Posted on 08/04/2017 1:53:03 PM PDT by Borges
Woody Allen once lauded Ingmar Bergman as “probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera” – yet he is also the most misunderstood. Ten years after Bergman’s death, the received wisdom about his work continues to obscure his legacy, and discourages new audiences from discovering his achievements.
The obituaries a decade ago were predictably clichéd: Bergman’s films are ‘morbid’ and ‘pitiless’, ‘a long, dark night of the soul'. Yet the primary theme of Bergman’s work – the thread that links all his films together, across genres – is not death but the redemptive possibility of love. His bleakest visions relate not to mortality but to isolation and rejection; in particular, to unrequited love.
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John Ford. “The Searchers” stands up to anything Europe can offer.
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You want to get depressed, go see one of his films. Don’t go if you’re contemplating suicide or not; let friends know where you are.
I would probably think the greatest was Hitchcock.
The guy who made “Gone With The Wind” also had a bunch of good ones.
“John Ford. “The Searchers” stands up to anything Europe can offer.
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No argument from me.
What is that one of his taking place right after WW2? The German backgrounds are stunning including pictures of the Autobahn.
Then of course you have the Seventh Seal with a young Max Von Sydow.
Greatest parody of Bergman ever. It helps to have seen Wild Strawberries and the Seventh Seal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JEIQk4mZQ
Victor Fleming? He’s not really held up as any sort of all time great. He took over GWTW after another director was fired. And that director’s work was the better part of the film (the first hour or so).
There are references to The Searchers in everything from Lawrence of Arabia to The Godfather to Star Wars.
"The Holy Ghost was working through me on ... - Mel Gibson.
George Eastman?
Well, yeah, he had to have lived! Who is the greatest director who never lived? That is the question we otter be asking.
For as anti-American as George Lucas seems sometimes he was quite fond of John Ford.Go figure.
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I don’t care about “Great.”
Give me a Sergio Leone movie with an Ennio Morricone soundtrack.
John Ford was quite liberal. He became Republican in the last several years of his life.
Don’t know if it’s a parody of Bergman, per se, but when I think of Swedish movies, I always think of this.
Benny Hill - “Naked Lust in Sinful Sweden” (Little Bo Peep)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnkPhK7tmhw
Howard Hawkes directed probably the best Western ever: “Red River”.
When John Ford saw it he said to Hawks about John Wayne: “I didn’t know that big sonofabitch could act.”
John Ford, Frank Capra, John Houston, Howard Hawks
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