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The 'greatest film-maker who ever lived' (Bergman)
BBC ^ | 31 July 2017 | Benjamin Ramm

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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TOPICS: TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: hollywood; ingmarbergman
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1 posted on 08/04/2017 1:53:03 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

John Ford. “The Searchers” stands up to anything Europe can offer.

CC


2 posted on 08/04/2017 1:56:18 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Veni, vidi, Vomui- I came, I saw, I hurled.)
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To: Borges

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.


3 posted on 08/04/2017 1:56:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Borges

I would probably think the greatest was Hitchcock.

The guy who made “Gone With The Wind” also had a bunch of good ones.


4 posted on 08/04/2017 1:57:45 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: Celtic Conservative

“John Ford. “The Searchers” stands up to anything Europe can offer.
CC”

No argument from me.


5 posted on 08/04/2017 1:58:25 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Borges

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.


6 posted on 08/04/2017 1:59:14 PM PDT by headstamp 2 (Ignorance is reparable, stupid is forever)
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To: Borges

Greatest parody of Bergman ever. It helps to have seen Wild Strawberries and the Seventh Seal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3JEIQk4mZQ


7 posted on 08/04/2017 2:02:19 PM PDT by xp38
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To: yarddog

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).


8 posted on 08/04/2017 2:04:58 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Celtic Conservative

There are references to The Searchers in everything from Lawrence of Arabia to The Godfather to Star Wars.


9 posted on 08/04/2017 2:05:49 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges
Any film that Mel Gibson produced and direction. His best was The Passion of the Christ.

"The Holy Ghost was working through me on ... - Mel Gibson.

10 posted on 08/04/2017 2:08:24 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Borges

George Eastman?


11 posted on 08/04/2017 2:08:34 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Borges

Well, yeah, he had to have lived! Who is the greatest director who never lived? That is the question we otter be asking.


12 posted on 08/04/2017 2:09:00 PM PDT by InvisibleChurch (https://thepurginglutheran.wordpress.com)
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To: Borges
Good article about a great film-maker. I don't know if I could name "the greatest" film-maker, but Bergman is certainly a great one. I don't like all his films, but several of them are masterpieces. I don't care if I never see The Virgin Spring again, but I do re-watch several of his films over and over. I do not share Bergman's outlook on life, but I enjoy the way he express his outlook.
13 posted on 08/04/2017 2:09:34 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: Borges

For as anti-American as George Lucas seems sometimes he was quite fond of John Ford.Go figure.

CC


14 posted on 08/04/2017 2:09:41 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (Veni, vidi, Vomui- I came, I saw, I hurled.)
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To: Borges

I don’t care about “Great.”

Give me a Sergio Leone movie with an Ennio Morricone soundtrack.


15 posted on 08/04/2017 2:10:38 PM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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To: Celtic Conservative

John Ford was quite liberal. He became Republican in the last several years of his life.


16 posted on 08/04/2017 2:10:42 PM PDT by Borges
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To: xp38

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


17 posted on 08/04/2017 2:11:34 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Borges

Howard Hawkes directed probably the best Western ever: “Red River”.


18 posted on 08/04/2017 2:16:41 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: yarddog

When John Ford saw it he said to Hawks about John Wayne: “I didn’t know that big sonofabitch could act.”


19 posted on 08/04/2017 2:17:34 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

John Ford, Frank Capra, John Houston, Howard Hawks


20 posted on 08/04/2017 2:18:40 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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