Cinema fans - Ingmar Bergman dead
 

I know his stuff won't be to everybody's taste but if you are an art house film fan I am sure you have seen some of his works. After all, he did a huge number of films. The Seventh Seal has only just had a cinema re-release too.

Anyway..article http://www.suntimes.com/entertainmen...073007.article

and he was only 89

The Magic Flute :thumbsup

99.99999% of GFY isn't going to know who Ingmar Bergman was.

But they will know who Paris, Lindsay and Nicole are. :1orglaugh

Am I the only one who thinks we deserve terrorist attacks?

Well perhaps I wouldn't go that far but you are probably correct about the percentages. However, threads like these tend to flush out those that do and therefore add to the world cinema club we have going on on GFY and another board.

He's the guy who invented Ikea, right? :winkwink:

What a sad day indeed... He was one of my top favorites (this weekend I watched "Shame" once again).

Wow, I just picked up and watched The Seventh Seal on DVD last week. My all time favorite Bergman movie...Max Von Sydow was so good in that flick as Antonius Block...when I first saw the flick, I was thinking "what the fuck?" but as the movie progressed, I really enjoyed it.

Sadly, it will probably get a remake that will feature Block playing against Death on a wii instead of a game of chess....

RIP

RIP, he was a great director!

Hopefully that will NEVER happen... was it the Criterion version of that film?

Now that is a loss.

yup
some pretty good extras and a great video transfer

That movie should be studied extensively in filmmaking schools...not for the story so much as the camera, lighting, direction, etc.

Although most of his movies were never my cup of tea (you sure need to be in mood), he surely deserves a great respect. Btw. have you known he was the biggest idol for Allen Konigsberg aka Woody Allen?

So many people think Woody Allen came up with that. The Seventh Seal has been re-released in the British cinemas this summer so hopefully that is as far as it goes in terms of remakes.

I can see where the film influenced Allen quite a bit, but hadn't even entertained the idea that he might be responsible for it.

Agree - and think it still is being revued in film schools - Sven Nykvist's photography always has been of interest to lighting cameramen in almost all of Bergman's movies :thumbsup

That Swedish theater/cinema "club" with with Bergman, Liv Ullmann, Ingrid Thulin, Harriet and Bibi Andersson, von Sydow et al, sure was an interesting group - it can be surprising what can be generated from relatively little funding and a free spirit :)

He was a great director..

RIP ingmar!

Here's a great mashup type thing
Scenes from The Seventh Seal...with The Clash "Rock The Casbah" playing during the scene
https://youtube.com/watch?v=vVLJTFk4SeE

I meant that Allen re-did the playing chess with death thing in one of his films.

ah, ok, I was confused, hehe

hmm, I'm not a huge Woody Allen fan, so not sure which movie it would have been....I noticed his jester in "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask" is similar to the one in Seventh Seal

It's kind of hard not to know who those sluts are, I mean you turn on the news and there they are, not much you can do about it.

Speaking of Allen/Bergman connections, I found this interesting blog about Allen borrowing from Bergman

http://filmbabble.blogspot.com/2007/...len-angle.html

Big news here in Sweden.

what a sad news! i'm a fan of her

the authentic movie makers are less and less...RIP Ingmar Bergman

the new ones only know how to make toon based movies.

I heard Ken Russell on tv yesterday talking about him and then today I get my latest assignment for the film class I am taking for my Masters and it involves talking about censorship in British film with specific focus on the period when Ken and Ingmar films were being cut up a lot by the BBFC. Ken can't have long to go either, sadly.

big loss! RIP