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Monday, July 30, 2007

Ingmar Bergman, last great Swedish humorist




Max von Sydow plays chess with Death.

Word comes that Ingmar Bergman has died at his home in Sweden.

My late friend Moose Mattson, at one time an Augustana (Swedish) Lutheran pastor, used to refer to Bergman's dark, existential flicks as 'Swedish humor'.

Whether or not you can see the justice of the remark, Bergman made an enormous contribution to film. Think of the chess game with Death during the Black Plague in 'The Seventh Seal'. How funny is that?

Three obits below...my fav is the Los Angeles Times.

Wouldn't you expect it?



Ingmar Bergman Dies --
-- Dan Damon

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1 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hi, Dan,

I mourn the loss of Bergman, one of the greatest directors the world has ever seen. Even before I began attending film school in the 1980s, I would watch Bergman's movies on Channel 13--my favorites: Smiles of a Summer Night--ahhhh!, The Seventh Seal, Through a Glass Darkly, Winter Light, and Sawdust and Tinsel.
--Rebecca