Film director Ingmar Bergman dies

[villager]

Source: AP

Report: Film director Bergman dies

The Associated Press


STOCKHOLM, Sweden—Swedish director Ingmar Bergman, an iconoclastic filmmaker widely regarded as one of the great masters of modern cinema, has died, local media reported Monday. He was 89 years old.

Bergman died at his home in Faro, Sweden, Swedish news agency TT said, citing his daughter Eva Bergman.

Through more than 50 films, Bergman's vision encompassed all the extremes of his beloved Sweden: the claustrophobic gloom of unending winter nights, the gentle merriment of glowing summer evenings and the bleak magnificence of the island where he spent his last years.

Bergman, who approached difficult subjects such as plague and madness with inventive technique and carefully honed writing, became one of the towering figures of serious filmmaking.

He was "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera," Woody Allen said in a 70th birthday tribute in 1988.


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[Nostradammit]

1. Thank you, Ingmar, for all your work

and all your magnificent, unabashed humanity.

I have Persona in the DVD player and watched Wild Strawberries about 8 times in a row last month.

RIP

[Hissyspit]

2. Another great 20th-century artist gone. Rest in peace.

[Hissyspit]

4. Iconic:

[Radio_Lady]

3. Awakened suddenly in the middle of the night... to this news... how very sad.

You were the very best. May you be remembered by all who knew you in person and all who admired you from afar.

Radio Lady in Oregon (film student 1956-62, film reviewer for three decades, and a devotee of your work through all of my life.)

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From: www.imdb.com:

Personal Quotes (Ingmar Bergman)

"The theater is like a faithful wife. The film is the great adventure -- the costly, exacting mistress."

"No form of art goes beyond ordinary consciousness as film does, straight to our emotions, deep into the twilight room of the soul."

"I hope I never get old so I get religious."

In a quarrel with one of my sons, I said: I know I've been a lousy father. He said: A father? You haven't been a father at all!

"Among today's directors I'm of course impressed by Steven Spielberg and Scorsese, and Coppola, even if he seems to have ceased making films, and Steven Soderbergh - they all have something to say, they're passionate, they have an idealistic attitude to the filmmaking process. Soderbergh's Traffic is amazing. Another great couple of examples of the strength of American cinema... American Beauty and Magnolia."

"I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images."

"I think I have made just one picture that I really like, and that is Winter Light. Everything is exactly as I wanted to have it, in every second of this picture."

"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."

"Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying."

Where Are They Now

(May 2004) Has now retired from directing, emptied his apartment in Stockholm and his room at the Dramatic Theater, and lives permanently at Fårö, Gotland (Sweden).

(January 2007) Recovering from hip replacement surgery.

[Vidar]

5. To one of the greatest directors ever: May your next life be as

interesting as your movies.

[xchrom]

6. a brilliant man --

peace be with his family.

[djjimz]

7. Thank you

Thanks for A Little Night Music...
:nopity:
Liv Ullmann will be crushed.

Rest In Peace Sir Genius

O8)

[BeyondGeography]

8. A giant who addressed the basic questions of existence with artisty and integrity

here's to a life well-lived.

[nuxvomica]

9. Good night, Mr. Bergman, and thanks for all the dreams

Especially the strawberries. They were delicious!

[kskiska]

10. TCM has a great interview of him with Dick Cavett

I saw it not too long ago. Maybe they'll rerun it. I love his movies. R.I.P.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

11. Rest in Peace.

[YOY]

12. Tack so Myket Herr Bergman.

Somn med angelarna.

[EFerrari]

13. I can't believe he's gone.

:(

[NYCGirl]

14. As a former college film major, I salute the master. NT

[ananda]

15. What a great filmmaker and artist!

Unparalleled.

I have nearly every film he made, and I've watched
all of them more than once.. some more than others.

There are still two or three I want to own, so maybe
they'll become available.

Bergman and Tarkovsky.. so great. In fact, Tarkovsky
used Bergman's star and camera man after he had to
expatriate in the early eighties.. for his last film, a truly
great one called "Offret" ("Sacrifice" in translation).

Sue

[Mugsy]

16. Completing the Triple! Famous people die in threes.

Ingmar Bergman, Tom Snyder and Marvin Zindler.

Three bigger-than-life, more than a little eccentric, characters. We'll miss them all.

[Kajsa]

17. Tack så mycket, Herr Bergman!

Du var aldrigt räd om döden.
Dina filmer lever annu som inspiration
till oss alla.

[candice]

18. He was one of the most significant artists in my life...

I traveled to Sweden based on my love of his films, and actually saw him on a major street in Stockholm (Kingsgarten?). I was sitting at an outdoor cafe, and my Swedish friend told me to not look right now, but that Ingmar Bergman was walking down the street toward us.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. ()

Still from the motion picture The Seventh Seal by Ingmar Bergman (1956)
from the website of the Frankfurt International Film Festival (Germany)

[Rhiannon12866]

29. Excellent film! The first one of his that I ever saw, back in school.

I admire his work and saw quite a bit of it while in school, but I have to admit that "Cries and Whispers" disturbed me a lot...

[kineneb]

20. loved his version of "Don Giovani" and "Magic Flute"

I watched both in music history classes. He caught the essence of Mozart.

[dave29]

21. One of my favorites

good bye, Mr. Bergman.

[Burma Jones]

22. Thank You for your long and abundant life

you left us a lot............

[Alexander]

23. "Hour Of The Wolf" is the scariest horror film ever.

Bergman was a genius.

RIP.

[progressoid]

24. Time for film fest in my house.

[flamingyouth]

25. Tak sa mycket

RIP

[MAGICBULLET]

26. Very sad...

One of my favorites. I don't think any filmmakers journey is a complete as his. From The Seventh Seal to Fanny and Alexander. Wow, what a body of work. Gives me chills to even think about.
He was always pondering death and existence, often doubtful of God, thinking that maybe there is no need for one as long as there's human love. Thank you Mr. Bergman for all your work.
I know Woody Allen must be feeling this.

[oldtime dfl_er]

27. Thank you Ingmar Bergman

He and Truffaut were the two big reasons I have been a devoted film fan all my life...they showed the possibilities. Amid all the crap and drivel being churned out by Hollywood these days, I can always go back to Fanny and Alexander (especially at Christmastime) and be cheered to the heavens by the potential and beauty of a brilliant film..he was a brillliant filmmaker.

[Hand]

28. One of the very few who could be said to have changed the way we see.

Eisenstein, Fellini, Bergman... it's a short list. His work was unique--austere and complex together. What a gift he was to us all.



This image alone would have been all we could ask for. But there was so much more--so much more. :toast:

[superconnected]

30. Rip Ingmar.

Thanks for the movies.

[aaronbees]

31. Quite a loss, what a legacy

If you're a fan, I highly recommend his autobiography, The Magic Lantern.