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The Seventh Seal (1957)
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"This blog entry is part of my "movie year countdown round #2". Read more about that here. Jungfrukällan (The Virgin Spring) (I'm skipping #23, The Intruder right now since it took a long time for Netflix to send it to me, but I'll get to that soon (as if anyone cared what order I post these things)) Bergman's The Seventh Seal is one of my all time favorite films. Knowing that The Virgin Spring was another Bergman picture set within the later Medieval period and featuring a couple of the same actors were many things that made me interested in seeing it. It also had religious themes (but which of Bergman's films don't?). The film mixes brutality with forgiveness. Anger with God and with total dependence and worship of Him. Contrasts and themes that appear in many of Bergman's works, but the kind of simplicity of story and complexity of themes here is one of the most extreme contrasts. Although from what I've read Bergman went from thinking this one of his greatest films to ... "
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"On October 28 the world will plunge into an irradiated nightmare, littered with the wreckage of civilization, overrun by savage super mutants. Or, my world will be, anyway. Next month is when the hotly anticipated new video game Fallout 3 will be released. It’s been over a decade since the first Fallout, a now classic post-apocalyptic role-playing game. How has the franchise maintained such a devoted fan base? Simple: great story, great characters, great setting, and killer cinematics. The games have always been deeply indebted to post-apocalyptic cinema. The opening sequence of the first game is almost identical to the one in The Road Warrior, and the similarities don’t end there. As the Max Payne movie is (hopefully) about to prove, there is an elegant solution to the problem of videogame movies sucking: make movies about games that are already steeped in cinematic influence. In other words, a "
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"The idea for this analysis came to mind when I recently saw Bergman's The Seventh Seal. While I was not quite as blown away by the film as most accolades of the film would suggest, I still found it to be an excellent movie, and could see very clearly the influence it has had on so many films that have come after it. The one scene that I especially noticed a direct legacy in later films was a short, almost gimmicky little snippet during the medieval religious cult scene in the town--where the drums are beating loudly, people are screaming in agony as whips crack, and monks and other repenters are carrying enormous crosses on their backs. There is a short string of profile shots: Antonius, Jons, and "The Girl" (the only specific name I could find for her anywhere on the internet). The cuts between the faces are done with the beats of the drums; they are perfectly centered, with mist or smoke rising in the backgrounds, adding to each image's raw, black-and-white imagery; and each f ... "
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"when Hollywood makes a comedy and pokes fun at a Swedish film that was made long before the target audience was even born...well that tells you that it has indeed survived the test of time and translation... "
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"I'm super behind again.I saw Sylvia on Lifetime, so I'm not sure how much they cut out of the film. I liked the mood and the way the film looked. It seemed to get more and more gray as Plath descended into her depression. Of course, Gwyneth Paltrow ("The Good Night") and Daniel Craig ("The Invasion") gave solid performances as poetess Sylvia Plath and husband Ted Hughes. I liked that as a biopic, it didn't try to encompass Plath's whole life, just the time from when she met Hughes to her suicide. But despite the good qualities, it just wasn't all that interesting.Sublime is further proof that one should never blind buy no matter how cheep the DVD is. The plot sounded good. The day after his 40th birthday, a man goes into the hospital for a routine colonoscopy but things go wrong and the hospital isn't everything that it seems. Creepy hospital. Botched surgery. A recipe for success? Alas, no. The production was good. Very nice lighting and ... "
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"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 "
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Rest in peace, Ingmar
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"In memory of Ignmar Bergman, I finally saw one of his films tonight. "The Seventh Seal" or "Det Sjunde inseglet". Appropriately enough, it revolves around death.I don't know why, even knowing about the iconic chess-match paid homage to by Bill and Ted, I expected stark, grim realism. The film is very grim in parts, but realistic? It's more of an absurd fairy tale, an allegory, and to my great surprise, it's funny.I'm not sure if I like it yet, don't know quite what to make of it. I do know I've never seen anything like it, and that it's a shame I was reluctant to see Bergman's films until now. It's always sad when a great man dies, but this one leaves a legacy to be reckoned with, and one I'm planning to explore in detail. Originally posted on:As cool as a Fruitstand "
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Ingmar Bergman, Dead at 89
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"Legendary film director Ingmar Bergman has died at the age of 89. I’ll have an obit round-up later today; to be included, leave a comment or trackback on this post. In the meantime, watch the above clip: it’s the famous chess-with-Death scene from The Seventh Seal.
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Artsy films are useful
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"I've used clips from this movie in my classes for presentations more times than I remember. "
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Re: Discussion
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"Good question. There was The Seventh Seal that was the first film I saw that seemed completely devoted to an aesthetic, but that was college. I'd have to say that the movie Sorcerer was the first one I saw that felt like there was something more going on than just action adventure. There was a fetishizing of the scenery and a mythic quality. I'd have to agree with Paul though about the Star Wars flicks. The first time one of those massive ships cruised over head with this overwhelming scale, I thought I might pee my pants. "
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