Risselada
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7/31/2007 2:07 PM
posted awhile ago
Bergman and Antonioni dead on the same day!
According to the news I've seen Ingmar Bergman and Michelangelo Antonioni both died yesterday. Two of probably the most highly regarded film directors in the history of filmmaking die in the same day! What does this mean? Both had reached ripe old ages and have left behind quite a legacy. So I don't think it's too much of a tragedy, but what an interesting coincidence. Does anyone consider either of these directors to be their favorite or amongst their few top favorites?
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ShaunHuston
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7/31/2007 5:15 PM
posted awhile ago
Re: Bergman and Antonioni dead on the same day!
I have to say no, and that's something I've thought about the last two days, especially in relationship to Bergman. I'm not conscious of having seen any of his films in their entirety. Like many, all I've seen from Antonioni is Blow-Up (1966). In fact, Westerns represent the only body of film made substantially before I was born or when I was too young to even be aware of movies with which I am intimately familiar, and that's due largely to the nature of my scholarly interests. Beyond that, and primarily as a fan and not as an academic, I can claim to have seen just about every film written and/or directed by Preston Sturges, am probably close on Hitchcock, and have seen a good number of Akira Kurosawa's films. When it comes to the Italian neo-realists, the French New Wave, classic American film noir, etc., I can think in terms of individual films, but not entire filmographies. I wonder how common these kinds of "gaps" are, even among ardent cinephiles and aspiring filmmakers? I know people who live for certain kinds of older films - silent films, pre-code films - but there's always a selectivity to people's engagement with earlier works and filmmakers. Such people are still more likely to have seen, say, all of Steven Soderbergh's or Wes Anderson's films than, say, all of Jean-Luc Godard's or Yasujiro Ozu's.
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