{"id":560,"date":"2007-07-30T12:11:13","date_gmt":"2007-07-30T19:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/30\/rip-ingmar-bergman\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T16:37:12","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T21:37:12","slug":"rip-ingmar-bergman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/rip-ingmar-bergman\/","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Ingmar Bergman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers ever, died yesterday<\/a>. I haven’t seen a lot of Bergman films, and those I have tend to strand me between a sense that I may be watching something incredible and my realization that I’m not understanding half of it. Reading<\/a> around the film<\/a> blogosphere<\/a> a little this morning, though, is increasing my desire to try to become better acquainted with Bergman.<\/p>\n

I think Persona<\/a><\/i> was the first film of his I saw, and the only thing I remember was how fascinating it was when the two women, isolated on an island, started merging or even exchanging personalities almost, and how much I liked the way he juxtaposed their faces onto each other to depict that merging visually. Those shots have been imitated to the point of cliche now, but then I hadn’t seen them before. My favorite Bergman film right now is probably the lighthearted romantic romp Smiles of a Summer Night<\/a><\/i>, largely, I think, because it remains one of his more accessible ones. ;) I recently saw the second part of his “Faith” trilogy, Winter Light<\/a><\/i> (I gave my reaction to the first of the trilogy, Through a Glass Darkly<\/a><\/i>, here<\/a>), and was suitably impressed by it, especially as compared to Bresson<\/a>‘s Diary of a Country Priest<\/a><\/i>, which I should have liked but didn’t. I have also seen The Seventh Seal<\/a><\/i>, probably Bergman’s most famous film (featuring a chess game between a medieval knight and Death), but need a rewatch on it, because I don’t remember much except liking the visuals and being sort of bored by the slow, philosophic pacing (hey, I was young).<\/p>\n

The Guardian has links to several Bergman clips<\/a>, and the New York Times has reprinted part of a review\/essay<\/a> on Bergman by Woody Allen, who was very influenced by him as a filmmaker. (I watched a bit of Manhattan<\/a><\/i> the other day, and it wasn’t ten minutes before Allen and Keaton were arguing over whether Bergman was the greatest of all filmmakers or overrated.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ingmar Bergman, one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers ever, died yesterday. I haven’t seen a lot of Bergman films, and those I have tend to strand me between a sense that I may be watching something incredible and my realization that I’m not understanding half of it. Reading around the film blogosphere a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[143],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36657,"url":"https:\/\/www.the-frame.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/challenge-week-52-autumn-sonata\/","url_meta":{"origin":560,"position":0},"title":"Challenge Week 52: Autumn Sonata","author":"Jandy","date":"February 23, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Finishing the Challenge out with a classic Bergman-Bergman film, the only one Ingmar and Ingrid ever made together, and it's a doozy. 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