https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpIUYzxlpjw
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
also anyone making common cause with john simon is pretty suspect.
*hisses and boos*
Simon is terrific and his reviews were wickedly funny. Your point about Simon trashing the abstruse but digging "Persona" is kinda OTM though
― Cunga, Tuesday, 18 May 2010 03:43 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda did a little tribute to magic flute here
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
That's great!
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
thk u!
― NUDE. MAYNE. (s1ocki), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
I have pushed this o the top of my Netflix queue btw. I am so stoked!
― frozen cookie (Abbott), Tuesday, 18 May 2010 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
Bergman in switched @ birth shockah!
― Mucho! Macho! Honcho! (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:06 (thirteen years ago) link
his real dad was Steve jobs
― Latham Green, Thursday, 26 May 2011 19:09 (thirteen years ago) link
I watched the "film" version of Scenes From a Marriage about sixteen years ago. Criterion released both versions. Is the TV version better?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 May 2013 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Just watched "Seventh Seal" for the first time. My first Bergman. It was wonderful!
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
Best Death ever!
― Aimless, Sunday, 13 April 2014 00:52 (ten years ago) link
The part where they are watching the witch be burned, and they are looking into her eyes and not seeing God in them, is pretty amazing.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:04 (ten years ago) link
For all the existential angst, there's a lot of humor in this.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 01:05 (ten years ago) link
I once tried to watch Wild Strawberries when I was on the comedown off Ecstasy. It's a great movie, but dear god, what was I thinking? I will never understand why I thought it would be suitable for that frame of mind. Had to turn it off.
― mirostones, Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:41 (ten years ago) link
Bergman has been my 2nd-favorite discovery since I started my heavy film-immersion program a few years ago. I recommend The Magician next or soonish.
― Oren Zombarchi (WilliamC), Sunday, 13 April 2014 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Thanks, I will definitely check that out next!
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
This opens here shortly:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELIMeemx-FI
I invented a new word to describe it: "Bergmanesque."
― clemenza, Sunday, 13 April 2014 16:54 (ten years ago) link
Summer Interlude is probably my favourite. Summer with Monika, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries and Through A Glass Darkly are all solid gold. and Virgin Spring (two really shockingly violent bits)
you're right about 7th seal and the humour - bloke climbs a tree to escape death, death gets out a saw. slapstick. also feels like every single frame of the film would make a great poster.
― koogs, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:53 (ten years ago) link
> Bergman has been my 2nd-favorite discovery since I started my heavy film-immersion program
and the first?
Yes, Death with the saw! So good! Also when the squire is off to the side calling every trick Lisa is going to use to calm her furious husband. "It's only a matter of time before she brings up his favorite dish..." This kind of humor is all over sitcoms!
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
Also the bit where they are doing that silly play with the devil and a somewhat vulgarly playful song and all of a sudden this mass of Black Death ecstatics wanders into town and just completely usurps their act. People whipping each other and calling out to God, making such a big show of it all. Suddenly the fool and his family dressed up in silly devil costumes seem the most genuine people around.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:15 (ten years ago) link
I definitely need to watch it again, there's a lot of commentary on the performance aspects of religion, on people willfully fooling each other. The painter in the monastery painting pictures to stir up church attendance, the witch who is desperately trying to convince herself - in the face of her own death - that the devil is real and in her eyes.
This movie seems heavily influenced by the tarot, beginning and ending w the fool, plenty of knights and cups and clubs, etc. throughout. Then again the Tarot is probably influenced by Revelations...
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:22 (ten years ago) link
koogs -- #1 is Ozu
― Oren Zombarchi (WilliamC), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:23 (ten years ago) link
5-week retro in NYC
https://filmforum.org/series/ingmar-bergman-centennial-retrospective-series
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Monday, 29 January 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
Liv Ullmann talks about Bergman in anticipation of BFI retrospective:
http://www.dazeddigital.com/film-tv/article/38835/1/liv-ullmann-ingmar-bergman-bfi
― Josefa, Tuesday, 30 January 2018 15:42 (six years ago) link
Saw "Through a Glass Darkly" at the cinema only yesterday!
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Tuesday, 30 January 2018 16:55 (six years ago) link
Got F&A out of the library for my first viewing in 15 years, particularly for the TV version, which I haven't seen. Is it worth it?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:33 (six years ago) link
yes it absolutely is
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
Abysmal.
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:34 (six years ago) link
lol wrong thread soz
― ♫ very clever with maracas.jpg ♫ (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
Yes, at least one of my favorite scenes is cut from the theatrical.
― Chris L, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:35 (six years ago) link
It was "The Silence" today. Still recovering.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:39 (six years ago) link
and is there more of Fanny? I would think so.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
i've never seen the theatrical cut so i can't say, but also nothing seems remotely excessive in the tv version so i don't really have a desire to watch the other one
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:41 (six years ago) link
http://static.adweek.com/adweek.com-prod/wp-content/uploads/files/blogs/just-do-it-hed-2013.jpg
― very stabbable gaius (wins), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
I did two hours ago!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:43 (six years ago) link
the silence is terrific
― mark s, Wednesday, 31 January 2018 21:52 (six years ago) link
The full version of Fanny and Alexander is sometimes my favourite movie of all time.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Thursday, 1 February 2018 01:10 (six years ago) link
So which is your favorite scene, Brad?
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 February 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
F&A is the one where the uncle blows out a candle in unorthodox fashion, right?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 2 February 2018 16:59 (six years ago) link
Fastest five hours I've ever watched, most of which in one sitting. Much of it remained familiar; it helped.
Anyway, F&A is a notch below his very best achievements, but as epic it's an ideal summa.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 2 February 2018 17:06 (six years ago) link
do any hoovering? running machine?
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Saturday, 3 February 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
this WSJ piece has been up for 3 days, and the headline blurb calls him "the French icon"!
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ingmar-bergmans-heart-of-darkness-1517434450
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 3 February 2018 17:24 (six years ago) link
lol jesus Bergman doesn’t really get talked about much these days, at least ime. I remember when he died my friend’s dad made fun of how pretentious The Seventh Seal was, and yeah that’s definitely my least favorite of the 10 or so I’ve seen, but he’s not the icon that Fassbinder is. I don’t know, half formed thought, but something I’ve been thinking about since I first saw Persona last year.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:16 (six years ago) link
I'm not sure I agree with you there.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:30 (six years ago) link
The reputation that The Seventh Seal has for "pretension" annoys me to no end. I'm assuming it has a lot to do with a) Bergman's presumed humourlessness (also B.S. as there is certainly humour in many of his films, and I don't just mean the comedies) and b) so many comedies (SCTV, Bill and Ted) utilizing the "playing chess with death" thing for laughs over the years, but mostly I just assume that most people who make the charge against the film haven't actually seen it.
― iCloudius (cryptosicko), Saturday, 3 February 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
Bergman has always been about, for as long as I've been aware of these things -- as an 'icon' or otherwise.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 3 February 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
yeah like i said this could just be in my life, in the film community here, he hasn't had a resurgence in interest or popularity like Tarkovsky or Fassbinder. not sure. like i said, not a fully formed thought. and yeah i know the thing about him being humorless is just wrong. even Cries & Whispers has its moments
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
but yeah, maybe it's just he's always been around, like Hitchcock. his work has never been out of print or under appreciated, like Tarkovsky
― flappy bird, Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:21 (six years ago) link
I think he's always been around, but then I'd say the same about Tarkovsky, I don't when Tarkovsky's ever been under appreciated. The thing about Fassbinder is he might get talked about a lot but I'm always surprised at how few of his films people have actually seen.
― Video reach stereo bog (Tom D.), Saturday, 3 February 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link