About Ingmar Bergman (1918-2007)

[Emanuel A.]

The world lost the great swedish moviemaker. Unfortunately, he passed away.

R.I.P. our beloved Master.

Harriet Andersson as Monika in Ingmar Bergman's Summer With Monika

 

[Tom Lowe]

R.I.P.

With Kurosawa, Kurbrick and now Bergman gone, there are few cinema titans left today.

 

[Emanuel A.]

A word also...for remember one of his partners, the cinematographer Sven Nykvist (1922-2006), a swedish moviemaker too (the Swedish art rocks indeed):

http://livingromcom.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/ingmar_bergman_.html

 

[Jaime Vallés]

This is sad news, indeed. He's responsible for some of the world's greatest films. His vision will be missed.

 

[Emanuel A.]

[by courtesy of Alexander Joyce from the cinematography.com forums]

click here -- passages of a life in pictures

 

[Bruce Allen]

Deeply sad! It's not even a front page news article on CNN?!?

What a wonderful, inspiring, revelatory director. We will remember him forever.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

 

[Mark B.]

Maybe it'll make tomorrows papers.

 

[Tom Lowe]

It's been a day of three major deaths here in the US. Bergman, football coach Bill Walsh, and TV talk star Tom Snyder.

 

[PaulClements]

Very sad indeed

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls." - Ingmar Bergman

 

[Petr Dvorak]

Deeply sad! It's not even a front page news article on CNN?!?

What a wonderful, inspiring, revelatory director. We will remember him forever.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

Just now I watched some very good material about Ingmar Bergman on CNN tv. Looks like they prepared it very carefully.

 

[Zakaree Sandberg]

Deeply sad! It's not even a front page news article on CNN?!?

What a wonderful, inspiring, revelatory director. We will remember him forever.

Bruce Allen
www.boacinema.com

of course not.. jamie lynn spears (sister of britney spears) is prego..
and cant forget about the all importance of the lohan debacle

 

[Carl-August Savgård]

http://www.ingmarbergman.se/

If someone wants to read more about Ingmar. Available in English.

 

[Sanjin Jukic]

Ingmar Bergman is one of the last great European film authors like were Louis Bunuel, Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, P.P.Passolini, Luchino Visconti, François Truffaut etc. After all of them died started a decline of European cinema with the bad clones till today. Hopefuly the situation will change soon with a quality continuation of the European author cinema.

 

[Tom Lowe]

Last night Turner Classics ran the Seventh Seal and even better, a long interview Dick Cavett did with Bergman in what appears to be the very early 70s. I DVR'd it and watched it this evening. Just amazing to have a chance to see him interviewed.

The best thing I took away from the interview was a line Bergman had about his responsibilities as a director. He said something like, "The director's whole job is to create an atmosphere of total security for the actors. That's the whole job." Very interesting perspective, and when it comes from someone like him, I listen.

 

[Emanuel A.]

Interesting viewpoint. On the other hand ala Ford, there has been who thinks the craft in a different route and other challenge way. But Bergman was not a man of consensus in the strictly meaning of his craft. Maybe he wanted to give to the actors what couldn't provide to himself. Beyond his outcome, that is, his results which surpassed his own expectations.