list http://www.spout.com/ Recent community activity around Ingmar Bergman on Spout Copyright 2005-9 Spout, LLC Spout RSS http://www.spout.com/images/SpoutLogoRSS.jpg http://www.spout.com/ 136 30 http://www.spout.com/films/Ingmar_Bergman/111513/default.aspx Title: Ingmar Bergman
Year: 1972
Director: Stig Bjorkman
Plot: The Swedish documentary Ingmar Bergman does not answer the question "how does this great artist differ from run-of-the-mill types?" Bergman is unquestionably Sweden's greatest film director, many consider him to be one of the world's all-time great directors. Among his better-known films are The Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Cries and Whispers and Fanny and Alexander. His films peer deeply into the painful places in the human psyche, yet they have an unusual clarity and luminosity. This documentary is interesting and even necessary viewing for fans of the great movie director's work. One thing which is very clear is that he does not slight the technical aspects of his craft. This documentary features interviews with Bergman himself, as well as interviews with many of the actors who have worked with him, including Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. It also shows him at work during the shooting of a film. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
Number of blog posts: 1
]]>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:00:51 GMTIngmar Bergman1972Stig BjorkmanThe Swedish documentary Ingmar Bergman does not answer the question "how does this great artist differ from run-of-the-mill types?" Bergman is unquestionably Sweden's greatest film director, many consider him to be one of the world's all-time great directors. Among his better-known films are <a href=/films/30747/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>The Seventh Seal</a>, <a href=/films/38369/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Wild Strawberries</a>, <a href=/films/7437/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Cries and Whispers</a> and <a href=/films/11172/default.aspx style='text-decoration:underline'>Fanny and Alexander</a>. His films peer deeply into the painful places in the human psyche, yet they have an unusual clarity and luminosity. This documentary is interesting and even necessary viewing for fans of the great movie director's work. One thing which is very clear is that he does not slight the technical aspects of his craft. This documentary features interviews with Bergman himself, as well as interviews with many of the actors who have worked with him, including <a href="/players/P____69424/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Max von Sydow</a> and <a href="/players/P___114863/default.aspx" style='text-decoration:underline'>Liv Ullmann</a>. It also shows him at work during the shooting of a film. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide1http://www.spout.com/images/no_image.jpghttp://www.spout.com/films/Ingmar_Bergman/111513/default.aspxFilm http://www.spout.com/blogs/spoutblog/archive/2007/8/8/17642.aspxPost By: SpoutBlog
Post To: SpoutBlog on spout.com
Post Date: 8/8/2007 6:00:51 PM
Body: Once a month, cultural critic Camille Paglia publishes a lengthy assessment of the current moment in pop culture at Salon.com. This month’s installment went live today, and the meat of it is an Antonioni/Bergman inspired elegy for the art film. The whole piece is, as is the norm for Ms. Paglia, terribly quotable, but the part where she appears to elevate the entire Star Wars series to the status of those late Europeans’ “masterpieces” is probably the most controversial: On the culture front, fabled film directors Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni dying on the same day was certainly a cold douche for my narcissistic generation of the 1960s. We who revered those great artists, we who sat stunned and spellbound before their masterpieces — what have we achieved? Aside from Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather series, with its deft flashbacks and gritty social realism, is there a single film produced over the past 35 years that is arguably of equal philosophical weight or virtuosity of execution to Bergman’s The Seventh Seal or Persona? Perhaps only George Lucas’ multilayered, six-film Star Wars epic can genuinely claim classic status, and it descends not from Bergman or Antonioni but from Stanley Kubrick and his pop antecedents in Hollywood science fiction. A lot of bloggers are reading this and doing a double-take, as if to say, “Did she just say George Lucas is as good as Bergman? OHNOSHEDIDN’T!!!” Example, from The Opinion Mill: “Only in the mind of Camille Paglia can Jar-Jar Binks push aside Antonius Block to play chess with Death on the stony beach. I’d always considered the mutual starfucking between George Lucas and Joseph Campbell to be the last word in intellectual vacuousness, but one should never underestimate Camille.” This is not how I read Paglia’s statement at all — I read it as, “The only films of the last three decades that may in the future be considered classics are the Star Wars films, and that’s evidence of how far from the art house golden era we’ve fallen.” But maybe I’m wrong. For all I know, Paglia really did mean to equate Antoniennui with (let’s all make this joke at once) the travails of Jar Jar Binks. Later, in the very same column, Camille suggests that Kelly Clarkson has the potential to singlehandedly “revive…the American fine arts.” I’m all for being contrarian, but at some point, doesn’t the polemic start to strain credulity? Originally posted on:Spoutblog
]]>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:00:51 GMTSpoutBlogSpoutBlog on spout.com8/8/2007 6:00:51 PMOnce a month, cultural critic Camille Paglia publishes a lengthy assessment of the current moment in pop culture at Salon.com. This month’s installment went live today, and the meat of it is an Antonioni/Bergman inspired elegy for the art film. The whole piece is, as is the norm for Ms. Paglia, terribly quotable, but the part where she appears to elevate the entire Star Wars series to the status of those late Europeans’ “masterpieces” is probably the most controversial: On the culture front, fabled film directors Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni dying on the same day was certainly a cold douche for my narcissistic generation of the 1960s. We who revered those great artists, we who sat stunned and spellbound before their masterpieces — what have we achieved? Aside from Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather series, with its deft flashbacks and gritty social realism, is there a single film produced over the past 35 years that is arguably of equal philosophical weight or virtuosity of execution to Bergman’s The Seventh Seal or Persona? Perhaps only George Lucas’ multilayered, six-film Star Wars epic can genuinely claim classic status, and it descends not from Bergman or Antonioni but from Stanley Kubrick and his pop antecedents in Hollywood science fiction. A lot of bloggers are reading this and doing a double-take, as if to say, “Did she just say George Lucas is as good as Bergman? OHNOSHEDIDN’T!!!” Example, from The Opinion Mill: “Only in the mind of Camille Paglia can Jar-Jar Binks push aside Antonius Block to play chess with Death on the stony beach. I’d always considered the mutual starfucking between George Lucas and Joseph Campbell to be the last word in intellectual vacuousness, but one should never underestimate Camille.” This is not how I read Paglia’s statement at all — I read it as, “The only films of the last three decades that may in the future be considered classics are the Star Wars films, and that’s evidence of how far from the art house golden era we’ve fallen.” But maybe I’m wrong. For all I know, Paglia really did mean to equate Antoniennui with (let’s all make this joke at once) the travails of Jar Jar Binks. Later, in the very same column, Camille suggests that Kelly Clarkson has the potential to singlehandedly “revive…the American fine arts.” I’m all for being contrarian, but at some point, doesn’t the polemic start to strain credulity? Originally posted on:Spoutblog http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/filmmaker/MemberTagFilms.aspxfilmmaker
Number of films tagged: 1675

Number of people who tagged: 17

Number of times used: 30

]]>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:12:17 GMT16751730Tag http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/behindthescenes/MemberTagFilms.aspxbehindthescenes
Number of films tagged: 2757

Number of people who tagged: 15

Number of times used: 16

]]>Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:02:41 GMT27571516Tag http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/interview/MemberTagFilms.aspxinterview
Number of films tagged: 1477

Number of people who tagged: 11

Number of times used: 21

]]>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:04:19 GMT14771121Tag http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/filmdirector/MemberTagFilms.aspxfilmdirector
Number of films tagged: 339

Number of people who tagged: 1

Number of times used: 1

]]>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:02:59 GMT33911Tag http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/careerretrospective/MemberTagFilms.aspxcareerretrospective
Number of films tagged: 1043

Number of people who tagged: 0

Number of times used: 0

]]>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:01:49 GMT104300Tag http://www.spout.com/members/0/tags/swedish-nationality/MemberTagFilms.aspxswedish-nationality
Number of films tagged: 30

Number of people who tagged: 0

Number of times used: 0

]]>Fri, 17 Aug 2007 16:47:09 GMT3000Tag