Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Understanding Ingmar Bergman

I found this very appealling BBC documentary about the work of Ingmar Bergman, the Swedish director.

I am now very intrigued by the movies "Persona" and "The Silence".

As mentioned in the previous entry, a movie about him and his muse (or one of his muses) Liv Ullman is coming out next month.

I read that Woody Allen referred to Bergman as "probably the greatest film artist, all things considered, since the invention of the motion picture camera. Here is the article from TIME magazine.