"Ingmar Bergman's films utterly depressing" -- Ingmar Bergman

He doesn't look very glamorous in that link.

RIP :-(

8( have just watched 'Persona' and 'Sawdust And Tinsel' and 'Journey into Autumn' and those two documentaries about him on bbc4 in the last couple of weeks. Seventh Seal has just been re-released in cinemas here too, i must find out where it's on.

rip

Damn. Damn. Damn.

was going to see transformers today but now feel kind of guilty.

actually, watching the film with an overwhelming feeling of guilt might be the most fitting tribute to bergman i can think of.

:-(

Robots Is Pissguys

RIP, though, really, and I'll go and see transformers

Ingmar Bergman R.I.P.

Gukbe OTM.

So, can somebody explain to me what made Persona a parable about the Vietnam conflict? I've heard this mentioned several times, and beyond the self-immolation fragment in the opening montage I don't understand the connection. Answers appreciated, this has been bothering me for some time and Film Four's Bergman season means its bothering me again.

The parallel is made by zealous film professors.

Yeah but based on what? It's always puzzled me, I can't even see it in a tenuous way

I'll keep this in mind if I stay up during Film Four's screening tomorrow night.

Doubt I'll stay with it...

No it's really gripping all the way through, esp once they get to the house, but Vietnam?

my Bergman prof didn't mention vietnam. Just a lot of stuff about the opening montage being a summation of the history of cinema and the rest the film discussed in terms of "psychological vampirism".

see now, that's what I got

Finally watched Seventh Seal last night...sort of a duty-to-the-classic-canon thing rather than because I really wanted to watch it. But I was surprised how much I enjoyed it.

I saw it just now and it'sastoundingly brilliant. Fucking funny, sad, human, triumphant, frightening study of death and the unknowability of the divine. With a truly inspired ensemble cast, and that one scene with the eating of wild strawberries ("I will never forget this moment") which almost had me weeping for joy

so, was amateurist joking when he said he never saw a bergman film in 2004?

if he wasn't, i am really fucking stunned!

Persona has to be one of the 10 greatest, no doubt in my mind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXGFo2WI2aw

Witless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17fGOC0IC9I

anyone who mistakes bergman for being austere/cold/humourless should see this movie

<3 it

kinda reminds me of the muppet show

Oh dear god no song gets stuck in my head like Papageno!

I had no idea he did a The Magic Flute.

it is... wonderful.

please to see it.

it would be great to watch this on a big screen outdoors this summer, i feel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpIUYzxlpjw

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

kinda did a little tribute to magic flute here

That's great!

thk u!

I have pushed this o the top of my Netflix queue btw. I am so stoked!

Bergman in switched @ birth shockah!

his real dad was Steve jobs

I watched the "film" version of Scenes From a Marriage about sixteen years ago. Criterion released both versions. Is the TV version better?

Just watched "Seventh Seal" for the first time. My first Bergman. It was wonderful!

Best Death ever!

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.

For all the existential angst, there's a lot of humor in this.

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.

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.

Thanks, I will definitely check that out next!

This opens here shortly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELIMeemx-FI

I invented a new word to describe it: "Bergmanesque."

He was a so-called inspector of the film school

That's a job?

― jmm, Friday, 11 July 2025 bookmarkflaglink

I assume that means, like, an advisor or something like that.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 11 July 2025 bookmarkflaglink

Sounds like he was basically given a lot of power to make and break ppl in a very small scene, because of the international success he had. Its appalling.

Really tenuous rubbish. Visconti? Lol

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— Uchimama (@Uchimamalul) July 11, 2025

«Inspektør», which is the Scandinavian language term, would translate better with “supervisor”. Basically it’s a common word for a (mid-to high) leadership position at a school, below rector/dean, and typically oriented towards student counseling. While it would undoubtedly give a guy like Bergman a lot of influence (and why wouldn’t he have at a Swedish film school in the 60s and 70s?) the position itself was likely an ordinary one for a educational institution.

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Really tenuous rubbish. Visconti? Lol

The Ozu one made me laugh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu#Wartime

Details Ozu's involvement in war crimes! Not really blaming him tbh, I'm sure he'd rather have been making films back in Japan.

Yeah, without getting into the nitty gritty of which individuals could reasonably be blamed for what, on a macro level the Japanese film industry def didn't struggle with its fascist legacy in the way the German and Italian ones did.

I saw a counterpoint to Ozu as Kobayashi, who served and supported but supposedly refused advancement in protest, fwiw.