I really loved the celebration, other films you mention did not make
it "down here" and broke the dominance of hollywood...
On Jul 31, 2007, at 5:05 AM, Monica E Nilsson wrote:
> Yes, it is already there. Take a look at films such as The Inheritance
> (Arvet), The Bench (Bänken) and The Manslaughter (Dråpet) -- a
> trilogy by
> Per Fly or The Celebration (Festen) by Thomas Vinterberg or films
> by Susanne
> Bier and Paprika Steen -- all excellent Danish directors. Though
> Swedish, as
> I am, I would say these directors already picked up Bergman's legacy.
>
> Monica
>
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> David Preiss
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> And, with him, another brilliant piece of the last century is gone.
> Tired of the sad spectacle and the fireworks of contemporary mass
> media, I wonder if that kind of existential sensibility would ever
> come back to touch our sensibility again.
> David
>
> On Jul 30, 2007, at 4:49 PM, Leif Strandberg wrote:
>
>> Yes,
>>
>> Ingmar Bergman is dead and I am a bit astonished over my sadness.
>> During my formative years (the sixties) - we, the young left in
>> Sweden, hated Ingmar in every aspect we could find; "He was
>> bourgeoise", "He was obsessed with God and Death", "He was very far
>> from the Vietnam-movement", "His admiration for Germany and Hitler
>> during WW2 was bad" etcetera etcetera
>>
>> AND
>>
>> we saw every film he made!!
>>
>> AND
>>
>> we were touched by what we saw!!
>>
>> How come?
>>
>> I think - it was THE METHOD of Bergman's work that was
>> fascinating. When he worked it was really "emotion at work" (which
>> also is one of our conversations on XMCA this summer).
>>
>> Bergman could really set the stage and create interactions that
>> made it possible for the actors (and the rest of the staff) to
>> perform a head taller than they were - (we who have seen the same
>> actors in other movies not directed by Bergman can confirm that). I
>> think Bergman was brilliant in creating Zones of Emtional
>> Development (he was not an Intellectual director - he was a
>> sensitive performer (though he was well prepared), he set the
>> stage, the room, the colors, the music and then he invited the
>> actors to feel and perform. His dialogic style with his actors
>> (yes, they were HIS actors) was something special.
>>
>> Perhaps our conversation about emotions can learn something from
>> Ingmar (he was BTW very exact when spelling his name 'Ingmar': in
>> Sweden almost every Ingemar spells his name Ingemar, but Ingmar was
>> Ingmar!)
>>
>> It is late here in Sweden, but I think I'll go and see some
>> Bergman-DVD - I have them :-)
>>
>>
>> Leif
>> Sweden
>> 2007-07-30 kl. 17.06 skrev David Preiss:
>>
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>>> Film Great Ingmar Bergman Dies at 89
>>>
>>> Monday July 30, 2007 3:46 PM
>>>
>>>
>>> By LOUISE NORDSTROM
>>>
>>> Associated Press Writer
>>>
>>> STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, one of
>>> the greatest artists in cinema history, died Monday at his home on
>>> an island off the coast of Sweden. He was 89.
>>>
>>> Bergman's dozens of works combined deep seriousness, indelible
>>> imagery and unexpected flashes of humor in finely written,
>>> inventively shot explorations of difficult subjects such as plague
>>> and madness.
>>>
>>> His vision encompassed the extremes of his beloved Sweden: the
>>> claustrophobic gloom of unending winter nights, its glowing summer
>>> evenings and the bleak magnificence of the Baltic islet of Faro,
>>> where the reclusive artist spent his last years.
>>>
>>> Once described by Woody Allen as ``probably the greatest film
>>> artist ... since the invention of the motion picture camera,''
>>> Bergman first gained international attention with 1955's ``Smiles
>>> of a Summer Night,'' a romantic comedy that inspired the Stephen
>>> Sondheim musical ``A Little Night Music.''
>>>
>>> His last work, of about 60, was ``Saraband,'' a made-for-
>>> television movie that aired on Swedish public television in
>>> December 2003, the year he retired.
>>>
>>> ``Sixty years have passed, nothing has changed, it's still the
>>> same fever,'' he wrote of his passion for film in an 1987
>>> autobiography.
>>>
>>> ``Saraband'' starred Liv Ullmann, the Norwegian actress and
>>> director who appeared in nine Bergman films and had a five-year
>>> affair, and a daughter, with the director.
>>>
>>> The other actor most closely associated with Bergman was Max von
>>> Sydow, who appeared in 1957's ``The Seventh Seal,'' an allegorical
>>> tale of the Black Plague years as a knight playing chess with the
>>> shrouded figure of Death, one of cinema's most famous scenes.
>>>
>>> His 1982 film ``Fanny and Alexander'' won an Oscar for best
>>> foreign film.
>>>
>>> ``The world has lost one of its very greatest filmmakers. He
>>> taught us all so much throughout his life,'' said British actor
>>> and director Richard Attenborough.
>>>
>>> Astrid Soderbergh Widding, president of The Ingmar Bergman
>>> Foundation, confirmed the death to The Associated Press, and
>>> Swedish journalist Marie Nyrerod said the director died peacefully
>>> during his sleep.
>>>
>>> Bergman never fully recovered after a hip surgery in October last
>>> year, Nyrerod told Swedish broadcaster SVT.
>>>
>>> ``He was one of the world's biggest personalities. There were
>>> (Japanese film director Akira) Kurosawa, (Italy's Federico)
>>> Fellini and then Bergman. Now he is also gone,'' Danish director
>>> Bille August told The Associated Press.
>>>
>>> ``It is a great loss. I am in shock,'' August said.
>>>
>>> Cannes Film Festival director Gilles Jacob called Bergman the
>>> ``last of the greats, because he proved that cinema can be as
>>> profound as literature.''
>>>
>>> The son of a Lutheran clergyman and a housewife, Ernst Ingmar
>>> Bergman was born in Uppsala, Sweden on July 14, 1918, and grew up
>>> with a brother and sister in a household of severe discipline that
>>> he described in painful detail in the autobiography ``The Magic
>>> Lantern.''
>>>
>>> The title comes from his childhood, when his brother got a ``magic
>>> lantern'' - a precursor of the slide-projector - for Christmas.
>>> Ingmar was consumed with jealousy, and he managed to acquire the
>>> object of his desire by trading it for a hundred tin soldiers.
>>>
>>> The apparatus was a spot of joy in an often-cruel young life.
>>> Bergman recounted the horror of being locked in a closet and the
>>> humiliation of being made to wear a skirt as punishment for
>>> wetting his pants.
>>>
>>> He broke with his parents at 19 and remained aloof from them, but
>>> later in life sought to understand them. The story of their lives
>>> was told in the television film ``Sunday's Child,'' directed by
>>> his own son Daniel.
>>>
>>> The director said he had coped with the authoritarian environment
>>> of his childhood by living in a world of fantasy. When he first
>>> saw a movie he was greatly moved.
>>>
>>> But he said the escape into another world went so far that it took
>>> him years to tell reality from fantasy, and Bergman repeatedly
>>> described his life as a constant fight against demons, also
>>> reflected in his work.
>>>
>>> The demons sometimes drove him to great art - as in ``Cries and
>>> Whispers,'' the deathbed drama that climaxes when a dying woman
>>> cries ``I am dead, but I can't leave you.'' Sometimes they drove
>>> him over the top, as in ``Hour of the Wolf,'' where a nightmare-
>>> plagued artist meets real-life demons on a lonely island.
>>>
>>> It was in the Swedish capital that Bergman broke into the world of
>>> drama, starting with a menial job at the Royal Opera House after
>>> dropping out of college.
>>>
>>> Bergman was hired by the script department of Swedish Film
>>> Industry, the country's main production company, as an assistant
>>> script writer in 1942.
>>>
>>> In 1944, his first original screenplay was filmed by Alf Sjoeberg,
>>> the dominant Swedish film director of the time. ``Torment'' won
>>> several awards including the Grand Prize of the 1946 Cannes Film
>>> Festival, and soon Bergman was directing an average of two films a
>>> year as well as working with stage production.
>>>
>>> After the acclaimed ``The Seventh Seal,'' he quickly came up with
>>> another success in ``Wild Strawberries,'' in which an elderly
>>> professor's car trip to pick up an award is interspersed with
>>> dreams.
>>>
>>> Other noted films include ``Persona,'' about an actress and her
>>> nurse whose identities seem to merge, and ``The Autumn Sonata,''
>>> about a concert pianist and her two daughters, one severely
>>> handicapped and the other burdened by her child's drowning.
>>>
>>> Though best known internationally for his films, Bergman was also
>>> a prominent stage director. He worked at several playhouses in
>>> Sweden from the mid-1940s, including the Royal Dramatic Theater in
>>> Stockholm which he headed from 1963 to 1966. He staged many plays
>>> by the Swedish author August Strindberg, whom he cited as an
>>> inspiration.
>>>
>>> The influence of Strindberg's grueling and precise psychological
>>> dissections could be seen in ``Scenes From a Marriage,'' an
>>> intense detailing of the disintegration of a marriage that was
>>> released as a feature film in 1974.
>>>
>>> Bergman showed his lighter side in the following year's ``The
>>> Magic Flute,'' again first produced for TV. It is a fairly
>>> straight production of the Mozart opera, enlivened by touches such
>>> as repeatedly showing the face of a young girl watching the opera
>>> and comically clumsy props and costumes.
>>>
>>> Bergman remained active later in life with stage productions and
>>> occasional TV shows. He said he still felt a need to direct,
>>> although he had no plans to make another feature film.
>>>
>>> Bergman, at age 84, started production on ``Saraband'' - based on
>>> the two main characters from ``Scenes From a Marriage'' - in the
>>> fall of 2002.
>>>
>>> In a rare news conference, he said he wrote the story after
>>> realizing he was ``pregnant with a play.''
>>>
>>> ``At first I felt sick, very sick. It was strange. Like Abraham
>>> and Sarah, who suddenly realized she was pregnant,'' he said,
>>> referring to biblical characters. ``It was lots of fun, suddenly
>>> to feel this urge returning.''
>>>
>>> Bergman waged a fight against real-life tormentors: Sweden's
>>> powerful tax authorities.
>>>
>>> In 1976, during a rehearsal at the Royal Dramatic Theater, police
>>> came to take Bergman away for interrogation about tax evasion. The
>>> director, who had left all finances to be handled by a lawyer, was
>>> questioned for hours while his home was searched. When released,
>>> he was forbidden to leave the country.
>>>
>>> The case caused an enormous uproar in the media and Bergman had a
>>> mental breakdown that sent him to hospital for over a month. He
>>> later was absolved of all accusations and in the end only had to
>>> pay some extra taxes.
>>>
>>> In his autobiography he admitted to guilt in only one aspect: ``I
>>> signed papers that I didn't read, even less understood.''
>>>
>>> The experience made him go into voluntary exile in Germany, to the
>>> embarrassment of the Swedish authorities. After nine years, he
>>> returned to Stockholm.
>>>
>>> The date of Bergman's funeral has not been set, but will be
>>> attended by a close group of friends and family, the TT news
>>> agency reported.
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