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

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

"as told to an ILX reporter."

"Shut UP, dad!"

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The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

So I finally knuckled down and watched The Seventh Seal. This film is such a piece of world cultural heritage it's really beyond criticism. But the above quote couldn't be more poignant, given the fires in Australia and Brazil, and other prominent climate changes. I suppose I really ought to take this to a politics thread.

Starting scenes from a marriage , my first bergman

was my first bergman too

Theatrical or mini-series version?

TV version of course

Are you watching his films in descending order of length? Fanny and Alexander next then.

I was going to ask what to watch next …

Here’s my review 2/3 way through
First third strong, delicious writing
Second third weaker. Where are the daughters?

I watched The Magic Flute today, found it hard to stay engaged with but was pleasant background

Second third weaker. Where are the daughters?

Otm.

i'm three episodes into the HBO scenes from a marriage remake, and i like how the daughter is actually a presence in the story, as opposed to being completely ignored in the original. not finding much interesting about it beyond that, though

Bergman Island begins as a droll, faintly precious Hong Sang-soo flick before going in an unexpected, delightful direction. Mia Hansen-Løve wrote and directed.

Pulled Dreams out of the box last night and really enjoyed it, as good as his early/"second tier" stuff gets. But I will always remember it for the little button at the end of Eva Dahlbeck's last scene with her lover, which got a huge LOL from me, maybe the single best joke in his filmography imho.

I like the film a lot, can't remember the joke

Just a perfectly staged & timed black-comic gag after an intense dramatic scene. (Hope I got the spoiler tag right bc I dont want to ruin it for folks.)

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Ah, thanks!

to me the miniseries is just the guy from Star Wars and the lady from zero dark thirty having relationship problems no thanks

Damn I do want to catch the reissue of Cries and Whispers.

The new BFI trailer for it is excellent, but really pushes the horror movie angle (which of course it is and isn't, like so many Bergmans):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Pbh0oTQXmE

Caught it at the GFT last week, it jumped from one of my least favourite Bergman's to one of my favourites

While filming "Winter Light" (1963), Ingmar Bergman felt Gunnar Björnstrand was too happy to play the lead character. So, Ingmar asked a doctor to tell Gunnar that he suffered from a severe disease. Gunnar was then put on medication & became very depressed. pic.twitter.com/0zGRfVoTbU

— DepressedBergman (@DannyDrinksWine) September 10, 2023