Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)

Subject: Obit: Ingmar bergman
From: autolycus
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 05:10 AM

thoughts, appreciation.

His films were among my girst glimpses of film beyong the Anglo-American complex.

Revelatory





    Ivor

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar bergman
From: autolycus
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 05:10 AM

Sorry - should havbe preceded by BS


    Ivor

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Obituaries should be started with an "Obit" tag, as you did. We will manually move non-music obituaries to the non-music section when we see them. So, you did it right.
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Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar bergman
From: Mike Miller
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 08:48 AM

He was, surely, the most intense and provocative director. His films were more like paintings than movies. I will never forget the "dance" that ended "The Seventh Seal" or the "spider god" of "Through A Glass, Darkly".

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar bergman
From: Charley Noble
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:13 AM

His film images have haunted me through the years. I really can't say that about many contemporary films.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar bergman
From: Mrrzy
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:36 AM

A serious loss to serious film. Movies, on the other hand, will miss him even more...

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar bergman
From: Alba
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 10:50 AM

Thank you Mr Bergman.
'Winter Light' remains with me from my first viewing to this day.
A true Artist. A Director that respected his audience and allowed them to use their minds and become part of the Cinematic process.
J

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar bergman
From: Wesley S
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 11:09 AM

And here I thought he was dead already. He'll be missed. A true original. I wonder if he was just starting out today if any of his classic films would have gotten the "green light" at a studio?

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)
From: Micca
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 02:13 PM

A man that helped me become aware and acquainted with Film as an Art Form in its own right, with its own language and subtilties,Think ie Wild strawberries, Smiles on a summer night (That Sondheim based "A little Night Music on"),Persona, and Too many others to mention, A Colossus of International Cinema, He also got me used to films with Subtitles For all these gifts, my grateful thanks.
RIP Mr Bergman
Micca

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)
From: Q (Frank Staplin)
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 02:22 PM

Born July 1918.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)
From: katlaughing
Date: 30 Jul 07 - 09:29 PM

Thanks for all the films and the Beauty of your vision, Mr. Bergman.

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)
From: autolycus
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 05:14 AM

And thanks for making films for grown-ups, and clearly memorable films.

yes, indeed, in today's world, where you're over the hill at 30 in Hollywood (I've read), would his films have been made.

Even would film-makers of his ilk get their films made today? i just don't know.





       Ivor

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)
From: Wolfgang
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 06:00 AM

A great one has gone (to be followed by another, though not equally, great one today, Antonioni). Bergman was nominated greatest director of all times in Cannes, in 1997 by his peers. One may have other opinions who is the greatest film director, but Bergman would be a serious contender.

As an aside: "A serious loss"? I know that's what one says at the death of a great one, but it is actually not true (in this case). A serious loss was it in 2003, when he made clear by his behaviour at the last day of shooting that Sarabande would be his forever last film. I doubt he has ever left his lone island of Faro since.

Wolfgang

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 10:15 AM

Wolfgang-

I would certainly agree with your sentiment about "A serious loss."

But I would go on to say that it would have been "a serious loss" if Bergman had committed suicide in his twenties.

Instead we have the record of a serious artist whose creative works spans decades, and no doubt generations of people younger than I will be discussing his work for years to come.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Obit: Ingmar Bergman (30 July 2007)
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 31 Jul 07 - 01:39 PM

Not just the films - his version of Mozart's Magic Flute, back in 1975, was indeed magic. There is a whole bunch of clips from it in YouTube - for example, this one.

The "serious loss" is the fact that the film industry has succeeded in making sure that there are virtually no films made today that are comparable - I don't mean similar, but able to stand up in the same company.