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Film director Bergman dies at 89
news.bbc.co.uk ^ | 07/30/2007 | news.bbc.co.uk

Posted on 07/30/2007 3:24:11 AM PDT by WesternCulture

Film director Bergman dies at 89

Legendary film-maker Ingmar Bergman has died aged 89, according to a Swedish news agency. One of the key figures in modern cinema, his 60-year career has spanned intense classics like Cries & Whispers, The Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries.

He was nominated for nine Oscars himself, while his films won the best foreign film Oscar three times.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: art; bergman; cinema; culture; entertainment; europe; film; ingmarbergman; movies; scandinavia; sweden
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To: Vaquero

I’m sure Liv Ullman spiced up his life...or not?


21 posted on 07/30/2007 6:15:03 AM PDT by eleni121 (+ En Touto Nika! By this sign conquer! + Constantine the Great)
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To: WesternCulture
"probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera". Said Woody Allen.

Film Artist. Great way of saying it.

22 posted on 07/30/2007 6:20:12 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: Rummyfan

There is an English version but I like the one with sub titles. The ending is almost unbearable.


23 posted on 07/30/2007 6:32:09 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: durasell

(Didn't want to disappoint.)

24 posted on 07/30/2007 6:35:47 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG (Apparently my former party considers me an "ugly nativist".)
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To: Rocko

I love Wild Strawberries. People are often surprised that I like many of Bergman’s films since I’m a Christian. But I don’t find his films to be anti-Christian. Bergman was the son of a devout minister and he somewhat rebelled against his strict father (certainly in his private life) but always maintained a respect for Christianity. His films often feature characters who mock faith, but they’re balanced by those who hold steadfastly to their faith.

Wild Strawberries is a good example. So is The Seventh Seal. In these films, the atheistic types are usually cold and cynical, while the Christians, though imperfect, have some life in them.

The Virgin Spring is an often overlooked Bergman film. It contains a violent rape scene (not particularly violent by today’s standards, but shocking in 1960 when the film was produced) but the ending is a great affirmation of faith.

RIP Mr. Bergman. You were a talented man.


25 posted on 07/30/2007 6:46:10 AM PDT by puroresu
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To: Rummyfan
My favorite? “De Düva” 1968 a spoof ON Bergman.

I saw the spoof years ago and liked it even though I am also a Bergman fan. Having Scandinavian ancestors, I feel Bergman captured the "Nordic soul" like no one else.

He is also fun to spoof and I think even he would have appreciated that fact.

RIP Ingmar.

26 posted on 07/30/2007 6:54:03 AM PDT by cerberus
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To: Rocko
Wild Strawberries would be a good place to start.

I agree. Some of Bergman's movies got a little silly later on. But 'Wild Strawberries' is a magnificent movie. Even worthy, IMO, of the lofty title, 'art.'

27 posted on 07/30/2007 7:02:54 AM PDT by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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To: WesternCulture

RIP

One of my favorite film directors.

To those who aren’t familiar with Bergman, I recommend “Fanny and Alexander” and “Winter Light.”


28 posted on 07/30/2007 7:36:32 AM PDT by AfterManyASummer (Hunter/Huckabee '08)
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To: leadpenny; Rummyfan

“Pele the Conquerer” was made by the Danish filmmaker Bille August.


29 posted on 07/30/2007 7:58:24 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Borges

Thanks. The thread just got me thinking about foreign films in general.


30 posted on 07/30/2007 8:20:51 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Vaquero

Narrated by Mel Brooks.

Or someone who sounds exactly like him.

< ]B^)


31 posted on 07/30/2007 8:40:01 AM PDT by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: WesternCulture
Indeed. Woody made A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy an homage to Smiles of a Summer's Night.
32 posted on 07/30/2007 8:43:19 AM PDT by Erasmus (My simplifying explanation had the disconcerting side effect of making the subject incomprehensible.)
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To: Erasmus
Woody made A Midsummer's Night Sex Comedy an homage to Smiles of a Summer's Night.

And Shakespeare. :-) And Jean Renoir (Rules of the Game). One of his worst films of the 80s actually.
33 posted on 07/30/2007 9:00:52 AM PDT by Borges
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To: Elle Bee

If you haven’t seen any of Bergman’s films start with my favorite, Sawdust and Tinsel, AKA The CLown’s Evening AKA The Naked Night. Then move onto to just about anything including Persona and The Passion of Anna, and The VIrgin Spring. LOts of people with not 1/1000th of his talent, made fun of his sometimes leaden sobriety, but he was one of the greatest filmmakers of the twentieth century, which also means one of the dozen or so greatest filmmakers of all time. Consult the conservative critic John Simon’s great study of Bergman’s films, which I believe was called Ingmar Bergman Directs/ but there may have been a follow up book/


34 posted on 07/30/2007 9:09:33 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length"----Robert Frost)
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To: Borges

Woody’s take on Smiles of a Summer Night” may not have been very good, but I know it was better than his outright rip-off of the worst tendencies of Bergman, a film with Geraldine Page called INTERIORS.


35 posted on 07/30/2007 10:53:34 AM PDT by supremedoctrine ("Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length"----Robert Frost)
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To: WesternCulture
For a very well-written piece by Louise Nordstrom,

click here.

36 posted on 07/30/2007 10:55:39 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Evil never stops.)
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To: durasell

“I’ve been to Atlantic City a million times. I’ve never seen Death walking on the beach.”


37 posted on 07/30/2007 10:56:35 AM PDT by william clark (DH4WH08 - Ecclesiastes 10:2)
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To: supremedoctrine
Yeah, at least 'Sex Comedy' was intentionally funny. Allen later admitted that the script of 'Interiors' reads like badly translated English subtitles of Bergman films.
38 posted on 07/30/2007 10:58:00 AM PDT by Borges
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To: leadpenny
Thanks. The thread just got me thinking about foreign films in general.

Lars von Trier's 'Medea'. Devastating.

39 posted on 07/30/2007 10:59:35 AM PDT by my_pointy_head_is_sharp (Evil never stops.)
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To: WesternCulture
The title as such, “De Düva: The Dove”, is probably an intentional linguistic misdeed. To someone who knows both Swedish and English (like I do) the title is rather funny and absurd.

Yes, it is intentional. The whole thing is done in a mock Swedish with English subtitles. My favorite line is the chauffeur, after the dove craps on the car window and he gets out to clean it off: "Duva caca. Eil weipen." The climax of the film is a badminton match with Death.

40 posted on 07/30/2007 11:07:06 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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