This is the kind of film you need no subtitles to enjoy.
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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Lt. Tragg was always good in Perry Mason.
Hitchcock and Kubrick.
“Smiles of a Summer Night” is one of my all-time favorite films, and as the article suggests it is a “sparkling comedy.” Many “dark” moments yet it brings joy and laughter out of human pain and relationships as suffering. Not typical of Bergman’s work, by any means, but it shows his range. I wish he had done more in that vein, but SSN is a masterpiece and should be much better known.
We took Lonesome Dove with us on vacation this summer, too.
Love it.
This is the kind of film you need no subtitles to enjoy.
I like a lot of David Lean movies.
Barry Lyndon was good. Different.
Who would be a real intellectual filmmaker then?
I’m *sniff* partial to *sniff* Sam Peckinpah *sniff* myself.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hnv7tXEBATc
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