanny and Alexander and wondered if Bergman was still alive.
 
It happened this morning (local time) at his summer retreat at the island Fårö in the Baltic Sea (where Persona was filmed). He was 89, but it really feels like a large creative and cultural vacuum in Sweden now that he is gone.
Jacob
 
Sputty said:
Not a visual director? Are you kidding?

Watch Persona, Fanny and Alexander, Cries and Whispers, Wild Strawberries, really, any of his films... the cinematography is breathtaking.
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I guess in comparison to say Tarkovsky where its all visual. Bergman's exploration of the human condition was so strong that it kind of pushed the visuals onto the backburner for me. I agree, some spectacular stuff (I love his closeups and tight framing) but I spent more time "listening" to the actors. I guess also not being Swedish means you're spending a lot of time reading subs and you don't see the film in the same way...
 
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Rest in peace...

When, where, how did this happen?
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Sweden, today, cause of death not revealed. I think he was still living as a virtual recluse on the island where he filmed Persona. As we say over here, he had a good innings (89 years old).
 
Yeah, that's a good point. But subtitles would be a factor with Tarkovsky, too.

S'funny you mention him, though. Tarkovsky's my other favorite director. Had the privilege of seeing Stalker screened in a cinema recently - it was a mind-blowing experience. And they're screening Andrei Rublev next week. I can hardly wait.

I believe that Sven Nykvist, who was Bergman's go-to cinematographer, worked with Tarkovsky on The Sacrifice, as well.





Terao said:
I guess in comparison to say Tarkovsky where its all visual. Bergman's exploration of the human condition was so strong that it kind of pushed the visuals onto the backburner for me. I agree, some spectacular stuff (I love his closeups and tight framing) but I spent more time "listening" to the actors. I guess also not being Swedish means you're spending a lot of time reading subs and you don't see the film in the same way...
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A huge loss. One of the towering figures in all of cinema.

It is sometime difficult to believe that he wrote most or all of his own screenplays. Most people can't even manage one of the quality he produced and Bergman has at least 8 or 10 universally acknowledged masterpieces to his credit.

Coincidentally I saw the reissue of "The Seventh Seal' in the theater last week. Absolutely stunning film in every respect.

A sad day.


HL
 
Bergman and Kurosawa are my favorite directors. Now they are both gone. What brilliant cinematic treasures they have left behind. It's time for me to log in to Netflix and change my queue.
 
``Antonioni never really learned the trade,'' IMDb, the Internet movie database, quoted Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, who died yesterday, as saying. ``He never concentrated on single images, never realizing that film is a rhythmic flow of images.''
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Liv Ullmann said of him, he was "no Bob Hope" but was a lot funnier to live with than most people might imagine. Terry Gross interviewed Liv in '93, Bergman was one of the ones she probably would have killed for.
 
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