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I just received the news on the radio.
The greatest filmmaker ever to come out of Sweden and one of the World's finest directors passed away this morning. He was 89 years old.
Bergman's importance for cinema is undisputed. His importance for the Swedish cinema and film industry is almost impossible to comprehend. Even though he didn't make a movie after 1982 (I'm not counting the televized play Saraband) his name and his work always came up at some point in every important film debate. I remember when Bergman crawled out of his hole and called a film by Lukas Moodysson "the first masterpiece by a young master".... Moodysson doesn't have to worry about getting funds for his projects.... ever again.
This relationship between the Swedish film industry and Bergman wasn't always healthy. The industry is small and modest, Bergman was a giant - and he knew it. But he deserved that epithet and he must be the single person who did the most for Swedish film ever.
Even though he was old I kind of was taken by surprise. Bergman, even in his late years, always appeared to be very vital and in the very few interviews he gave you got the impression that this was one of those people who might live forever. But Death won this Chess game too.....
He struggled with inner demons all his life... but I still hope he'll get some peace now.
R.I.P. Ingmar.......
The greatest filmmaker ever to come out of Sweden and one of the World's finest directors passed away this morning. He was 89 years old.
Bergman's importance for cinema is undisputed. His importance for the Swedish cinema and film industry is almost impossible to comprehend. Even though he didn't make a movie after 1982 (I'm not counting the televized play Saraband) his name and his work always came up at some point in every important film debate. I remember when Bergman crawled out of his hole and called a film by Lukas Moodysson "the first masterpiece by a young master".... Moodysson doesn't have to worry about getting funds for his projects.... ever again.
This relationship between the Swedish film industry and Bergman wasn't always healthy. The industry is small and modest, Bergman was a giant - and he knew it. But he deserved that epithet and he must be the single person who did the most for Swedish film ever.
Even though he was old I kind of was taken by surprise. Bergman, even in his late years, always appeared to be very vital and in the very few interviews he gave you got the impression that this was one of those people who might live forever. But Death won this Chess game too.....
He struggled with inner demons all his life... but I still hope he'll get some peace now.
R.I.P. Ingmar.......
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
